TENTATIVE AGENDA
| Day/Time | FACULTY | |
| THURSDAY, October 7, 2010 – APAO's Best of ASCO® Conference* | ||
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast/Exhibits | |
| 8:00 am - 8:15 am | Welcome and Course Overview | Dave Johnson, PA-C Heather Hylton, PA-C |
| 8:15 am - 9:15 am | 2010 Breast Cancer Highlights | Nazanin Khakpour, MD |
| 9:15 am - 10:15 am | 2010 ASCO Highlights in GI Malignancies | JJ Mahany, Jr., PA-C |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break/Exhibits | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Updates in Lung Cancer | George Blumenschein, MD |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch/The Economics of Physician
Assistant & Nurse Practitioner Utilization (Powe) and Your Mother Was Wrong - Words can Definitely Hurt You: How Documentation Affects Clinical Quality Measures and Reimbursement (Gustafson) |
Michael Powe, VP, AAPA Mark Gustafson, MD |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Patient & Survivor Care | M. Alma Rodriguez, MD, FACP |
| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Highlights on Hematologic Malignancies | TBA |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Break/Exhibits | |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | What’s New in Genitourinary Cancer | Jeri Kim, MD |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Head and Neck Cancer Updates | Victoria Villaflor, MD |
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| FRIDAY, October 8, 2010 - The 13th Annual APAO Conference | ||
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast/Exhibits | |
| 8:15 am - 9:15 am | Keynote Address: Oncology Health Care Trends |
Thomas Burke, MD |
| 9:15 am - 10:15 am | Surgical Management in the Treatment of Kidney Cancer |
Reena Cherry, PA-C |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break/Exhibits | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Novel Therapies for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia |
Bruno Medeiros, MD Julia Kamp, PA-C |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Early Stage Breast Cancer |
Nazanin Khakpour, MD |
| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Managing Hypercoagulable States | Alexander Duncan, MD, ChB |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Break/Exhibits | |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Updates on Melanoma & Isolated Limb Perfusion |
Ricardo Gonzalez, MD Chris Puleo, PA-C |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | My Journey in the land of Small Tumors: An Update in Neuroendocrine Tumors |
Larry Kvols, MD |
| 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Welcome Reception | Courtyard |
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| FRIDAY, October 8, 2010 - Concurrent Morning Workshop: End Of Life Care | ||
| 9:30 am - 10:15 am | Conveying Difficult News with with Compassion, Confidence & Skill |
Ione Townsend, ARNP |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break/Exhibits | |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Maintaining Hope at the End of Life | Jane DeLima Thomas, MD |
| 11:15 am - 12:00 pm | Healthcare Provider Burnout: Strategies for Maintaining Balance |
Ian Nagus, PA-C |
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| FRIDAY, October 8, 2010 - Concurrent Afternoon Workshop:Advanced Practice Professionals in Research |
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Basic Principles of Practical Literature Review |
Glenn Forister, PA-C |
| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Writing a Reviewer-Friendly Grant Application |
William Hendricson, MA, MS |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Break/Exhibits | |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Developing the Research Question into a Research Method |
Roderick Hooker, PhD, PA |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Speak Easy: An Approach to Public Speaking |
Shannon Holloway, PA-C Robyn Winters, MA |
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| SATURDAY, October 9, 2010 - The 13th Annual APAO Conference | ||
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast/Exhibits | |
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | APAO Membership Meeting | APAO Officers and Members |
| 8:30 am - 9:30 am | Recent Updates in the Management of Patients with Advanced Colorectal Cancer |
Chris Garrett, MD |
| 9:30 am -10:30 am | Advanced Treatments in Metastatic Bone Disease |
G. Douglas Letson, MD |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break/Exhibits | |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Managing B-Cell Lymphomas | Eduardo Sotomayor, MD |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Imaging in Oncology: Fundamental Concepts |
Mark Kransdorf, MD |
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| SATURDAY, October 9, 2010 - Concurrent Sessions | ||
| 8:30 am - 9:30 am | Interventional Pain Management - Current Perspectives |
Sanjeet Narang, MD |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Management of Fever & Neutropenia 2010 | Sarah Hammond, MD |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break/Exhibits | |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Trends in Supportive Care | Suresh Reddy, MD |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Prevention & Early Detection of Oncologic Emergencies: What Every Advanced Practice Professional Working with Cancer Patients Should Know |
Maura Polansky, PA-C |
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| SUNDAY, October 10 - The 13th Annual Conference | ||
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast/Exhibits | |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Molecular-Targeted Cancer Therapy | Richard Jove, PhD |
| 9:00 am -10:00 am | Updates in Multiple Myeloma | Jacob Laubach, MD |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Break/Exhibits | |
| 10:15 am - 11:15 am | Lung Cancer 2010 | John Ruckdeschel, MD |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Bladder Cancer Updates | William Oh, MD |
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*A program licensed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology® 