Instructions for Credit — This activity is accredited for 1.0 continuing education credit for social workers. Participants must attend the free webinar in its entirety, watch all videos, submit the online evaluation form and complete and submit the online post-test with a passing score of 70% to earn credit. Once submitted, the certificate will be automatically generated as a PDF online.
Please retain a copy of the certificate for your records. For questions regarding the accreditation of this activity, please contact Medical Learning Institute, Inc. at (609) 333-1693 or ndane@mlicme.org.
You must be enrolled to complete this activity for credit, however, you are not required to enroll simply to view the presentation.
Target Audience — Social Workers and other healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients with hematologic malignancies.
Course Content Level for Social Workers — all levels
Format — Non-interactive recorded webinar with videos
| Learning Objectives — At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to: | |
| • | Provide an overview of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and the blood cancers and solid tumors under study for treatment |
| • | Explain the nurse’s role in assessment, monitoring for and managing side effects of treatment |
| • | Describe the nurse’s role in preparing patients and family members about the CART process and potential side effects of treatment |
| • | Address the need for communication with a patient’s community oncologist and healthcare team to transition care |
| • | Identify resources for the nurse, social worker and other HCPs to educate and support patients and caregivers |
Commercial Support Acknowledgement — This activity is supported by educational grants from Bristol Myers Squibb, Kite, A Gilead Company and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
Provider — This activity is provided by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Continuing Education for Social Workers
Social Worker Designation
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Provider Number 1105, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. LLS maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 12/10/2020-12/10/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credit.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0117. LLS maintains responsibility for this program. Social workers will receive 1.0 CE clinical contact hour for this activity.
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Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest — All faculty participating in continuing education activities by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society are expected to disclose to activity participants any significant financial interest or other relationships with the manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) discussed in their presentations. The faculty are also expected to disclose any unlabeled or investigational uses of any product(s) discussed in their presentations.
Faculty Disclosures
Sherry Adkins RN, MSN, ANP-C, Advisory Board: Celgene/Bristol Meyers Squibb
Heather DiFilippo MSN, CRNP, Janssen Preceptor; CAR T Advisory Board: Celgene/Janssen; Novartis: Speaker Bureau
Ilene Galinsky, BSN, MSN, ANPc, Consultant: AbbVie, Celgene, Pfizer, Merus, Jazz
Kathleen McDermott, RN, BSN, CAR T Speaker Bureau: Gilead/ KITE; CAR T Advisory Board: Celgene
Disclaimer — Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
| Estimated time to complete activity: 1.0 hour |
| Date of initial release: November 4, 2020 |
| Expiration date: November 4, 2021 |
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Sherry Adkins, RN, MSN, ANP-C, is an Advanced Practice Nurse with over 20 years of experience. After completing an Advanced Practice Oncology Fellowship Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in 2008, she began working as a nurse practitioner in the Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2014 she began working with Dr. Sattva Neelapu in leading multiple CAR T-cell therapy clinical trials including the ZUMA-1 Registry Trial which led to the release of the first commercial CAR T-cell therapy for the treatment of lymphoma. She has been instrumental in developing a commercial program for CAR-T cell therapy and has developed expertise in the CAR T-cell arena, particularly regarding the assessment and management of toxicities.
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Heather DiFilippo, MSN, CRNP, is a Nurse Practitioner in the Department of Hematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a nurse practitioner since 2003 and specializes in hematologic malignancies as well as bone marrow transplant and immunotherapy. She has played an active role in managing patients receiving cellular therapy since 2009 and provides ongoing patient education as well as direct patient care during and after infusion. Ms. DiFilippo attended Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia where she received a Bachelor of Science in psychology, before continuing on to pursue a Bachelor of Science in nursing at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. While working in oncology at Jefferson University Hospital, she completed her Master of Science in nursing as well. Ms. DiFilippo is a Board-Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner and licensed in Pennsylvania.
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Ilene Galinsky, BSN, MSN, NP-C, is a Senior Adult Leukemia Program Research Nurse Practitioner Leukemia Program at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston MA. She has worked at the DFCI for 32 years, beginning as a selected nurse intern on the oncology inpatient service. After serving as Charge Nurse on the inpatient service and as a Program Nurse in Harvard’s Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, she joined the DFCI/BWH Leukemia Program as a program/research RN. After receiving her Master’s Degree in Adult Primary Care in 2004, she became the senior program research midlevel nurse practitioner in the Adult Leukemia program overseeing many aspects of clinical research activities as well as participating in the care of many patients with leukemia and related disorders.
Currently, Nurse Practitioner Galinsky, is employed full time as the Senior Program Research Nurse Practitioner in the DFCI/BWH adult Leukemia Program where she has implemented a collaboration meeting with pharmacy and nursing at both the inpatient and outpatient setting. In addition, she was recently instrumental in assisting in the establishment of the strategic team for CAR T cells. Currently a part of a research task force looking into safety and educational and communication programs between the research team and the clinical teams. She serves as the co-chair of the Alliance (national oncology trial cooperative group) Oncology Nurse Committee, as well as nurse liaison to the Leukemia, Myeloma, and Transplant Alliance Committees. She is a member of American Society of Hematology and Oncology Nursing Society. She has recently completed her service on the oncology board of the ABIM, serving as the non MD representative.
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Kathleen McDermott, RN, BSN, OCN®, BMTCN®, is a Staff Nurse with 38 years of experience in the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Care Program. Since 2000, she has been a lymphoma program/ research nurse coordinating autologous stem cell transplants and in 2015 added CAR T research trials. In 2018 when commercial products come to market, she accepted the DFCI inaugural position as the Immune Effector Cell (IEC) Program Nurse Navigator. Kathleen played an integral role in the development of DFCI/BWH commercial CAR T program.
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