Radiation Therapy

Saturday, December 3, 2011 - Stanley Park Ballroom Salon 3

Describe the challenges related to accurately immobilizing head and neck radiation therapy patients, as well as to discuss the need for daily imaging of these patients
Describe "The Colorectal Cancer Research Group: an interdisciplinary team at the Vancouver Island Centre"
Describe the impetus that moving to an electronic treatment record had upon an interprofessional team whose main objective was to create a standardized approach to patient centered care
Outline the care path for pediatric patients receiving radiation therapy - from meeting with the Radiation Oncologist, to appointment bookings, patient education, treatment planning, data collection, policy and procedure development, and treatment completion
Describe a radiation therapists role in an interdisciplinary pain and symptom management team
Discuss recent research projects completed by Radiation Therapists within the BC Cancer Agency
Describe the BC Cancer Agency's TrueBeam© experience
Discuss recent research projects completed by Radiation Therapists within the BC Cancer Agency

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Time	Topic	Speakers
07:45 - 09:00	Light Breakfast – Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC
09:15 - 09:20	Opening Remarks	Karen Yendley
09:20 - 09:55	Improving Cancer Care Through Partnerships	Amanda Bolderston
09:55 - 10:30	Head & Neck Immobilization: What daily imaging can show you!	Wendy Webb Gail Murray
10:30 - 11:00	Refreshment Break - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC
11:00 - 11:35	Colorectal Cancer Research Group; An interdisciplinary team at the Vancouver Island Centre	Alison Mitchell
11:35 - 12:10	Electronic Clinical Documentation: Interprofessional collaboration in the creation and standardization of patient assessment and documentation for radiation therapy	Donna Lewis Kari Osmar
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch and Networking - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC
13:10 - 13:45	Palliative Focused RTs: Collaboration with interventional anesthesiologists	Tracey Rose
13:45 - 14:20	It Takes a Village to Treat a Child	Christine Rodgerson
14:20 - 14:55	BCCA RT Project Updates FVC Contouring Project Patient Education Material Centre of the North Update	Sarah Kristensen Andrea Wolowski
14:55 - 15:15	Refreshment Break
15:15 - 15:55	TrueBeam: The BC Cancer Agency experience	Donna Whiteman Michelle Brandel Lorraine Geddes
15:55 - 16:15	Evaluations & Closing Remarks	Karen Yendley