25th Cancer Nursing & Nurse Practitioners Conference July 17-18, 2017 Lisbon, Portugal

Michael Keng received his BS and MD degrees from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, and Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He then joined the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia) in 2014. He currently holds a faculty appointment in Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at University of Virginia. He is the medical director of the inpatient hematology and oncology unit and quality director of the division. His clinical areas of interest are focused on clinical trials in hematologic malignancies, including myelodysplastic syndromes, leukemia, and other myeloid malignancies and bone marrow failures. He has a special interest in treating the elderly population, determining optimal combinations and timing of targeted agents, and studying patient safety and quality improvement.

Myelodysplastic syndromes, leukemia, myeloid malignancies and bone marrow failures.

Tatiana Massarrah obtained her Degree in Nursing from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Salus Infirmorum Nursing School 1991. Her professional career has developed as a clinical nurse in the Oncology Department, in its various areas, Medical Oncology, Paliattive Care and Oncohematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation. Stay at the Nebraska Medical Center Omaha (USA) in 2008, participating in an Observership Exchange Program between the Ministry of Health of the Madrid Autonomic Community and the NMC at the Oncology Department In 2008. Currently she coordinates the Oncology Research Unit at the Medical Oncology Department. Advisory and training patients in drugs side effects, adverse events management and care is the area of her job development as part of the clinical research unit team. She also carries out his professional profile teaching other professionals who work in this field and area of expertise.

Oncology, medical oncology, Paliattive care and Oncohematology, bone marrow transplantation.

As an Oncology and Hematology Clinical Nurse Specialist, I have responsibilities at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System level. I serve as the nurse leader overseeing the content and development of policies related to safe handling, chemotherapy and biotherapy, and vascular access devices (VADs). I chair the Hospital's inter professional vascular access committee. In this role, I am responsible for ensuring that evidence-based practice is used throughout the Institution to guide all aspects of VAD insertion and maintenance to prevent complications, including central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs). Nationally, I am an active member of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS). I am co-editor of the ONS Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Guidelines (in press, 2017) and co-editor for the ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (2014), which has sold over 97,000 copies. These publications are internationally used by nurses to guide evidence-based practice. I serve on the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and ONS Chemotherapy Safety Standards Workgroup (2016). These guidelines and standards are extensively used by health care providers who prescribe, dispense, and administer chemotherapy in the U.S and internationally. Additionally, I have presented both nationally and internationally, on the topic of safe handling of hazardous drugs.

Drugs,chemotherapy,clinical oncolog..

Dr. David Vance is a psychologist studying cognitive remediation in breast cancer survivors, older adults, and HIV. Dr. Vance has +190 peer-reviewed publications, mostly in cognition and cognitive interventions. He received a White House invitation to attend the first forum on aging with HIV and has participated as an invited member of the USA National Institutes of Health Think Tank – Working Group on HIV and Aging. In 2016, he was awarded a $2.86 million grant from the USA National Institute of Mental Health titled, “An RCT of Speed of Processing Training in Middle-Aged and Older Adults with HIV.”

HIV, breast cancer, mental health.

AyÅŸe Koyun has completed her PhD at the age of 31 years from Department of Obstetrics and Ggynecology Nursing, Hacettepe University, Turkey. She is asistant professor of Afyon Kocatepe University. She has published more than 15 papers in international and national journals. She has presented more than 40 reports national and international congresses.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing.

Mariana Boulitreau Siqueira Campos Barros holds a Bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Pernambuco (2008), specialization in management in public health from the University of Pernambuco (2010), Multiprofessional Residency in family health (2012) by the Institute for Integral Medicine Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP), a master's degree in public health at the graduate program in public health at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Acts as Assistant Professor in public health at Federal University of Pernambuco as well as research assistant and development project network of Telehealth centers-RedeNUTES.

Telehealth,children and adolescents.

Florminda B Tejano is a licensed Midwife Practitioner in the Philippines. She finished her Doctor in Public Administration in 1999 at Cebu Normal College, Philippines and Doctor of Philosophy in Education in 2008 at Father Saturnino Urios University, Philippines. Currently, she is teaching graduate and post-graduate students and has helped in their unpublished thesis/dissertations research writings. She is also teaching in the school of midwifery. She has retired from the government service working with the Department of Health as Chief Administrative Officer. She is now the Hospital Administrator of Holy Child Colleges of Butuan Hospital.

Healthcare

Im young and power full specialist, Im children nurse practitioner in Children university hospital Oncology department. I have been working there for 4 years and every day I work there I feel urge to improve patient care and life quality. During studies and my short but very interesting job experience I have been part of project “Equal opportunities for health, action for development”. Summer schools “Understanding and Responding to Pharmaceutical promotion”, “European summer school on health law and bioethics, Riga”, “Affordable Access to Needed Medicines and Their Rational Use in Europe”. Also I have participated in conferences “RSU Red Cross medical college – Research in Study Process”, “25th European Students Conference Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin”, “Riga Stradiņš University Student International Conference “Health and Social Sciences”. Not stopping my education, and continuing to grow in my professional field hoping that one day I could lead great team for best interests of patients.

Pediatrics, Healthcare, Nursing

Dr. Alhelih has completed his PhD in Palliative Care . He is Assistant Professor and Senior Investgator at King Saud University. He is a Fellow of many International Cancer Research Institutions and Asociations. He has published many papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Palliative care, cancer.

Donglu Shi received his Ph. D in engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Upon graduation, he worked at Argonne National Laboratory for 8 years as a staff scientist carrying out research in the field of electronic Materials. He is currently the Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering program at University of Cincinnati. He is also an Adjunct professor at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Nano Science at Tongji School of Medicine. Dr. Donglu Shi has published 270 SCI papers with an h-index of 46.

Biomedical, nano science.

Dr. Christian Ntizimira is the Head of Advocacy & Research department of Rwanda Palliative Care & Hospice Organisation (RPCHO) and Former Director of Kibagabaga District Hospital in Kigali (2010-2013). A Palliative Care Expert and Educator, Dr. Ntizimira pioneered integration of end of life care into health services rendered to Rwandan patients with chronic illnesses in acute care and community settings. Through his program, more than 1500 health care providers and community health workers have learned the principles of cancer & palliative care leading to a five-fold increase in prescription of morphine, an essential pain medication. Dr. Ntizimira has published on the subjects of palliative care and health systems in notable academic journals, including the Lancet, the online palliative care resource for health professionals, www.ehospice.com, and in Rwanda’s top English daily newspaper, the New Times. Dr. Ntizimira serves on the Rwandan Ministry of Health Non Communicable Diseases Synergies Group and the National Palliative Care Policy Group. He was a 2013-2015 Palliative Medicine Fellow at the McConnell Heart Health Center Homereach Hospice in Columbus, Ohio and 2014- 2015 African Pain Policy Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pain & Policy Studies Group/World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Pain Policy in Palliative Care. Dr. Ntizimira is a Researcher collaborator at Harvard Global Equity Initiative - Lancet Commission on Global Access to Pain Control and Palliative Care (GAPPCP). He is a 2015-2017 African Cancer Leaders Institute Fellow and member of the African Organisation for Research & Training in Cancer (AORTIC). Dr. Ntizimira holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the National University of Rwanda and received his palliative medicine training at Harvard Medical School.

Healthcare, Nursing,