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Clodagh McHugh
Clodagh McHugh, (RGN, H.Dip Oncology, RNP)
works as an oncology nurse specialist with patients
at every stage of their disease and with all types
of cancer. Based at a leading teaching hospital in
Dublin, she also lectures on oncology nursing and
is involved in developing safety guidelines relating
to oral chemotherapy. She is also involved in a
oncology nurse teaching program in Malawi.
Kate Murphy
Kate Murphy qualified as a Registered General
Nurse in 1992 in UK. Her working career has
been primarily focused in the area of HaematoOncology until she moved to the Republic of
Ireland in 2009. Kate Murphy has been working
in the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork for over 5 years
now. She began as a staff nurse on the in-patient
Oncology Ward for a year, and since then, she
has been working as an Oncology Liaison Nurse.
The role includes meeting patients at diagnosis,
taking them through their treatment plan and
co-ordinating their care, informing them about the
side-effects of chemotherapy and being a point of
contact into the hospital when they are at home
and liaising with all members of the MDT. Within
this role the patients Kate cares for either have
a Genito-Urinary, Lung, Gynaecological, Breast,
Hepatocellular, Cancer of Unknown Primary or
Haematological malignancy. Kate has a BSc in
Oncology Nursing.
Pfizer Oncology
National Nurse Meeting
Meeting the challenges of treating Renal Cell Carcinoma
24 May 2014
Anne Hayes
Anne Hayes is a Counsellor and Psychotherapist.
She also has long experience as nurse tutor
in oncology and palliative care practice and
education in a variety of settings. She set up and
established education in Our Lady’s Hospice,
Harold’s Cross. She currently works as a Counsellor
in ARC Cancer Support Centre and in private
practice, working with people who are living with
life-challenging illnesses.
She holds a MSc. in Clinical Supervision from TCD.
In this her particular interest is in the provision of
clinical supervision for healthcare professionals.
Lisa Guinan
Lisa Guinan has over 10 years experience working
as an oncology nurse and completed her higher
diploma in Oncology Nursing at Trinity college in
2005. She also completed a certificate in Palliative
care nursing and holds a certificate in counselling
and psychotherapy.
Lisa Currently works as an oncology nurse
specialist advisor for the Pfizer Oncology Home
Nurse Service. She runs a nationwide home nurse
support service for all oncology patients who are
prescribed specific oral anti cancer therapies and
also provides education and training to oncology
healthcare professionals around Ireland, in the
management of cancer patients prescribed
specific Tryosine Kinase Inhibitor Anti Cancer
Therapies.
Previous to this role Lisa worked in the area of
radiation oncology at St Lukes hospital Dublin, as
an oncology clinical nurse specialist in the Bons
Secours Hospital and as a cancer information
nurse specialist at the Irish Cancer Society.
Her primary focus is on patient and nurse
education.
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Date of Preparation: February 2014
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MEETING AGENDA
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Calista O’Donnell
Calista O’Donnell is a CNS and has worked in the
oncology day ward in Tallaght for 9 years. She
has a special interest in both renal cancer and
oral targeted agents. She is most interested in the
nursing contribution to patient compliance with such
agents, specifically dealing with toxicities and other
09.00am
Breakfast & Registration
9.20am
Welcome and Introduction
9.30am
Overview of Kidney Cancer
Calista O’Donnell
10.00am
Systemic treatments of Renal Cancer
Derek Power
10.45am – 11.10am
Refreshment Break
11.10am
Renal Cell Metastases; Prognostic Factors
and Evaluating Tumour Responses
Dr Ray McDermott
12.00pm
Tackling Toxicity
Lisa Guinan
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Summer Barbecue Luncheon
1.30pm
Patient Case Presentations
2.00pm
Patient Experience
2.15pm
Managing Psychological Distress of Patients
Diagnosed with a Palliative Cancer
issues. She has presented nursing perspectives on
renal cancer to medical colleagues, most recently at
the Renal Horizons meeting last year. She is also a
member of the European Renal Cell Cancer Nurse
Advisory Board.
Dr. Derek Power
Dr. Derek Power graduated from Trinity College
Dublin in 1994 with an honours degree in
pharmacy. He then graduated from the Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2001 with an
honours medical degree. After his general medical
training and two years of specialist training in
medical oncology he won a bursary from the
Irish Society of Medical Oncology and embarked
on a Solid Tumour fellowship in Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Centre, New York 2007-2009. He
then did a Cancer Genetics fellowship in Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre 2009-2010. He was
appointed as a consultant medical oncologist in the
Mercy and Cork University Hospitals in July 2010.
Interested include melanoma, gastrointestinal
and genitourinary cancers as well as familial
cancer genetics. Dr. Power has published original
papers in the use of novel compounds in upper
gastrointestinal cancer as well as reviews and
book chapters in GI cancers. He has given oral
presentations at the ASCO and ESMO meetings and
is a member of national and international cancer
organisations. He is a principal investigator on
several ICORG clinical trials.
Dr. Ray McDermott
Clodagh McHugh
& Kate Murphy
Anne Hayes
3.00pm – 3.15pm
Refreshment Break
3.15pm
Pfizer Oncology Home Nurse Service
Lisa Guinan
3.45pm
Closing Remarks
Lisa Guinan
Dr. Ray McDermott commenced his training in
Medical Oncology at the Mater Misericordiae
University Hospital, Dublin during which time
he completed an MBA in Health Services
Management. From there, he went to the Institut
Curie, Paris where he earned a PhD in Tumour
Immunology. He subsequently completed his
clinical training at Fox Chase Cancer Canter,
Philadelphia, where he furthered an interest in
Genito-Urinary Oncology working with Gary Hudes
and Naomi Haas. During this training period,
he published over twenty peer reviewed articles
and Book Chapters. He then took up a post as
consultant medical oncologist at the Adelaide &
Meath and National Children’s Hospital, Dublin.
Under the leadership of Dr. McDermott, the
Department of Medical Oncology experienced a
period of rapid growth. Satellite Oncology clinics
were established and a Cancer Clinical Trials
programme funded by the Health Research Board
was established. In 2006, Dr. McDermott was
instrumental in establishing Ireland as a main
member of the Eastern Co-Operative Group, the
largest clinical trials group in the USA with over
70 active studies. Dr. McDermott is the Principal
Investigator for Ireland in this initiative and is
involved in twice yearly meetings with ECOG to
develop this relationship.
A translational research collaboration with the
National Institute of Cellular Biotechnology, based
at Dublin City University, has been established.
Dr. McDermott is the Chair of the Irish Clinical
Oncology Research Group which is responsible
for over 1500 cancer clinical trial patient accruals
per year. Under the auspices of the Irish National
Cancer Control Programme and the establishment
of “Centres of Excellence”, Dr. McDermott’s hospital
commitment has recently been split between
AMNCH and St. Vincent’s University Hospital, where
he pursues his interest in genitourinary cancers.