Session 1 - Improving Access to Services
This video is an introduction to this theme and includes actual footage from candid interviews with attendees at the 2008 BC Cancer Agency Conference.
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Presenter - Dr. Brent Schacter
MD, Former Chair & CEO CAPCA
Title: Networked Cancer Care: How One Good Thing Leads to Another - Click here to download presentation
Dr. Schacter is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine of the University of Manitoba and a member of the Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology at CancerCare Manitoba. He practices Malignant Hematology at CancerCare Manitoba.
Presenter - Dr Sharon Watanabe
Director of the Department of Symptom Control and Palliative Care at the Cross Cancer Institute
Title: Improving Access for Rural Cancer Patients to a Specialist Multidisciplinary Pain and Symptom Control and Palliative Radiotherapy Clinic using Telehealth Technology - Click here to download presentation
Sharon Watanabe is a medical oncologist and palliative care physician working at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton. She and her colleagues have been offering a multidisciplinary Pain and Symptom Control and Palliative Radiotherapy consultation service by Telehealth to patients and providers in rural northern Alberta.
Presenter - Cheryl Portigal-Todd
MSc, CGC, CCGC, Hereditary Cancer program
Title: Hereditary Cancer Genetic Counselling by videoconference
Cheryl is originally from Southern Ontario and moved to BC in 1998 to complete a Master’s of Science in Pathology with a focus in prostate cancer research. Cheryl held interests in both health care and genetics and went on to receive a Master’s of Science in Genetic Counselling from the University of British Columbia.
Presenter - Sandra Broughton
MSc, BC Cancer Agency
Title: Sharing the Research-Coordination and Continuity of Cancer Care in Rural and Remote BC Communities
Sandra Broughton is the Regional Administrator with the BC Cancer Agency - Centre for the Southern Interior She holds a Masters of Science degree from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Economics degree from Simon Fraser University. She has worked for the BC Cancer Agency for the past 17 years.
Presenter - Dr. Scott Tyldesley
MD, Radiation Oncologist, Clinical Assistant Professor Radiation Oncology, UBC
Title: Modelling Access and Capacity in the BC Cancer System
Dr. Tyldesley is a Radiation Oncologist practicing at the BC Cancer Agency and Clinical Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology at UBC. He also holds a MPA in Health Policy from Queens University. His areas of expertise include radiation oncology (genitourinary, breast); health policy and health services research and radiation oncology needs assessment.
Presenter - Mitch Verde
MSc Psychology
Title: Palliative Care Capacity Building in Rural Northwestern BC First Nations
Mitch Verde is a member of the House of Duuk in the Gitwilnagil’ Clan, one of many clans within the Nisga’a Nation. Many moons ago, Mitch began taking college courses in Prince George and five years later he became the first person of First Nation ancestry to receive a degree from the University of Northern British Columbia.
Presenter - Fiona Bees
Chief Nursing Officer and Associate Vice President, Cancer Care at the BC Cancer Agency.
Title: TBA
Ms. Fiona Bees is currently the Chief Nursing Officer and Associate Vice President, Cancer Care at the BC Cancer Agency. Fiona completed a Master of Science Degree with the School of Nursing at McGill University in Montreal in 1994.
Session 2: Improve Knowledge Translation and Integration of Best Practices
