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Enhancing Immune Thrombocytopenia Education and Support: Insights From a Learning Exchange Program

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare autoimmune disorder resulting in reduced platelet count. This quality improvement study facilitated conversations between health-care providers, adult patients, and caregivers of pediatric patients to characterize key needs in the management of chronic ITP.

Michael Tarantino David Dubinski Corey Falcon Leslie Ferber Patrick Foy Stephanie Johnston AOCNP Susan Kirk Michele P. Lambert Farishta Manzoor Vlad Radulescu Iberia Romina Sosa Porcher Scott

March 9, 2026 Online First (2026) https://doi.org/10.6004/jadpro.2026.17.7.7

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Table of Contents Archive

Michael Tarantino

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia

Bio: Michael Tarantino, MD, is an author of a JADPRO quality improvement study focused on chronic immune thrombocytopenia education and support. His work in the provided article addresses patient, caregiver, and health-care provider needs in chronic ITP management, including self-advocacy, shared decision-making, support resources, evolving treatment options, and mental health support.

David Dubinski

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia education and support

Bio: David Dubinski, MBA, is an author of work focused on improving education, communication, support resources, self-advocacy, and shared decision-making for patients, caregivers, and health-care providers managing chronic immune thrombocytopenia.

Corey Falcon

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia education and support

Bio: Corey Falcon, MD, is a coauthor of work focused on improving education, communication, shared decision-making, and support resources for people affected by chronic immune thrombocytopenia. Falcon contributed to a quality improvement Learning Exchange program involving health-care providers, adult patients, and caregivers of pediatric patients, identifying priorities including patient self-advocacy, shared decision-making, evolving treatment education, and mental health support in chronic ITP management.

Leslie Ferber

Specialties: Public health and patient education

Bio: Leslie Ferber, MPH, is an author of work focused on patient education and support needs in chronic immune thrombocytopenia, including quality improvement research examining communication, shared decision-making, self-advocacy, and support resources for patients, caregivers, and health-care providers. Ferber’s published work also includes public health research on factors affecting suicide risk among rural adults in the United States and earlier research related to diagnostic methods in vaginitis.

Patrick Foy

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia education and support

Bio: Patrick Foy, MD, is a physician author on a JADPRO quality improvement study examining education, communication, shared decision-making, support resources, and self-advocacy needs among adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia, caregivers of pediatric patients, and health-care providers.

Stephanie Johnston

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia education and support

Bio: Stephanie Johnston, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, is an advanced practice registered nurse and family nurse practitioner whose JADPRO work focuses on education, shared decision-making, self-advocacy, and support needs for adults and pediatric caregivers managing chronic immune thrombocytopenia.

Susan Kirk

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia

Bio: Susan Kirk, PA-C, is a physician assistant whose JADPRO work addresses education and support needs for patients, caregivers, and health-care providers managing chronic immune thrombocytopenia. Her work focuses on patient self-advocacy, shared decision-making, support resources, evolving treatment information, and psychosocial needs in chronic ITP care.

Michele P. Lambert

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia

Bio: Michele P. Lambert, MD, MSTR, contributes to work focused on immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), including a JADPRO Online First quality improvement study examining education, communication, shared decision-making, self-advocacy, and support needs among patients, caregivers, and health-care providers managing chronic ITP.

Farishta Manzoor

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia education and support

Bio: Farishta Manzoor, PharmD, contributes to quality improvement work focused on immune thrombocytopenia education and support. Her work addresses patient, caregiver, and health-care provider needs in chronic ITP, including self-advocacy, shared decision-making, support resources, evolving treatment education, and mental health support.

Vlad Radulescu

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia

Bio: Vlad Radulescu, MD, contributed to a JADPRO quality improvement study focused on chronic immune thrombocytopenia, examining education, support resources, shared decision-making, self-advocacy, and mental health needs among patients, caregivers, and health-care providers. His indexed publication record also includes work on three-dimensional hindfoot motion in adolescents with surgically treated unilateral clubfoot.

Iberia Romina Sosa

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia

Bio: Iberia Romina Sosa, MD, PhD, has authored work focused on immune thrombocytopenia education and support. Her JADPRO article examines needs identified through a Learning Exchange program involving health-care providers, adult patients, and caregivers of pediatric patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia. Her published work in the provided data also includes topics in diagnostic imaging, radiomics, radiation therapy, and biomedical modeling.

Porcher Scott

Specialties: Immune thrombocytopenia education and support

Bio: Porcher Scott contributed to a Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology quality improvement study examining education and support needs among adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia, caregivers of pediatric patients, and health-care providers. The work focused on patient self-advocacy, shared decision-making, support resources, evolving treatment education, and mental health needs in chronic ITP management.

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