Workshops

An interactive education and training to help members of the multidisciplinary cancer care team build sustainable and productive relationships and coalitions with community organizations. Participate in group discussions and exercises to understand how partnerships support communities’ needs and engage communities in shared ideas to improve population-based health. Learn strategies and hear from your colleagues on how these partnerships can improve the care your cancer program or practice provides to disparate patient populations, including Black, Latinx, Asian, and other people of color, LGBTQ+ community members, older Americans, and those who live in rural areas. Participants will explore issues around cultural humility, internal and system bias, empathy, building trust with communities, the importance of diverse perspectives, and the role these perspectives play in the development of goals and tasks necessary to build sustainable and productive community coalitions. 

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to recognize the importance of the interconnection of internal bias training and community engagement.
2. Participants will understand what they bring to the table and how this understanding will help build trust and cultural humility, increasing productive and sustainable community engagement and coalition building.
3. Participants will explore the importance of proactively engaging diverse perspectives within coalitions and the role they play in the development of goals and tasks.

Agenda:

• Introductions
• Small group discussions of case studies and scenarios 
• Output report from small group discussions, including real-time feedback from facilitators and participants 
• Large group discussion about the work that needs to be done before participants engage communities and exchange of best practices
• Closing remarks

This interactive training focuses on exploring the concept of implicit bias and how our values and experiences play a big role in how we work at our cancer programs and practices. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their own values and how those values affect how they perceive themselves and the world around them. This training will also provide participants with strategies to examine how they can check their assumptions to better support their staff, patients, and broader community.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify how personal values and assumptions impact cancer programs and practices, co-workers, patients with cancer, and their caregivers and families.
2. Participants will be able to recognize the importance of culturally relevant information and how it’s critical to working effectively with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) patients, family, and communities.
3. Participants will be able to express the important role of values and articulate how assumptions operate in their cancer programs and practices to better treat and communicate with colleagues and all patients.

Agenda:

• Introductions
• Level-setting: defining critical race terms. Participants will gain a better understanding of the common terminology and concepts within race and equity, including the four different levels of racism, in order to lay the foundation for the rest of the session.
• Life values and the Ladder of Inference. Using a concrete tool to check how biases are formed, participants will discuss relevant scenarios common in cancer programs and practices as well as with patients and determine how to slow down their assumptions.
• Values voting activity. Building on the last activity, participants will put their critical thinking to the test to build compassion for situations their patients and community members may be facing.
• Closing remarks

This interactive training will give participants an opportunity to re-engage with their passion for why they work in oncology, and a special chance to reflect with their colleagues on working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants will learn from each other about strategies to tackle burnout, revive their joy in cancer care delivery, and think positively about the future. They will have time to describe their own needs, as individuals, that will ultimately help them better enjoy their work, colleagues, and workplace. The session will identify strategies to promote resiliency and individual self-care, keeping in mind the increased burden that working remotely may continue to have.   

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to discuss the challenges posed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the toll it took on their self-care practices both inside and outside of work.
2. Participants will be able to recognize their own self-care needs and how to advocate for themselves and their staff/colleagues.
3. Participants will be able to identify strategies to mitigate stress and re-find the joy of working in a cancer care setting.

Agenda:

• Introductions
• Grounding activity (e.g., meditation)
• Reflection time
• Wellness wheel discussion. Using a tool to help identify areas of life that may be under stress, participants will have time to discuss their own self-care needs and how to advocate for themselves.
• Finding joy networking time via round robin. Participants will have time to network with their colleagues about the joys of their profession and talk about best practices to maintain it moving forward.
• Positive affirmations and work pact. Participants will think about the power of the positive and decide how they want to show up at work for themselves, their patients, and their staff.
• Closing remarks

Challenges in Operationalizing Recent Clinical Advances from National Conferences

1:30 – 1:35PM EDT
Welcome and Pre-Activity Assessment
Jorge J. García, PharmD, MS, MHA, MBA, FACHE, ACCC Board Member and Assistant Vice President, Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute (Workshop Facilitator)

1:35 – 1:55 PM EDT
Breast Cancer
Reshma Mahtani, DO, Chief of Breast Medical Oncology, Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute

1:55 – 2:15 PM EDT
Lung Cancer
Luis E. Raez, MD, FACP, FCCP, Chief Scientific Officer & Medical Director, Memorial Regional Hospital, Memorial Cancer Institute

2:15 – 2:35 PM EDT
Next-Generation Sequencing Testing: Reflex Testing Interpretation
Luis E. Raez, MD, FACP, FCCP, Chief Scientific Officer & Medical Director, Memorial Regional Hospital, Memorial Cancer Institute

2:35 – 3:10 PM EDT
Emerging Novel Cellular and Targeting Therapies in Hematologic Malignancies
Guenther Koehne, MD, PhD, Deputy Director and Chief of Blood & Marrow Transplant, Hematologic Oncology, and Benign Hematology, Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute

Practice Management Strategies to Improve Cancer Care Delivery and the Patient Experience

3:10 – 3:35 PM EDT
Innovative Solutions to Navigate Evolving Payor Policies Related to Infusion Services
Jorge J. García, PharmD, MS, MHA, MBA, FACHE, ACCC Board Member and Assistant Vice President, Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute

3:35 – 3:55 PM EDT
Optimizing Care for Patient Centricity and Institutional Stability
Wendi Waugh, BS, RT(R)(T), CMD, CTR, ACCC Board Member and Administrative Director of SOMC Cancer Services & Ambulatory Infusion, Southern Ohio Medical Center

3:55 – 4:15 PM EDT
Addressing Staff Burnout Issues with Intelligent Process Design
Matt Manning, MD, FASTRO, Radiation Oncologist
Caroline Vanderstraeten, DABR, Medical Physicist
Cone Health Cancer Center

4:15 – 4:30 PM EDT
Wrap-Up Panel-Q&A
Post-activity assessment

Cancer programs are continuously considering how to maintain focus on value-based cancer care delivery. This workshop will examine how to screen for and capture social determinants of health (SDOH), examine the economics of remote patient monitoring (RPM) including how to diversify revenue streams through proper billing, and how to address coverage for services across various health insurance plans. Finally, we will explore how to prepare for Oncology Care Model’s (OCM) successor.

Training Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to summarize how to screen for and capture SDOH data in the clinical setting, how to use clinical data to risk-stratify patients, and identify opportunities to improve quality, and address barriers driving increased healthcare utilization.
2. Participants will be able to outline the economics of RPM and how to diversify revenue streams by properly billing for RPM, Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM), Chronic Care Management (CCM), and Principal Care Management (PCM). Participants will also be able to summarize coverage for these services across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial health plans.
3. Participants will be able to explain what cancer programs need to understand to be able to implement OCM 2.0.

Agenda:

1:30 – 1:45 PM  
Welcoming Remarks 
Anne Marie F. Rainey, MSN RN CHC, Director of Quality and Value-Based Care, Clearview Cancer Institute (Facilitator)