The purpose of this symposium is to build on the work of the 2nd International Cancer Fatigue Symposium, with particular emphasis on the definition of fatigue, new developments in cachexia and sarcopenia, fatigue as a stress response, and central and peripheral fatigue mechanisms.
Friday, October 12, 2012
16:00
Registration and Refreshments
17:00
Welcome and Introductions (5 minutes)
Karin Olson, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta
17:05
Industry-sponsored Symposium on Development of a Case Definition
Chair: Karin Olson
Historical Background (30 minutes)
David Cella, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Paul Jacobsen, Chair, Department of Health Outcomes & Behavior, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
Description of MASCC Definition Project (15 minutes)
Karin Olson, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta
Barbara Piper, Professor, Scottsdale Healthcare/University of Arizona Chair of Nursing Research, University of Arizona College of Nursing, Scotsdale, AZ
Discussion Panel (75 minutes)
Donna Picket, Medical Systems Administrator, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, Hyattville, MD
Lori Moskal, Classification Specialist, Canadian Insitut for Health Information (CIHI), Ottawa, ON
TBC, rep from Health Protection branch
TBC, rep from Industry (sponsor?)
19:15
Reception and Dinner
Saturday, October 13, 2012
8:30
Continental Breakfast
9:00
Welcome and Introductions
Karin Olson, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta
Fatigue interventions 1
Chair: Bruno Gagnon ??
In this session we present a series of papers on interesting new fatigue interventions
Session 1: Non pharma interventions
Chair: Alex Molassiotis, Manchester University, UK
(could have 2 papers here – Alex molassiotis, and Karen Mustian (university of Rochester)
10:00
Break
10:30
11:30
Lunch
13:00
Session Session 2: Pharmacologic interventions for fatigue
Chair: XXXXXXX
Probably 1 or 2 papers
14:00
Rapid-Fire Session
Chair: Andrea Laizner, Nursing Practice Consultant-Research, MUHC; Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, McGill University; Researcher, UHC Saint-Justine, Montréal, QC
Presentation of selected abstracts in a rapid-fire format (10 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions)
