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Advanced Practice Provider Lecture: Laboratory Workup for Transfusion Reactions

Webinar NC

Speaker: Mariama Evans, MD. Join Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank Fellow Mariama Evans, MD, for a review of transfusion reactions and their laboratory workup. Specific topics to include the most common transfusion reactions seen in cancer patients and the laboratory techniques utilized, such as Direct Antiglobulin Test and elutions. The Advanced Practice Provider webinar series … Read more

Event Series Caregiver Conversations

Caregiver Conversations

Free Webinar NC

During these worrisome times, we know you may have things on your mind. Caregiver Conversations is a supportive program just for caregivers caring for a patient with a cancer diagnosis. Caregiver Conversations are held every Tuesday and are facilitated by N.C. Cancer Hospital staff. Given the current safety measures in place for COVID-19, these weekly … Read more

Event Series Caregiver Conversations

Caregiver Conversations

The Mary Anne Long Patient and Family Resource Center 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Caring for a family member or friend with cancer can be extremely daunting. Being a patient advocate, preparing meals, managing medications, providing transportation to medical visits, communicating with family members, and much more. Caregiver Conversations is a program sponsored by the Comprehensive Cancer Support Program (CCSP) at the N.C. Basnight Cancer Hospital and is designed … Read more

Carolina Data Science Now Seminar Series: Data Science – More Than Numbers

Webinar NC

The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, centered around how data science is used as a foundational anchor in computer science and statistics projects. These talks will be followed by a guided panel, an opportunity for questions and answers with the speakers, and a discussion with … Read more

So tell me how you really feel: The evolution of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) from measurement to actionability

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Speaker: Lynne I. Wagner, PhD, professor of social sciences and health policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROs) offer a methodologically robust strategy for assessing patients’ experiences with cancer and its treatment. In addition to yielding valuable data on symptom and health-related quality of life trajectories throughout treatment and survivorship, PROs can … Read more