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Cancer Programs

Meeting the QI Standard: Beyond the Basics

Agenda

View session and speaker details below.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | 1:00–5:00 pm

Welcome

Workshop Moderator: Elizabeth Wick, MD, FACS, San Francisco, CA

Unpacking Quality Improvement in Cancer Programs

Co-Moderators: Sharon Gentry, MSN, RN, HON ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN, Lewisville, NC; Stephanie Thomas, MBA, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Tyler, TX

ACS Quality Framework

Speaker: Amalia Stefanou, MD, FACS, Tampa, FL

Reviewing Data to Identify the Problem

Co-Moderators: Lauren Janczewski, MD, Chicago, IL; Hae Soo (Rachel) Joung, MD, Chicago, IL

Writing your Problem Statement

Co-Moderators: Charles Shelton, MD, Nags Head, NC; Magesh Sundaram, MD, FACS, Baltimore, MD

Choosing and Implementing Performance Improvement Methodology and Metrics

Co-Moderators: Amalia Stefanou, MD, FACS, Tampa, FL; Heather Lyu, MD, MBI, Houston, TX

Presenting on QI: Who, What, Where, When, and How

Co-Moderators: Magesh Sundaram, MD, FACS, Baltimore, MD; Emmanual Gabriel, MD, FACS, Jacksonville, FL

Description

Join leaders in Cancer QI and peers from across the country and spend an afternoon diving into what Quality Improvement means for your Accredited Cancer Program. Unpack common QI myths, gain a deeper understanding of Quality Improvement standards and reporting requirements, and learn about different tools and templates available to your program to support sustainable improvement in quality cancer care.

Objectives

  • Build a common language and culture of quality improvement in Cancer Programs.
  • Review existing tools/report that accredited program can use to help identify a QI problem including accreditation standards, packaged data reports, and new data sources to identify QI problems.
  • Discuss best practices for a timeline of identifying, developing, and implementing a QI project in your program and share case examples.
  • Learners will gain a deeper understanding of the QI standard and how to operationalize this standard in their own Cancer Program.

Audience

Any Cancer Accredited program member looking to learn more about how to operationalize the QI Standard in their own program to better engage in meaningful and sustainable QI work.

  • Cancer Liaison Physicians
  • Breast Program Leadership Committee members
  • Quality coordinators or managers
  • Cancer program administrator
  • Cancer committee members interested in and responsible for quality improvement
Speakers/Moderators/Discussants/Authors

Oluwamuyiwa Adebayo - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Erika Akers - (Nothing to Disclose)                                  

Arslan Amir - (Nothing to Disclose)                                 

Carrie Antonelli - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Elliot Asare - (Nothing to Disclose)                      

Maria Louise Avenido - (Nothing to Disclose)                              

Carol-Ann Benn - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Aaron Bleznak- (Nothing to Disclose)                              

Daniel Boffa - Iovance, Epic Sciences, to attend and advisory panel  meeting collaboration, stipend, they ran experiments for free

Judy Boughey, MBBChir, FACS - Cairns Surgical, SymBioSys, Physicians Education Resource (PER), PeerView, EndoMag, research support to my institution for clinical trial, financial support for time spent on data safety monitoring committee, royalty share for co-developed IP, honorarium, honorarium, honorarium, Co-PI, member of DSMC, collaboration speaker at educational conference, speaker at educational conference, speaker at educational

Jessica Brandt - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Vicki Chiappetta - (Nothing to Disclose)              

Erin Collins-Buchanan - (Nothing to Disclose)                              

Carolyn Compton - (Nothing to Disclose)                        

Celeste Cruz- (Nothing to Disclose)                                

Ian Csencsits - (Nothing to Disclose)                   

Viktoriia Dailey - (Nothing to Disclose) 

Jill Dietz, MD, MHCM, FACS- Cyduct Diagnostics, Peace Medical LLC, Options (currently no value), N/A         

Edward Diaz - (Nothing to Disclose)                                

Lauren Dori - (Nothing to Disclose)                                 

Lesly Dossett - (Nothing to Disclose)                               

Brian Edwards - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Linda Farkas- (Nothing to Disclose)                                

Marie Fefferman - (Nothing to Disclose)             

Emmanuel Gabriel - (Nothing to Disclose)                                  

Christine Garcia - Pfizer, honorarium, speaker

Sharon Gentry - (Nothing to Disclose)                            

Richard Glick - (Nothing to Disclose)                               

Brianna Graham - (Nothing to Disclose)                          

James Gulley - (Nothing to Disclose)                               

Emmy Hammons - (Nothing to Disclose)                         

Victoria Haney - (Nothing to Disclose)                            

Dawn Hayes - (Nothing to Disclose)                                

Susan Hedlund - (Nothing to Disclose)                            

Tina Hieken - (Nothing to Disclose)                                

Suzanne Hoekstra - (Nothing to Disclose)                                   

Vanessa Hoffmann - (Nothing to Disclose)                                  

Mallori Hooker  - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Kyuseok Im - (Nothing to Disclose)                                 

Lauren Janczewski - (Nothing to Disclose)                                   

Paul Jeffers - (Nothing to Disclose)                                 

Kendra Johnson - (Nothing to Disclose)                          

Edward Joseph - (Nothing to Disclose)                            

Rachel Joung - (Nothing to Disclose)                               

Lyndsey Kilgore - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Laurie Kirstein - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Michelle Kondracki - (Nothing to Disclose)                                  

Abha Kulkarni - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Ron Landmann - Ethicon, Natera, consulting fees, consulting fees consultant, consultant

Meeghan Lautner - (Nothing to Disclose)                         

Raymond Liu - Genentech, AstraZeneca, Exact Sciences, Biotheranostics, Beigene, Pfizer, research grant, research grant, research grant, research grant, research grant, Think Tank committee member, research grant, research grant, research grant, research grant, research grant, no honorarium, sponsor provided travel lodging expenses for Think Tank

Denise Lutkemeier - (Nothing to Disclose)                                  

Heather Lyu - (Nothing to Disclose)     

Jane Meisel, MD - Pfizer, Olema, Sermonix, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Puma, Seagen, Genentech, consulting GSK, institutional research funding and consulting honoraria, consulting honoraria, consultant and servicing as institutional PI of trials                           

Jenna Mancinelli - (Nothing to Disclose)              

Linda Martin - AstraZeneca, Genentech, Ethicon, Ontarget Laboratories honraria; investigator support, honoraria, honoraria, honoraria, advisory board; principle investigator, advisory board; speaker’s bureau, speakers bureau, consulting; investigator for clinical trial

Hassan Masoudpoor - (Nothing to Disclose)                               

Ryan McCabe - (Nothing to Disclose)                              

James McLoughlin - (Nothing to Disclose)                                   

Stacey Milan - (Nothing to Disclose)                               

Kimberly Miller - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Kelsey Montgomery - (Nothing to Disclose)                    

Gloria Morris - (Nothing to Disclose)                              

Timothy  Mullett - Oncolens, ownership, interest advisor

David Mullins - (Nothing to Disclose)                              

Shelby Murphy - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Daniella Natanov - (Nothing to Disclose)                         

Toan Thien (Tony) Nguyen - Aptitude Health, consultant fee, consultant

Alexander Olawaiye, MD, FACS, MRCOG, FACOG - AstraZeneca, Corcept, Therapeutics, GSK, Merck, Elsai, Dalichi Sankyo, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Research grant, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings, research, advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings 

Jamie Partlow - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

LeAnn Perkins - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Garrett Peters - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Lindsey Pimentel - (Nothing to Disclose)                         

Broc Pollinger - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Marcella Ramahi - (Nothing to Disclose)                         

Erin Reuter - (Nothing to Disclose)                               

Jonathan Rubin - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Shayla Scarlett - 3M, individual stock owner of 10 shares in retirement account   

Camille Servodidio - (Nothing to Disclose)                                 

Charles Shelton - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Mohummad Siddiqui - (Nothing to Disclose)                

Nicole Sinclair - (Nothing to Disclose)                             

Rebecca A. Snyder - (Nothing to Disclose)                                   

Jessica Steadman - (Nothing to Disclose)                         

Amalia Stefanou - (Nothing to Disclose)                          

James Sun - (Nothing to Disclose)                                   

Magesh Sundaram - (Nothing to Disclose)                                  

Chad Teven - (Nothing to Disclose)

Mediget Teshome, MD, FACS - Endomagnetics travel/accommodations for TBCC22 conference speaker                              

Whittney Thoman - (Nothing to Disclose)                                   

Stephanie Thomas - (Nothing to Disclose)                                  

Danielle Thompson - (Nothing to Disclose)                                 

Theodoros Voloyiannis  - (Nothing to Disclose)                           

Mark Whiteford - (Nothing to Disclose)

Elizabeth Wick, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                     

Ronald Weigel, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                         

Lee Wilke - Elucent Medical, Perimeter Medical, stock options (less than 5%), institutional support for clinical trial, Founder, institutional PI of clinical trial—no salary support

Chris Wilson - (Nothing to Disclose)

Katherine Yao, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)          

Kimberly Yee, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                       

Emma Zimmerman- (Nothing to Disclose)

Planning Committee/Editorial Committee

Thomas Baker, MD, FCAP - (Nothing to Disclose)                       

Jill Dietz, MD, MHCM, FACS- Cyduct Diagnostics, Peace Medical LLC, Options (currently no value), N/A

Laurie Kirstein, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                       

Denise Mammolito, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                            

Alexander Olawaiye, MD, FACS, MRCOG, FACOG - AstraZeneca, Corcept, Therapeutics, GSK, Merck, Elsai, Dalichi Sankyo, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Research grant, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, Honorarium for advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings, research, advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings, advisory board meetings

Rebecca Snyder, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                                 

Kinberly Yee, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                          

Ronald Weigel, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                       

Mehra Golshan, MD, MBA, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)             

Jane Meisel, MD - Pfizer, Olema, Sermonix, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Puma, Seagen, Genentech, consulting GSK, institutional research funding and consulting honoraria, consulting honoraria, consultant and servicing as institutional PI of trials

Mediget Teshome, MD, FACS - Endomagnetics, travel/accommodations for TBCC22 conference speaker

Elizabeth Wick, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                       

Anthony Yang, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                        

Katherine Yao, MD, FACS - (Nothing to Disclose)                        

Judy Boughey, MBBChir, FACS - Cairns Surgical, SymBioSys, Physicians Education Resource (PER), PeerView, EndoMag, research support to my institution for clinical trial, financial support for time spent on data safety monitoring committee, royalty share for co-developed IP, honorarium, honorarium, Honorarium, Co-PI, member of DSMC, collaboration speaker at educational conference, speaker at educational conference, speaker at educational conference