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8th Annual Chicago Supportive Oncology Conference

October 26-27, 2012

Hotel InterContinental
Chicago, Illinois

Conference Sessions

 

 

Friday October 26, 2012

Chair: Jamie H.Von Roenn, MD; Co-chairs Michael J. Fisch, MD, MPH

and Debra Barton, PhD, RN

7:00AM

Registration and Breakfast

8:00AM

Opening remarks

Jamie H. Von Roenn, MD

8:10AM

Plenary: Model of integration

Deborah Dudgeon, MD

8:50AM

Question and Answer

9:00AM

Oncology and Palliative Care for Solid Tumors

Toby Campbell, MD

9:30AM

How to Talk to Patients About the Cost of Care

Anthony Back, MD

10:00AM

Question and Answer

10:30AM

Break: Visit Exhibits

11:00AM

Lessons Learned from ENABLE

Marie Bakitas, DNSc, APRN, AOCN, FAAN

11:30AM

ASCO Palliative Care Integration

12:00PM

The Economics of Integrated Palliative Care in Oncology

Thomas J Smith, MD

12:30PM

Question and Answer

12:45PM

Lunch on Your Own/Lunch Break

1:45PM

Plenary: What Every MD Should Know About

Talking to Patients

Anthony Back, MD

2:20PM

Interface of Principles of Palliative Care with EMR

Susan Block, MD

2:50PM

How Do You Measure the Quality of Palliative Care

Sydney E. Morss Dy, MD, MSc

3:20PM

Question and Answer

3:30PM

Break

3:45AM

Dyspnea

Deborah Dudgeon, MD

4:15PM

Early Management of Nausea and Vomiting

Steven M. Grunberg, MD

4:45PM

Pain Management: New Developments

Judith A Paice, MD

5:15PM

Question and Answer

Saturday October 27, 2012

7:00AM

Continental Breakfast / Exhibits/Poster Viewing

7:55AM

Welcome Back

8:00AM

Plenary: Personal Views of a Care Giver

Jamie H. Von Roenn, MD

8:30AM

Question and Answer

8:45AM

The Pathophysiology of Chemotherapy- induced Neuropathy

Gary Bennett, MD

9:00AM

Treatment of Chemotherapy-induced Neuropathy

Ellen L Smith, PhD, APRN, AOCN

9:30AM

What's New with Cognitive Dysfunction

Patricia Ganz, MD

10:00AM

Cognitive Function: Results from the Tailor Rx Study

Lynne Wagner PhD

10:30AM

Question and Answer

10:45AM

Break: Visit Exhibits

11:15AM

The Pathophysiology of Treatment-related Mucositis

Stephen T Sonis, DMD, DMSc

11:45AM

Guidelines for Therapy in the Treatment of Mucositis

Douglas E Peterson, DMD, PhD

12:15AM

Question and Answer

12:30AM

Lunch on Your Own

1:15PM

Cachexia

Eduardo Bruera, MD

1:45PM

Co-Morbidities and Cancer

Michael Fisch, MD, MPH

2:15PM

ASCO Update

Debra Barton, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN

2:45PM

Question and Answer

3:00PM

SESSION ENDS SEE YOU in 2013