Pediatric Oncology Shared Care Education Day
Date: February 17, 2010
Time: 11:30 am - 4:00 pm
Location: POGO Office, 480 University Ave, Suite 1014, Toronto, ON
POGO is committed to providing ongoing education and discussion opportunities as part of the provincial satellite program. POGO sponsored the SickKids Pediatric Oncology Shared Care Education Day on February 17, 2010. The topics and speakers were determined by representatives from SickKids, POGO and its satellite partner sites. This education day targeted pediatricians and lead nursing staff at the POGO provincial pediatric oncology satellite centres. A record number of pediatricians attended from our satellite centres.
The day provided opportunities for tertiary and satellite centre staff to network, to discuss common clinical issues and challenges and to contribute to the identification of future educational opportunities and priorities.
Topics addressed included: Clinical management of fever and neutropenia, parenteral nutrition support, pain management, and ALL (acute lymphocytic leukemia) protocols and dose adjustment during the maintenance phase of therapy for ALL.
For speaker synopsis and bios please refer below. If you are interested in their presentations or if you have comments or suggestions for future education events, please forward an email to Clara Jordan at cjordan@pogo.ca
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FEVER IN ONCOLOGY PATIENTS: CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES The focus of the talk will be reviewing a variety of principles in the treatment and assessment of fever and febrile neutropenia in Pediatric Oncology. This will be facilitated by a variety of cases and look to include an 'update' on recent changes in approach to anti-biotic therapy and discuss some of the 'controversies' in the area. Speaker Bio Paul Gibson is in his 3rd year of fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at Sick Kids, having trained in pediatrics at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver. He’s currently covering the solid tumour practice of Dr. Abha Gupta and will be leaving Sick Kids in the fall to take a full time job as a staff oncologist at Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, London. |
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PARENTERAL NUTRITION This presentation will review indications for initiation of TPN, how much TPN to give and when to wean a pediatric oncology patient off of TPN. Common challenges including: What to do about a patient or family who asks for TPN, and how to meet the needs of patients who require TPN following each cycle of treatment are also explored. Speaker Bio Mary Barron has been a clinical dietitian at The Hospital for Sick Children for the last 19 years. Started at SickKids on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, then worked on the in-patient oncology ward and now works full-time in the Haematology/Oncology out-patient clinic. She wrote the TPN guidelines for the Provincial Pediatric Oncology Satellite Program: A Blueprint for Service. Areas of interest include Gtube feeding in oncology patients, severe malnutrition and infants with cancer. |
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PAIN CONTROL IN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY This presentation will cover pain management in the pediatric oncology population with specific focus on palliation. Speaker Bio Jocelyne Volpe has been an Pediatric Oncology Nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children for the last 17 years in both the Inpatient and Outpatient Settings. More recently, she has been a Nurse Practitioner within this program since graduating from the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Child Stream at the University of Toronto in 2002. Within the In-Patient Program, she provides collaborative and comprehensive care to medically and psychosocial complex children who have been diagnosed with Cancer, and their families. Jocelyne’s research interests include supportive care; palliative and end of life care; pain and symptom management, as well as staff development. She embraces any opportunity to share her experiences and knowledge at various local, provincial, national and international forums, as well as with all her multi-disciplinary colleagues at SickKids, the many Graduate students that she precepts, and lectures to at the University of Toronto Bloomberg School of Nursing. |
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MANAGEMENT OF MAINTENANCE ALL THERAPY Maintenance therapy makes up the bulk of treatment for ALL. This session will use a case-based approach to review the common toxicities of the medications used during maintenance therapy and the recommendations for management of these toxicities, including dosage modifications of chemotherapy. Speaker Bios Angela Punnett completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at McMaster University and her medical degree at the University of Toronto. She moved to Ann Arbor to the University of Michigan for her paediatric residency and returned to Toronto to complete her fellowship in Paediatric Haematology Oncology at SickKids. She has continued on at SickKids as a staff physician and is currently the director of the training program there. Angela's clinical focus is in paediatric leukemia/lymphoma. She is active in a number of local and national educational committees for paediatric haematology oncology and teaches at the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education levels. Tracey Taylor is a Pharmacist at SickKids. Member of the haematology / oncology program for 16 years – primary site of practice for the past 10 years has been the outpatient setting. |
