HSANZ Nurses Group NSW Dinner Meeting

HSANZ NURSES GROUP DINNER MEETING

NSW BRANCH

Thursday 31^st August

You must register for this event:  https://www.hsanz.org.au/event-5362034

Aqua Luna Restaurant - 461 Henley Marine Drive, Drummoyne

Dinner will be served.

Please advise any dietary requirements

Virtual attendance available - please email   tracy.king1@health.nsw.gov.au

Agenda:

6.30 – 7.00pm   Arrival and Registration

7.00 – 7.45pm   Managing patients on new therapies in relapsed myeloma: A nursing perspective

7.45 - 8.00pm   Increasing access to novel agents – the NORM Platform Study

8.00 - 8.45pm   M-SPN Consensus Best Practice Selinexor

8.45 - 9.00pm   Q&A

9.00pm             Meeting close

Donna Catamero, Associate Director of Myeloma Research, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

Donna has worked as a NP in the MM Program at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City and Mount Sinai, New York City. She then spent 2-yrs working for Celgene Corporation as Scientific Director of Medical Affairs in MM where she supported the launch of ide-cel and developed a CAR T educational program for healthcare providers. She now serves as Associate Director of Myeloma Research. In this position, she oversees clinical research projects and develops standards of care for professional practice. Donna is an active author, presenter, and educator including co-authoring “On the Horizon,” the concluding chapter in Multiple Myeloma: A Textbook for Nurses (3rd ed.). Ms. Catamero sits on the International Myeloma Foundation Nurse Leadership Board (NLB).  Additionally, having worked on the frontlines during the initial COVID surge in New York City, she authored an article on “Considerations of COVID-19–Specific Myeloma Guidelines in New York City” for APSHO.

Dr Georgia McCaughan, Staff Specialist St Vincent’s Hspt, Sydney. ALLG MM working party lead, AMaRC Research Advisory Group member, Senior Research Associate UNSW / Garvan Institute of Medical Research. 

Dr Tracy King, MM CNC, RPA Sydney, Chair HSANZ M-SPN, Clinical A/Prof CNRU, Sydney Uni. 

Meeting Sponsored by: Antengene - No cost to HSANZ members. $25 non-members