2024 Collaborative Care Conference: Connecting the Oncology Continuum & Palliative Care
Hilton Hasbrouck Heights/Meadowlands
650 Terrace Avenue
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 7:00am ET - 3:30pm ET
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Info
Topic
Communication; Gene Therapy; Treatment & Symptom Management: Sickle Cell, Lung Cancer & Leukemia; Sound Bath Session
Credits Offered
This event offers
0.0 CEU credits
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
This activity is pending approval for contact hours of continuing education by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners®..
Additional Information
This conference is held jointly between the Upstate NJ ONS chapter and the NJ Palliative Care APN Consortium. These two organizations are coming together to host a conference promoting high quality oncological care through disease specific information and in depth symptom management.
Please not that the conference location is located towards the back of the building. Please park in the back parking lot.
Speakers
Genetic Counselor at the the Hennessey Institute for Cancer Prevention and Applied Molecular Medicine at Hackensack Meridian Health
I am a Board Certified Oncology Nurse Practitioner specializing in the care of patients with hematological malignancies. Areas of care include patients with leukemia, lymphoma, cellular therapies and bone marrow transplant.
Hematologist/Oncologist at Regional Cancer Care Associates
Clinical Supervisor and Palliative APN, Hackensack University Center
Dr. Katie DeMarco is the Pain & Palliative Medicine Clinical Supervisor and a Palliative APN at Hackensack University Medical Center where she provides specialty palliative services to patients and their family in the acute hospital, skilled nursing facilities, and in the ALS clinic. She has a passion for translating palliative evidence based guidelines and strategies to the bedside and being an innovative change agent. Since 2009, Katie has supported and led the growth of the Hackensack Palliative Care Service. Katie has a BA in Human Services, a BS in Nursing, a Masters of Health Science in End of Life Care, Masters of Nursing in Family Practice, and in 2015 she earned a clinical Doctorate in Palliative Care. She is a certified family nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is a board-certified Hospice and Palliative Care Advanced Practice Nurse by the HPCC. Katie participates in state and national organizations and initiatives such as the NJ Department of Health Palliative Care Work Group, NJ Governor’s Council for Palliative and End of life care, member of the Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey, HPNA APN Advisory Council, and she is a past president and the current VP, Health Policy/Legislation & Community, for the NJ Palliative Care APN Consortium. Katie is passionate about mentoring others, participating in palliative research and enjoys editing, and writing palliative articles and chapters.
Director of Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care at Astera Cancer Care
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