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Daily Schedule

Pre-Symposium

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

12:00-2:00 PM   Pre-Symposium Registration
1:00-2:00 PM   Preserving Sexuality in Women with Gynecologic Cancer
Stacy Lindau, MD
2:00-2:10 PM   Questions & Answers
2:10-3:10 PM   Pain Management and End of Life
Amy Frazier, RN, MSN
3:10-3:20 PM   Questions & Answers
3:20-3:30 PM   Break
3:30-5:00 PM   “What is a good death?”
Eytan Smuilowicz, MD
4:45-5:45 PM   Symposium Registration
5:15-6:15 PM   Opening Reception

Keynote Address

6:30-8:00 PM   “Fingerprints” The Art of the Exceptional Professional Performance
Selinza Mitchell, RN, BSN

Main Symposium

Thursday, April 4, 2013

7:00-8:00 AM   Registration/Breakfast
7:00-5:00 PM   Exhibits Open
8:00-8:45 AM   Relationship-Based Care: The Influence of Feminism on Professional Nursing
Randy E. Gross, WHNP-BC, ACNS-BC, AOCNP
8:45-8:55 AM   Questions & Answers
8:55-9:40 AM   Nurse Navigation in Gyn-Oncology: Making a Difference
Colleen McGuire, RN, MSN
9:40-9:50 AM   Questions & Answers
9:50-10:05 AM   Break
10:05-10:50 AM   Facing the Fear - Reframing Life and Death
Nancy Eberhard, M.Div.
10:50-11:00 AM   Questions & Answers
11:00-11:45 AM   The Use of Palliative Care in the Hospital Setting
Allison Wegener-Flack, RN
11:45-11:55 AM   Questions & Answers
12:00-1:00 PM   Lunch & Business Meeting
1:00-1:45 PM   Overview of Radiation Therapy in the Gynecologic Oncology Setting
William Small, MD
1:45-1:55 PM   Questions & Answers
1:55-2:10 PM   Break
2:10-2:55 PM   Uterine Sarcoma: A Review of a Rare Disease
Catherine O’Flaherty, RN, BSN, OCN
2:55-3:05 PM   Questions & Answers
3:05-3:50 PM   Managing Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Robin Bettman, PharmD
3:50-4:00 PM   Questions & Answers
4:00-6:00 PM   Board Meeting
6:00-7:00 PM   Social Hour (Meet & Greet with the Board)

Friday, April 5, 2013

7:00-8:20 AM   Registration/Breakfast
7:00-5:00 PM   Exhibits Open
8:30-9:15 AM   Vitamins: To Supplement or Not? That is the Question
Robin Bettman, PharmD
9:15-9:25 AM   Questions & Answers
9:25-10:10 AM   Targeted Therapies and Biomarkers in Gynecologic Malignancies
Diane Yamada, MD
10:10-10:20 AM   Questions & Answers
10:20-10:35 AM   Break
10:35-11:20 AM   Oncofertility: What, Why and How!
Sharon Schwartz, MSN, CRNP
11:20-11:30 AM   Questions & Answers
11:30-12:15 PM   PAULA MAJOR LECTURESHIP
The Challenges of Caring for a Patient with Multiple Sclerosis
Who Has a New Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer
Tracy Sharp, RN and Lois A Winkelman RN, MS
12:15-12:25 PM   Questions & Answers
12:25-2:00 PM   Roundtable Discussion & Lunch
    Discharge Planning after Vaginal Brachytherapy
Carol Prone, RN, BSN
    Ovarian Cancer Treatment: A Roundtable Discussion
Robin Bettman, PharmD
    Teaching Strategies + Patient Understanding = Success!
Amy Brown, RN, OCN
    Why Participate in Phase 1 Clinical Trials?
Chrisann Winslow, RN, MSN, AOCN
    Helping the Gynecological Cancer Patient Live a Healthy and
Inspired Life - The Creation of a Charity
Amy Gundelach, RN, BSN
    Compassion Fatigue and the Gynecology Oncology Nurse: Am I at Risk?
Erica Lumpkin, RN, MSN, OCN
    Safe Handling of Chemotherapeutic Agents
Judy Dynan, RN and Helen-Lori Maclellan, RN
    Instilling Hope through Spiritual Holism
Florence O’Brien-Elliston, RN
    Use of Healing Touch in Gyn-Oncology Patients to Improve Care
Tina Raylea, MS-NP, MBA, CRRN, NE-BC
    Do we need “IM” injections in Nursing?
Emily Bellard, RN, MSN, OCN
2:00-2:45 PM   Oncofertility
David Cohen, MD
2:45-2:55 PM   Questions & Answers
2: 55-3:40 PM   Cancer & Pregnancy
Andrea Milbourne, MD
3:40-3:50 PM   Questions & Answers

Saturday, April 6, 2013

7:00-8:00 AM   Breakfast
7:00-12:00 PM   Exhibits Open
8:00-8:45 AM   The Sacred Experience of Grief and Mourning
Amy Brown, RN, BSN
8:45-8:55 AM   Questions & Answers
8:55-9:40 AM   Lean in Nursing, It Can Be Done
Heather Neagle, RN
Tina Raylea, MS-NP, MBA, CRRN, NE-BC
9:40-9:50 AM   Questions & Answers
9:50-10:35 AM   Putting Food to Work: A Discussion of Nutrition During and After Cancer Treatment
Virginia Nothnagel, MS, RD, LDN, CSO
Kindra Peterson, MS, RD, LDN
10:35-10:45 AM   Questions & Answers
10:45-11:30 AM   Evaluations and CEU Forms (No late evaluation/CEU forms will be accepted)
NOTE: This continuing nursing education activity was approved for 22.32 contact hours by the Oncology Nursing Society, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The hours are distributed as follows:

April 3, 2013 Pre-symposium 3.83 hours
April 3, 2013 Symposium 1.5 hours
April 4, 2013 Symposium 6.41 hours
April 5, 2013 Symposium 7.08 hours
April 6, 2013 Symposium 3.5 hours