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Workshop

Update on the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

Topics Covered

  • Overview of Ovarian Cancer, Including Staging
  • Current Standard of Care
  • New Treatment Approaches & Follow-Up Care
  • Treatment Options for Recurrent Ovarian Cancer
  • How Precision Medicine, Biomarker & Genetic Testing Inform Your Treatment Decisions
  • The Role of the Pathologist
  • The Role of the Genetic Counselor
  • Clinical Trial Updates
  • Managing Treatment Side Effects, Symptoms, Discomfort & Pain
  • Talking with Your Treatment Team about Quality-of-Life Concerns: Key Questions to Ask
  • Guidelines for Preparing for Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology, Prepared List of Questions, Follow-Up Care & Discussion of OpenNotes
  • Questions to Ask Our Panel of Experts

Speakers

Facilitator
Dana Chase, MD, FACOG
Professor and Fellowship Program Director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Facilitator
Sarah Kerr, MD
Chair, Department of Pathology, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Pathologist specializing in Molecular Genetic Pathology, Gynecologic and Perinatal Pathology, Pulmonary Pathology, and Cytopathology, Hospital Pathology Associates and Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Facilitator
Jennifer Jorgensen, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Connecticut
Facilitator
Kara (Schoeffel) Rogen, MS, CGC
Licensed Certified Genetic Counselor, Department of Clinical Genomics, Mayo Clinic

Continuing Education Credits

Social Workers: This program has been submitted to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, an approved provider through the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, provider #CS4607, for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Cancer Care, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0088. This workshop is approved for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®): This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Cancer Care, Inc is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.

To request continuing education paperwork, please email your name, profession, and address to [email protected] after the program. All paperwork for continuing education credit must be requested, completed, and submitted within two weeks of the live program.