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  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    9:00 AM – 9:10 AM East Coast USA Time
    8th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Welcome
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Chair: Fernanda Lemos, RN – member of organization comitee - IMS
    Chair: Tracy King, PhD, MSc, RN – Institute of Haematology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    9:10 AM – 10:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    8th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Session 1: Move'ing Forward with Bone Health
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Co-Chair: Tiffany A. Richards, PhD, ANP-BC AOCNP (she/her/hers) – MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Co-Chair: Tracy King, PhD, MSc, RN – Institute of Haematology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    9:10 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Contemporary understanding of myeloma bone disease and its management
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Jens Hillengass, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    9:30 AM – 9:50 AM East Coast USA Time
    Strengthening bone and body – the role of targeted exercise
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Orla McCourt, PhD – University College London NHS Foundation Trust
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    9:50 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    NSO-01: The real world experience of the incidence, assessment, and management of oral adverse events and weight loss with talquetamab leading to the development of an assessment tool
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Donna D. Catamero, ANP-BC – Mount Sinai Hospital
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    10:00 AM – 10:10 AM East Coast USA Time
    NSO-05: Recommendations for Infection screening and prophylaxis for bispecific antibodies in myeloma: a single center analysis
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Danielle L. Roberts, PA-C (she/her/hers) – Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    10:20 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    8th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Session 2: Managing and Supporting Patients with Precursor Disease
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Co-Chair: Charise Gleason, NP-C – Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
    Co-Chair: Orla McCourt, PhD – University College London NHS Foundation Trust
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    10:20 AM – 10:40 AM East Coast USA Time
    Current management of precursor disease & options for early treatment
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Vania Hungria, MD, PhD – Department of Hematology, Clinica São Germano, São Paulo, Brazil
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    10:40 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Exploring the biological & psychological uncertainties in precursor disease
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Kwee L. Yong, PhD (she/her/hers) – University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    11:00 AM – 11:10 AM East Coast USA Time
    NSO-02: An Advanced Practice Provider Consult Clinic is Feasible to Evaluate Patients With Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) And Plasma Cell Disorders (PCDs)
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    11:10 AM – 11:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    NSO-04: Evaluation of clinical outcomes and toxicities in multiple myeloma patients receiving commercial talquetamab
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Rebecca Lu, MS, FNP-C* – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    11:45 AM – 12:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    8th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Session 3: Treatment Delivery - Real World Solutions
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    11:45 AM – 12:05 PM East Coast USA Time
    Optimal dosing and scheduling in real world treatment delivery
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Vincent Rajkumar, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    12:05 PM – 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    NSO-06: Protocol for Outpatient Administration of Multiple Myeloma Bispecific Antibodies Step-Up Dosing
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Sara A. Scott, PharmD, BCOP – Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    12:15 PM – 12:25 PM East Coast USA Time
    NSO-03: Validation of the Steroid Symptom Questionnaire Multiple Myeloma (SSQ-MM) with concurrent symptom and quality of life measurement (EORTC QLQ-C30 and MY20)
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Speaker: Tracy King, PhD, MSc, RN – Institute of Haematology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    12:25 PM – 12:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    Multi-disciplinary case discussion – models of care to meet increased capacity in the clinic
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Panelist: Mary Steinbach, DNPli APRN – Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah
    Panelist: Rahul Banerjee, MD (he/him/his) – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    12:55 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    8th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Close
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Wednesday, Sep 25th
    12:55 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    8th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Close
    Location: 204A
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium
  • Thursday, Sep 26th
    12:30 PM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    8th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Poster Session
    Location: 204A, Convention Center
    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium