In this special issue of JADPRO, we highlight important takeaways for advanced practitioners from the educational sessions presented at our annual meeting, JADPRO Live.
JADPRO Live Virtual kicked off with the opening panel on advanced practitioner leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group discussed their institutional emergency protocols, how they leveraged advanced practitioners (APs) to provi...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Conference Chair Laura J. Zitella, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, AOCN®, spoke with Tatiana M. Prowell, MD, about overcoming implicit bias, the power of language, and creating a culture of respect in oncology for both ...
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Jason Astrin, DMSc, MBA, PA-C, DFAAPA, defined the concepts of productivity and value and discussed strategies for measuring the value of oncology advanced practitioners in order to recognize advanced practit...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Andrew S. Guinigundo, MSN, RN, CNP, ANP-BC, provided guidance to advanced practitioners on creating their elevator pitch and communicating their role.
Cardio-oncology is a rapidly emerging field, and advanced practitioners (APs) play key roles in the prevention, early detection, and optimal treatment of cardiotoxicities associated with cancer therapies. At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Jes...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Lorena A. Wright, MD, FACE, reviewed the principles of antihyperglycemic management and discussed the importance of working as a team to collaborate in the management of patients with cancer.
During the JADPRO Live Virtual 2020 conference, Val R. Adams, PharmD, FCCP, FHOPA, BCOP, discussed how to determine which patients with cancer should be treated with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), the similarities and differences be...
During the 2020 JADPRO Live Virtual conference, Laura J. Zitella, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, AOCN®, educated the audience on the most important causes of thrombocytopenia in hospitalized patients and diagnostic approaches to employ.
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Veena Shankaran, MD, MS, reviewed data around the prevalence and risk factors for financial toxicity, discussed potential downstream consequences of financial toxicity in cancer care, and outlined four key st...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Kirollos S. Hanna, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP, updated the audience on the pharmacology, new indications, and the clinical trial data of novel medications as well as expanded indications in solid tumors. Dr. Hann...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Heidi D. Finnes, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, discussed the pharmacology and indications of medications approved from late 2019 to late 2020 for the management of patients with hematologic malignancies, reviewed ...
The popular Biomarker Jeopardy session returned this year at JADPRO Live 2020. Sandra E. Kurtin, PhD, ANP-C, AOCN®, led the session, and was joined by Alyssa Henglefelt, PharmD, BCOP, and Allyson Price, PA-C. Using a Jeopardy format, the...
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Lisa Kottschade, APRN, MSN, CNP, highlighted considerations for advanced practitioners on the recognition and monitoring of rare and life-threatening immune-related adverse events (irAEs), as well as strategi...
JADPRO Live 2020 was honored to have Dr. Richard Pazdur, the Director of the Oncology Center of Excellence at the FDA, discuss recent changes to oncology drug development and the approval process, the roles of the advanced practitioner i...
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Brenda Martone, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP®, discussed treatment options available for advanced prostate cancer patients and the role of genetics and genomics in patients with advanced prostate cancer.
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Rasheda Persinger, AGNP-C, explained the current lung cancer treatment landscape, including targeted therapies for EGFR and ALK rearrangements, as well as for BRAF, ROS1, NTRK, RET, MET, and KRAS mutations, a...
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Casey Fazer-Posorske, PA-C, provided updates in the management of patients with head and neck cancer, including the types of head and neck cancers, their associated treatments and side-effect management, the ...
The treatment landscape of hepatocellular cancer has changed significantly within the past few years. At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Bridget O’Brien, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AOCNP®, provided an overview of developments in hepatocellular cancer ...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Kristen O’Hagan, ANP-BC, MS, AOCNP®, provided an overview of rare gastrointestinal tumors, their presentation, and current treatment algorithms. Ms. O’Hagan also discussed the advanced practitioner’s role...
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Kathleen Burns, AGACNP-BC, OCN®, discussed strategies to track and treat symptoms associated with combination therapies for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma.
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Cissimol Joseph, APRN, AOCNP®, and Prachee Singh, PA-C, MS, highlighted the clinical features and diagnostic workup of soft-tissue sarcoma and presented on a multidisciplinary approach to treatment planni...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Sandra Kurtin, PhD, ANP-C, AOCN®, described personalization of the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) using molecular attributes of the disease, as well as patient characteristics. Dr. Kurtin...
At JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Beth Faiman, PhD, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, AOCN®, FAAN, and Tiffany Richards, PhD, ANP-BC, AOCNP®, differentiated between AL and ATTR amyloidosis, discussed key considerations in selecting therapy, and identified wa...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Maritza Alencar, DNP, MBA, APRN-BC, BMTCN, described advances in the management and prevention of infectious disease complications and graft-vs.-host disease following transplant. Dr. Alencar also emphasi...
During JADPRO Live Virtual 2020, Ravi Krishnadasan, MD, FACP, provided an overview of the terminology of hemolysis, laboratory tests used in the diagnosis of hemolytic anemias, and appropriate indications for treatment of the various hem...
