Conquer Cancer Foundation Recognizes 10 Oncology Professionals for their Contributions to Quality Care Research
March 3, 2017
The Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (CCF) is excited to announce its winners of the 2017 Merit Awards in Quality Care. The award aims to recognize and promote important research efforts in this area, which includes exploring methods for measuring, improving, and implementing the quality and safety of cancer care, by providing the opportunity for recipients to present their findings this weekend at the 2017 Quality Care Symposium in Orlando, Florida.
The 2017 CCF Merit Awards in Quality Care recipients and their abstracts are:
- Eman, Biltaji, PhD, MS, BPharm, University of Utah
Impact of genomic profiling on treatment decisions for patients with melanoma and colorectal cancer cohorts. (Abstract 66) - David Johnson Einstein, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Improving end of life care: Palliative care embedded in an outpatient oncology clinic. (Abstract 77) - Louise Ming-Wai Man, MD, University of Virginia
A multidisciplinary effort to decrease time from admission to chemotherapy on an inpatient oncology unit. (Abstract 96) - Aaron Philip Mitchell, MD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pharmaceutical assistance foundations in the financing of cancer care. (Abstract 8) - Mohammed Athar Naeem, MD, PhD, University of Virginia
Reducing invasive fungal infections in patients with acute myeloid leukemia receiving induction and re-induction chemotherapy at the University of Virginia Health System. (Abstract 120) - Lakshminarayanan Nandagopal, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Improving hepatitis B screening prior to rituximab at a multispecialty urban hospital. (Abstract 176) - Andrew Shaw, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Improving patient care through implementation of a QOPI-focused interactive patient note template. (Abstract 197) - Rudy Sam Suidan, MD, MS, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
A cost-utility analysis of sentinel lymph node mapping, selective lymphadenectomy, and routing lymphadenectomy in the management of low-risk endometrial cancer. (Abstract 10) - Melisa L. Wong, MD, University of California, San Francisco
Improving documentation of surrogate decision makers in medical oncology clinic. (Abstract 63) - Dimas Yusuf, MD, Cross Cancer Institute
Oncopre: A new chemotherapy benefit prediction model to assist treatment decision making. (Abstract 126)