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Stephen Gottschalk
No full textDr. Gottschalk is the Chair of the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is a physician scientist, who is interested in hematopoietic cell transplantation and cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Gottschalk’s current research focuses on the development of cell-based immunotherapies for pediatric cancers. He is actively conducting investigator-initiated early phase clinical studies with conventional and genetically modified immune cells. In the laboratory, Dr. Gottschalk’s team of MD and PhD researchers is focused on overcoming current limitations of cell-based immunotherapies for cancer. For his contributions to the field of cell therapy he was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2015.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/kleinermanbios/1001/thumbnail.jp
David Loeb
No full textDr. David Loeb graduated from Johns Hopkins University and then moved to New York and obtained his MD and PhD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He returned to Johns Hopkins, where he completed his internship and residency in Pediatrics and his fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Dr. Loeb joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins, where he practiced and performed research for 17 years.
Dr. Loeb joined the faculty at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), where he serves as Director of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Cellular Therapy, in 2017. He is also a member of the Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Loeb has an active translational research laboratory focused on understanding bone tumor metastasis. His laboratory developed a clinically relevant mouse model of sarcoma metastasis and has used this model to perform preclinical testing of novel agents that can interfere with this process. Active areas of investigation include the involvement of Wnt signaling in bone sarcoma metastasis and targeting metabolic vulnerabilities of disseminated tumor cells. In addition, Dr. Loeb is also studying the role of an enzyme called RNA helicase DDX3 in Ewing’s Sarcoma biology, especially how this enzyme affects the repair of damaged DNA and modulates the response of the innate immune system to sarcomas.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/kleinermanbios/1000/thumbnail.jp
Interactive Poster Sessions
No full textRoom: 1 – Cancer Prevention. Moderator: Ruth Rechis, PhD
Room: 2 – Obesity. Moderator: Karen Basen-Engquist, PhD, MPH
Room: 3 – Care Delivery. Moderator: Charlotte Sun, DrPH, MPH
Room: 4 – Late Effects. Moderator: Anita Deswal, MD, MPH, MBB
Impact of a Goal of Care Communication Training Program for Oncology Clinical Staff
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Goals of care (GoC) refers to medical care decisions made by patients and families that are consistent with their personal values and preference choices. However, the oncology healthcare system does not always align with the patient’s GoC values and preferences. Clinical experts suggest formalized GoC education to improve this practice gap.Accordingly, MD Anderson Cancer Center implemented GoC training for front-line clinical staff using the evidence-based COMFORT Model to enhance the participants’ ability to have connected GoC conversations and enhance their comfort levels in responding to patients’ emotions. Our institution’s GoC education team compared the pretest and posttest survey responses of 1415 front-line practicing nurses, social workers, and chaplains participating in GoC training. This training program included 4 or 8 hours of online asynchronous training and a 3-hour live engagement session. A COMFORT Feedback Survey recorded the participants’ perceived ability to have connected conversations and comfort responding to patients’ emotions using a 5-point Likert-type scale (1 = very low, 2 = low, 3 = average, 4 = high, 5 = very high). Researchers used Qualtrics software to collect and score participant survey responses. The data were analyzed using Intellectus Statistics software to describe participant characteristics, calculate scaled survey variables of ability and comfort, and measure statistically significant differences (t-testing) between the pre- and posttest scores. The most frequently reported demographic features were age 40-49 years (27.63%), female gender (80.42%), Asian or Asian American ethnicity (61.13%), and inpatient area of practice (64.52%). The most frequently reported ability level was average (n = 562, 39.72%) before training and high (n = 709, 50.11%) after training. Likewise, the most frequently reported comfort level was average (n = 528, 37.31%) before training and high (n = 717, 50.67%) after training. The 2-tailed paired-samples t-test showed the differences for both variables to be statistically significant (P \u3c .001), underscoring the impact of the training program. These findings indicate that evidence-based GoC educational training equips oncology front-line clinical staff with the self-efficacy skills for effective GoC communication. However, more investigation is needed to understand how these findings affect practice application and implementation and institutional outcomes
Evaluating the Surface Dose Using Various Types of Bolus
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Enhancing Clinical Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and Care Coordination Through a Thoracic \u27Lunch and Learn\u27 Case Study Series
No full textThe implementation and impact of a thoracic \u27Lunch and Learn\u27 case study series co led by oncology nurse navigators and advanced practice providers to enhance novice ONN clinical knowledge, interdisciplinary collaboration, and care coordination.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/acif26/1002/thumbnail.jp
Enhancing Nurse Confidence in Triage Nursing
No full textThe aim of this project is to increase nurse self-reported confidence in triage nursing by 15 percent in a three-month period in the Thoracic Center.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/acif26/1007/thumbnail.jp