Program

12th National Breast Care Nurses Conference

Crowne Plaza, Coogee

	Session
Thursday 18 March 2010 Day 1
0715	Yoga on the Beach with Pam Bleakley
0900	Welcome & House Keeping Professor David Currow Chief Executive of the Cancer Institute NSW
0920	Professor Kate White (Professor of Cancer Nursing NSW's first Academic Chair in Cancer Nursing) Leadership, Direction and Challenge for BCNs
0940	Professor Trish Knobf Managing Physical and Psychological Symptoms During and After Breast Cancer Treatment.
1030	Morning Tea/Trade Displays
1100	Professor Bruno Guiffre Breast MRI and radiology updates
1130	Dr Moyez Jiwa Survivorship and Follow Up Studies
1230	Lunch/Trade Displays
	Concurrent 1 New Breast Care Nurse Workshop	Concurrent 2 Holistic Care	Concurrent 3 Survivorship & Information needs	Concurrent 4 Nursing Considerations
1330	Elisabeth Black Surgery	Danielle Spence and Leanne Storer, Western Health Providing holistic care for the woman with a fungating breast wound	Marven & Thomas Research priorities in Breast Cancer Survivorship - What do breast cancer survivors think?	Lee Millard A Male’s Perspective
1400	Kate Baychek Chemo and Endocrine Therapy	Anne Cantor Art Therapy	Sally Hines Providing holistic care to newly diagnosed through information and resources - My Journey Kit 2nd edition	Heidi Wilcoxon Australian best practice models of post-surgical breast cancer car
1430	Stacey Cail Radiotherapy	Anne Cantor Art Therapy continued	Sarah Pratt Use of Survivorship Care Plans for Early Breast Cancer Patients.	Georgina Marr Follow up after early breast cancer: Considering shared care in Australia
1500	Afternoon Tea / Trade Displays
1520	Vivienne Milch National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Center update
1550	Maree Thomas Mindfulness based group interventions for oncology outpatients: some reflections on research and practice
1620	Dr Lucy Blunt Talking to young children about Breast Cancer: the book
1650	Close

	Session
Friday 19 March 2010 Day 2
0800	Astra Zeneca Breakfast Session: Dr Sally Baron-Hay and Astra Zeneca will present: Current research from San Antonio and Promoting Adherance to Medication
0900	Welcome & House Keeping
	Professor Tish Knobf Health Promotion and transition to survivorship
1000	Speaker (TBC) Optimising health professionals' skills when communicating and interacting with patients
1030	Vivienne O'Callaghan Introduction to Complementary Therapies for People with Cancer
	Morning Tea/Trade Displays
	Concurrent 1 What's new	Concurrent 2 Sex, babies & menopause	Concurrent 3 Interactive Communication	Concurrent 4 East meets West
1130	Louise Koelmeyer Current Lymphoedema Management and Prevention	Siri May One Size Doesn't Fit All - Addressing Sexual diversity in Client Care	Stewart Dunn Communication needs of a metastic patient (closed session)	Pip Clayton Development of a Breast Care Centre and Mobile Screening Program in the United Arab Emirates
1200	Dr Julie Thompson Breast medicine - The Triple test	Alison Szwajcer Establishing and evaluating a nurse led menopause and breast cancer clinic	Stewart Dunn Communication needs of a metastic patient (closed session)	Prof Ian Campbell (to be confirmed) SNAC update
1230	Deborah Prior Indigenous perspectives of cancer	Michelle Peate Fertility	Stewart Dunn Communication needs of a metastic patient (closed session)	Byeongsang Oh Medical Qigong
1300	Lunch/Trade Displays
1400	Dr Chris Hayes Pain, Personal Story and Spirituality
1430	Kathy Tucker Genetics
1500	Dr Michael Izard Breast Brachytherapy and Updates in Radiation Oncology
1530	Afternoon Tea/Trade Shows
1550	Bettina Arndt Why women would rather eat chocolate
1650	Close