Miami Cancer Institute’s Oncology Rehab Symposium: Restoring Function and Maximizing Quality of Life
Cancer is a public health problem of major proportions. Each year, more than 600,000 people in the United States die from cancer. There have been many advances in the practice of rehabilitation medicine, psychology, neurology and other clinical specialties that identify and treat patients with cancer. Fatigue and loss of physical performance are frequent problems of cancer patients. This symposium will provide practical, evidence-based strategies to accurately treat oncology patients of various types, including contraindications for treatment.
Target Audience
Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Psychiatrists, Neuropsychologists, Physiatrists, General Internists, Oncologists, Family Practice Physicians, Pediatricians, Physical Therapists and Assistants, Occupational Therapists and Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists, Nurses, Social Workers, Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists and Athletic Trainers.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the areas of rehabilitation practice and clinical interventions that have strong and moderate levels of evidence for integration into oncology care.
- Align cancer rehabilitation with survivorship care services and utilize frameworks for integration and collaboration of care.
- Evaluate clinical pathways for exercise and rehabilitative interventions for implementation into practice.
- Describe the various causes, types and stages of lymphedema.
- Recognize the indications of lymphedema and utilize appropriate precautions in cancer patients.
- Prescribe appropriate treatment for cancer patients with lymphedema.
- Recognize the impact of breast cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy on shoulder anatomy and function.
- Diagnose commonly seen shoulder impairments in breast cancer patients and prescribe the most appropriate treatment options.
- Describe the neuromuscular impairments associated with gynecologic cancers and their treatment, including paraneoplastic syndromes, post-surgical complications, post-chemotherapy and post-radiation therapy.
- Utilize the multimodal approach needed to address the functional impairments caused by the neuromuscular issues associated with gynecologic cancers.
- Outline recent trends in head and neck cancer.
- Describe the technological advances in surgery for head and neck cancer patients.
- Recognize the benefits and ongoing need for rehabilitation in head and neck cancer patients.
- Outline the dysphagia treatment protocols utilized in patients receiving treatment for head and neck cancers at Miami Cancer Institute.
- Describe normal swallowing physiology and identify how each phase of swallowing can be impacted by head and neck cancer treatment.
- Recognize signs of dysphagia and its impact on quality of life using outcome measures tools.
- Describe the prevalence, phenomenology and course of cancer-related cognitive dysfunction (CRCD) in patients with breast cancer.
- Identify risk factors associated with CRCD.
- Outline the neuroanatomical correlates and pathophysiology of CRCD.
- Utilize appropriate treatment strategies for CRCD.
- Identify common chemotherapeutic agents and their pathophysiologic mechanisms associated with peripheral neuropathy.
- Describe neuropathy grading scales and assessments of neuropathy in the cancer patient, including the role for electrodiagnosis.
- Appropriately prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions used to prevent and manage CIPN.
- Describe the cardiovascular consequences of anticancer therapy.
- Analyze the effects exercise can have to prevent and/or attenuate cardiovascular dysfunction in patients receiving anticancer therapy.
- Explore effects of exercise as a potential treatment for cancer.
SCHEDULE
7:30 a.m. Breakfast and Registration
8:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Michael Zinner, M.D., Miami Cancer Institute, CEO & Executive Medical Director
8:30 a.m. Cancer Rehabilitation: Current State of the Science and Future Horizons
Nicole L. Stout, DPT, Keynote Speaker
10:00 a.m. Break and Exhibits
10:15 a.m. Introduction to Lymphedema
Adriana Reyes, OTR, CLT
11:00 a.m. Shoulder Pain and Dysfunction in Breast Cancer
Adrian Cristian, M.D.
11:45 a.m. Lunch and Exhibits
12:45 p.m. Neuromuscular Complications of Gynecologic Cancers
Christian Marcel Custodio, M.D.
1:30 p.m. New Concepts in Head and Neck Cancer
Geoffrey D. Young, M.D., Ph.D.
2:15 p.m. Dysphagia Related to Head and Neck Cancer: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Mary E. Owens, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Cancer-Related Cognitive Dysfunction (CRCD): Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Management
Maria Beatriz Currier, M.D.
3:45 p.m. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN)
Christian Marcel Custodio, M.D.
4:30 p.m. Exercise Therapy for Patients Diagnosed With Cancer
Lee W. Jones, Ph.D.
5:15 p.m. Adjourn
Adrian Cristian, M.D., MHCM – SYMPOSIUM DIRECTOR
Chief, Cancer Rehabilitation
Miami Cancer Institute
Maria Beatriz Currier, M.D.
Medical Director, Cancer Patient Support Center
Chief, Psychiatric Oncology
Miami Cancer Institute
Christian Marcel Custodio, M.D.
Associate Clinical Member
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Lee W. Jones, Ph.D.
Attending Physiologist
Chief, Exercise-Oncology Service
Department of Medicine, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Mary E. Owens, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Miami Cancer Institute
Ariana Reyes, OTR, CLT
Occupational Therapist
Miami Cancer Institute
Nicole L. Stout, DPT, CLT-LANA, FAPTA
Clinical Research Scientist / Physical Therapist
Research Assistant Professor
West Virginia University Cancer Institute
School of Medicine, Department of Hematology Oncology
Morgantown, West Virginia
Geoffrey D. Young, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Head and Neck Surgery
Miami Cancer Institute
Adrian Cristian, M.D., has indicated that he receives financial or material support from Elsevier and Springer publishers, and he will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in his presentation or discussion.
Lee W. Jones, Ph.D., has indicated that he is a shareholder of Pacylex, Inc., and he will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in his presentation or discussion.
Nicole L. Stout, DPT, has indicated that she is a consultant for Survivorship Solutions, LLC, and she will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in her presentation or discussion.
The following faculty members have indicated that neither they nor their spouses/partners have relevant financial relationships with commercial interest companies:
Maria Beatriz Currier, M.D.
Christian Marcel Custodio, M.D.
Mary E. Owens, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Ariana Reyes, OTR, CLT
Geoffrey D. Young, M.D., Ph.D.
All faculty members have indicated that they will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in their presentation(s) or discussion(s).
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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Accreditation and Credits
Baptist Health provides accredited continuing education (CME/CE) to doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity has been approved for 7.5 credit hours by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, the Florida Council of Physician Assistants and the Florida Board of Psychology (7.5 credits). CE Broker Course #20-698753.
Approved for a total of 7.5 contact hours by the Florida State Board of Nursing, Athletic Trainers, Pharmacists, Respiratory Therapists and Occupational Therapists.. CE Broker Provider #50-182. CE Broker Course #20-698753.
This course is approved for 9 continuing education credits by the Florida Board of Physical Therapy Practice, course approval CE Broker Course #20-698753 , FPTA approval #CE20-698753. Accreditation of this course does not necessarily imply that the FPTA supports the views of the presenter or the sponsors.
Available Credit
- 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 7.50 Florida Board of Athletic Training
- 7.50 General certificate of attendance
- 7.50 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
- 7.50 Nurse Practitioners
- 7.50 Florida Board of Nursing
- 7.50 Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
- 7.50 Florida Board of Pharmacy
- 9.00 Florida Board of Physical Therapy Practice
- 7.50 Florida Board of Psychology
- 7.50 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
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