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Full Schedule

  • Tuesday, September 10, 2024
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    APHON Chemotherapy Biotherapy Instructor Course
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Registration and APHON Store Open
  • Wednesday, September 11, 2024
  • 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM MT
    Non-NCPD Symposium - The Silent Killer: The Nurses’ Role in Recognizing and Managing Iron Overload in Sickle Cell Disease/Thalassemia with Iron Chelation Therapy, sign up required
  • 7:00 AM - 6:30 PM MT
    Registration and APHON Store Open
  • 8:15 AM - 11:30 AM MT
    Clinical Management and Comprehensive Care of the Infant, Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult with Sickle Cell Disease, ticketed event
  • 8:15 AM - 11:30 AM MT
    Design to Dissemination: Elevating Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing through Clinical Inquiry, ticketed event
  • 8:15 AM - 11:30 AM MT
    Leadership Course - Boldly Go: Navigating the Future Together, ticketed event
  • 8:15 AM - 11:30 AM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine Principles into Early Survivorship Care, ticketed event
  • 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM MT
    Soda Bar Experience
  • 11:30 AM - 6:15 PM MT
    Poster Early Viewing
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM MT
    Non-NCPD Symposium: Clinical Considerations For Adolescent Patients With All Treated With Asparaginase: A Case-based Review, sign up required
  • 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM MT
    (OPS) Opening Remarks and Presentation of APHON Fellows
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM MT
    Keynote - Stepping Into Your Potential
  • 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM MT
    Retained Immunity to Routine Childhood Vaccinations Post Chemotherapy for Childhood Cancer.
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Anticoagulation Management in the Pediatric Oncology Population
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    APHON Industry Relations Council Member Meeting - Invitation Only
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Radiology Case Series: A Review of Common Findings in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Patients - Livestream
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Reflective Practice is Nursing Practice: Utilizing this Powerful Tool as Demonstrated by the POGO Interlink Nursing Team
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    The Building Blocks for Developing a Gene Therapy Program
  • 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM MT
    Vaccine-mediated humoral immunity in childhood cancer survivors: Are they protected?
  • 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Measuring What Matters Most: Rigorous Development of Pediatric Cancer Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators for Resource-Diverse Settings and Countries
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Professional Development Forum - Admin/Manager
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Professional Development Forum - APN
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Professional Development Forum - Clinical Care
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Professional Development Forum - Education
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Professional Development Forum - Nurse Navigator, Case Manager, Nurse Coordinator
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Professional Development Forum - Research Nursing
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    Virtual Only: Conversation with APHON President, Dyane Bunnell and Virtual Attendee Prize Drawing
  • 5:15 PM - 5:35 PM MT
    Improving Bathing "Treatment" Adherence in Patients with Central Venous Access Devices in a Pediatric/Oncology/HSCT Unit.
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    Complex Care Coordination: Creation of a Pediatric BMT Discharge Program
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    Don’t be scarED! Using quality improvement to build bridges with the Emergency Department
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    Transition from Pediatric to Adult Health Care with a Chronic Health Condition: Planning Required!
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    What is haploidentical transplantation? A game of Jeopardy exploring haplo transplantation and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) ASCT2031 study
  • 5:35 PM - 5:55 PM MT
    Humoral Immune Status and Response to Re-vaccination in Pediatric Cancer Survivors Following Standard of Care Therapy
  • 5:55 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    One Stick Wonder: Establishing an Outpatient Vascular Access Team (VAT)
  • 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM MT
    Exhibit Hall and Opening Reception
  • 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM MT
    Hosted Posters
  • 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM MT
    President's Reception - Invitation Only
  • Thursday, September 12, 2024
  • 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM MT
    Registration and APHON Store Open
  • 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM MT
    Exhibit Hall & Continental Breakfast
  • 7:15 AM - 8:15 AM MT
    JOPHON Editorial Board Meeting - Invitation Only
  • 7:15 AM - 8:15 AM MT
    Local Chapter Strategies: Collaborative Approaches for Reaching New Heights
  • 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM MT
    Hosted Posters
  • 8:10 AM - 8:30 AM MT
    Poster Awards
  • 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM MT
    General Session: APHON in the Morning - Professional Development
  • 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM MT
    JOPHON Awards
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM MT
    Exhibit Hall Coffee Break
  • 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM MT
    Creating a Night Shift End-of-Life (EOL) Safety Huddle to Improve Communication and Collaboration Among Disciplines: A Quality Improvement Intervention
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Advances in Treatment and Nursing Care for Patients with Infant Leukemia
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Are We There Yet? Goals of Care Discussions and Shared Medical Decision Making in Pediatric Oncology
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Children’s Oncology Group Survivorship Update: What’s new in the care of pediatric cancer survivors!
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Recent Advancements and Continued Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management of Transplant Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TA-TMA).
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    The Evidence is in: Addressing Fatigue in Children and Adolescents with Cancer
  • 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM MT
    Influence of Health Literacy and Household Material Hardship on New Diagnosis Educational Experience Reported by Childhood Cancer Caregivers
  • 11:25 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Implementing Toyota Production System Methodology to Reduce CLABSI Rates: A Quality Improvement Project
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MT
    Non-NCPD Symposium - ALL IN Staying the Course with ALL by Supporting Asparaginase Practices, sign up required
  • 1:15 PM - 1:35 PM MT
    A Retrospective Study of Symptom Burden in Pediatric Renal Tumor Patients
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM MT
    Amplifying Voices of Another Language: A Nurse-Led Intervention to Address the Needs of Patients, Families, and Medical Interpreters
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM MT
    Cabozantinib: a TKI delivering a TKO to pediatric sarcomas
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM MT
    Call a code! - Hematological Emergencies in Pediatrics
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM MT
    Relapsed and Refractory Neuroblastoma: What now?
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM MT
    We’ve got our eyes on the prize and feel it in our bones: New COG trials for retinoblastoma and osteosarcoma
  • 1:35 PM - 1:55 PM MT
    School-Age Children’s Characterization of Symptoms and Symptom Management
  • 1:55 PM - 2:15 PM MT
    Biobehavioral influences of stress and inflammation on mucositis in adolescents and young adults with cancer
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM MT
    Exhibit Hall and Prize Drawing
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM MT
    Passport Prize Drawing
  • 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    General Session: State of Science
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    EBP Research Awards
  • 5:15 PM - 5:35 PM MT
    What are Parents’ Risks of Exposure When Administering Oral Chemotherapy to Children with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia During Maintenance Therapy?
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    Enhancing Emergency Skills Through PRACTICE (Practicing Responses to Acute Clinical Troubles: Initiative through Clinical Education)
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    Innovations in Childhood ALL Science: Dynamic Discussions for Nurses Caring for Patients Enrolled on Children’s Oncology Group Trials
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    Strike a LOBE: Taking a Deeper Dive into Imaging Modalities for Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Patients
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    The Pathway to Radiance: Lessons Learned Implementing a Program for Delivering Photobiomodulation to Stem Cell Transplant Patients
  • 5:35 PM - 5:55 PM MT
    Implementing Recommendations for Return of Results within the Children’s Oncology Group: A Model for Returning Study Results
  • 5:55 PM - 6:15 PM MT
    Standardizing the Nursing Neurologic Assessment for Pediatric Oncology Patients and the Impact on Nursing Confidence
  • 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM MT
    Non-NCPD Symposium - Kyles Story: A Patient’s Journey from a VOD/SOS Diagnosis to Treatment, sign up required
  • Friday, September 13, 2024
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM MT
    ONCC Recognition Breakfast: Unleash Your Inner DaVinci, ticketed event
  • 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM MT
    Registration and APHON Store Open
  • 8:15 AM - 8:35 AM MT
    The Parent Caregiving Experience of School-Aged Children With Cancer
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM MT
    Developing an Integrated Clinic for Adolescents with Severe Anemia and Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: A Single-Institution Experience
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM MT
    Exercise is Medicine: Improving patient outcomes through mobility interdisciplinary program
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM MT
    Kids shouldn’t always be last: The nurse’s role in pediatric oncology drug development
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM MT
    The Safety and Feasibility of an Ambulatory CAR-T Program.
  • 8:35 AM - 8:55 AM MT
    Calming the Weight of Anxiety for Pediatric Oncology Patients
  • 8:55 AM - 9:15 AM MT
    I’m Trying to do the Right Thing! A Mixed Methods Investigation of Moral and Ethical Distress Among Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM MT
    General Session - Embracing the Cringe: Navigating Uncomfortable Conversations with AYAs
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Town Hall - Advocacy
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Town Hall - DEI
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Town Hall - Hematology
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Town Hall - Palliative Care
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Town Hall - Small Programs vs. Large Programs
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Town Hall - Transplant/Cellular/Emerging Therapies
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Virtual Town Hall: Global Outreach featuring the 2024 International Nursing Scholarship Recipients
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MT
    APHON Business Meeting, Lunch, Awards and Installation
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM MT
    A Natural Way to Engage: Utilizing NK Engager Cells to Attack Relapsed Leukemia
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM MT
    Advanced Care Planning For Adolescent and Young Adult Stem Cell Transplant Patients
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM MT
    Beyond CRS and ICANS: CAR T-cell Therapy for CNS Tumors: Nursing Assessment and Management
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM MT
    Building a Strong Foundation, What is Supporting Your New Nurses?
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM MT
    Reproductive Healthcare in Sickle Cell Disease
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM MT
    Closing Session: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough- Music Therapy for Connection, Legacy, and Self-Care
  • 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Wrap Up and Call to 2025 Conference