Transplant Nursing Conference 

ONS provides up to 19 continuing nursing education (CNE) credits for the Transplant Nursing conference during the BMT Tandem Meetings. 
 

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 ONS continuing education activities and does
not imply endorsement of any products.
 
 
ONS is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of
Registered Nursing, Provider #2850.

 

FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 26

8:30 am - 8:45 am
Welcome
Joyce Neumann, RN, MSN, AOCN
MD Anderson Cancer Center
ONS BMSCT Special Interest Group Coordinator

Opening Remarks 
Margaret Bevans, RN, PhD, AOCN and Rosemary Ford, RN, BSN, OCN
Conference Co-Chairs

8:45 am - 9:45 am
Cellular Therapy:  Beyond the Initial Infusion
Katarina LeBlanc, MD
Karolinska Institute
Solna, Sweden

9:45 am - 11:00 am
Complicated Bacterial Infections in Transplantation
Stacy Martin, RN, BSN, CIC
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida

11:00 am - Noon
Social Issues that Complicate Recovery
Beverly Lavendar, MSW
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Noon - 2:00 pm
Luncheon Presentation:
Dancing With the Enemy:  Letting the Good Outweigh the Bad
Meg Brown
Motivational Speaker, Author, Teacher and Survivor
Austin, Texas

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Role of Co-Morbidities Across HSCT Populations
Mohamed Sorror, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 
Seattle, Washington

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Oral Abstract Session 1
Topics:
-Healthy Lifestyles may Improve Transplant Caregiver Outcomes
-Preventing Fall Related Injuries in Hematopoeitic Stem Cell Transplant Patients: An Evidence
 Based Approach
-Measuring and Addressing Distress in the Stem Cell Patient
-A Novel Approach to Benchmarking Medication Errors in Pediatric Transplant Centers
-Case Control Study of Levetiracetam vs. Fosphenytoin for Seizure Prophylaxis in Children
 Receiving Busulfan (BU) for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)
-
Beyond Nausea & Vomiting: Monitoring Less Common Reactions to High Dose BCNU

5:00 pm
Adjourn

SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 27

8:30 am - 9:30 am
HLA Typing in the 21st Century
Dennis Confer, MD
National Marrow Donor Program
Minneapolis, Minnesota

9:30 am - 10:20 am
BMSCT SIG Update
Joyce Neumann, RN, MSN, AOCN
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

10:20 am - Noon
Panel Discussion:  Hot Topics in HSCT
Facilitator:  Nonniekaye Shelbure, RN, MS, AOCN
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Panel speakers and topics to be discussed:
Larry Foster, PhD – Psychosocial Risk Factors
Angela Johns, RN – Steroid Induced Hyperglycemia
Lenise Taylor, RN AOCNS
Caring for the ICU Patient on the BMT Unit

Noon - 1:30 pm
Networking Luncheon
  
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Halpo HSCT:  Current Practices and Future Applications  
Ephraim Fuchs, MD, MBA
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, Maryland

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Roundtable Discussions
Topics:
-Glucose control in HSCT
-Psychosocial screening of HSCT recipients
-ICU beds in the HSCT unit
-Sleep disturbances in HSCT patients
-Reducing Medication Errors
-HSCT inpatient acuity tool
-Nursing Orientation Programs
-Patient Satisfaction in Outpatient setting
-Compassion Fatigue in Health Care Workers
-
Blood Stream Infection Reduction

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Roundtable Discussions (Repeat)

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Poster Session

SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 28

8:30 am - 9:15 pm
Chronic GVHD:  Breakthroughs and Novel Therapies
Stephany Rodriquez, RN, NP
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
   
9:15 am - 10:30 am

Fatigue Management in HSCT:  Moving the Evidence Into Practice
Sandra Mitchell, CRNP, PhD, AOCN
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

10:30 am - Noon – Breakout Sessions
Adult - Transplant for Auto-Immune Diseases
Richard Burt, MD and Kimberly Yaung, RN
Northwestern University Hospital
Chicago, Illinois

Pediatrics - HSCT in Sickle Cell Anemia
Mark Walters, MD and Nancy Noonan, RN, MS, CNS
Children's Hospital and Research
Oakland, California

Noon - 2:00 pm
Lunch and Oral Abstract Session 2
Topics:
-Reduced Intensity Stem Cell Transplantation (RIT) in an Ambulatory Setting for Children with
 Severe Primary
-Sleep Disturbances in Hospitalized Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) Patients
-Use of an Education Intervention in Improving Blood Glucose Management in Patients Undergoing
 Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT)
-Creating a Valid and Reliable BMT Inpatient Acuity Tool that Reflects Current BMT Nursing
 
Practice and Workload
-Motivated and Moving: A Multidisciplinary Initiative to Increase Patient Participation in Physical
 Activity

2:00 pm - 2:05 pm
Closing Remarks and Evaluations

2:05 pm
Adjourn