Transplant Nursing Conference 

    Registered attendees can earn over 15.0 nursing contact hours if all educational sessions are
    attended in their entirety.
 

   ONS is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses
   Credentialing Center
’s (ANCC’s) Commission on Accreditation.
 
   Accreditation as an ANCC provider refers only to its continuing education activities and does
   not imply endorsement of any commercial products.

 
   ONS is approved as a provider of continuing education by the California Board of Registered
   Nursing, Provider #2850.

 

FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 13

8:30 am
Welcome
Joyce Neumann, RN, MSN, AOCN
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
ONS BMSCT Special Interest Group Coordinator 

Opening Remarks 
Margaret Bevans, RN, PhD, AOCN; Rosemary Ford, RN, BSN, OCN;
and Kim Schmit-Pokorny, RN, MSN, OCN
Conference Co-Chairs

8:50 am
Transplantation:  You've Come a Long Way Baby!
Colleen Delaney, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

9:45 am
Oh, Those Virus . . . .
Theresa Latchford, RN, MSN
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California

11:00 am
Uncertainty and Caregiver Burden in Family Caregivers of HSCT Patients
Maggie Davitt Harris, PhD, CRNP
Lancaster General
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Noon
Luncheon Presentation:
Asking the Right Questions:  Taking Control of Your Future
Linda Tarrant
TOC Consulting
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

            
2:00 pm
Pulmonary Complications  
Cheryl Tompkins, RN, MSN
University of Pittsburgh 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

3:15 pm
Oral Abstract Session I 

5:00 pm
Adjourn

SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 14

8:30 am Breakfast Symposium
Evolving Strategy in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization and Collection:  The Nursing Perspective 
(Supported by a grant from Genzyme Corporation)

8:30 am
Transplant Immunology
Elaine DeMeyer, RN, MSN, AOCN
Creative Cancer Concepts, Inc.

9:30 am
BMSCT SIG Update
Joyce Neumann
ONS BMSCT Special Interest Group Coordinator

10:20 am
Acute GVHD:  Emerging Trends in Incidence, Treatment and Prevention
Claudio Anasetti, MD, and Sarah Thirwell, RN, MS, MS(A), CHPN, OCN
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida

Noon
Networking Luncheon
  
1:30 pm
Hot Topics in HSCT Nursing:  What Is your Practice?  
Facilitator:  
   Nonnikaye Shelburne, RN, MS, AOCN
   National Institutes of Health
   Bethesda, Maryland

Panelists:
   Seth Eisenberg
   Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
   Seattle, Washington

   Mairead Ni Chonghaile
   European Group on Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)

   Elaine Stenstrup, RN, MSN, ACNS-BC
   University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
   Minneapolis, Minnesota

2:30 pm
Roundtable Sessions

3:15 pm
Roundtable Discussions (Repeat)

4:00 pm
Adjourn

6:30 pm
Poster Session II

SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 15

8:30 am
Emerging Trends in Cellular Therapies
Richard Champlin, MD
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

   
9:30 am

Stem Cell Survivorship:  Searching for a Solution to Our Success
Richard Boyajian, RN, NP
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

10:30 am – Breakout Sessions
Stem Cell Transplantation for Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia:  Who Are the Appropriate Candidates?
Mitchell Horwitz, MD, and Martha Lassiter, MSN, OCN
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Non-Malignant Indications for Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Ann Haight, MD, and Ellen Olsen, RN, MS, CPNP
Emory University Department of Pediatrics
Atlanta, Georgia

12:15 pm
Lunch and Oral Abstract Session II

2:15 pm
Closing Remarks and Evaluations

2:20 pm
Adjourn