Background, Goals & Plan:
Background
The Canadian Leukemia Study Group is an organization comprised of a network of
leukemia experts from across the country. The mission of this group is to improve
the diagnosis and treatment of acute leukemia in Canada by:
- Identifying and defining diagnostic and management best practices
- Promoting Canada-wide standards-of-care
- Fostering clinical and basic leukemia research
- Improving new drug access.
Nurses are important members of this organization. The focus of their practice is to
ensure patients receive their treatments in a safe, timely and patient-centered
manner. To further this goal, a Nurse Interest Group has been formed as one of the
working groups of CLSG.
Deliverables
The purpose of the Nurse Interest Group is to:
- Identify/develop best practice guidelines for managing disease-
related complications - Identify/develop best practice guidelines for managing toxicities
associated with therapies being administered - Standardize care around the monitoring/assessment of patients with
leukemia - Facilitate/promote nurse led-research
- Foster national relationships by establishing connections and
communication with nurses across Canadian centers
Meetings
The Nurse Interest Group will meet quarterly using a virtual meeting space. Minutes
will be kept of all meetings and distributed to members.
Reporting
The Nurse Interest Group will provide a brief report on their activities to the CLSG
Board annually or as required by the Executive.
Membership
Nurses working with acute leukemia patients in their practice.
Steering Committee
- Chair: presides over group meetings to ensure orderly conduct
- Vice Chair: assumes duties of chair in their absence
- Secretary: assumes administrative duties including organization of
meetings, meeting notes, recording meeting attendance - Ad hoc members
Decision-Making Process
Decisions will be made by member consensus. If there are any issues where
consensus is not achieved, the decision-making process will be decided upon by the
Chair in consultation with the rest of the steering committee.
Interest Group Sub-committees
- Project Development: (Members submit project ideas to the sub-
committee. The sub-committee will provide feedback and support in
the form of idea refinement, connecting members with CLSG
resources, and helping facilitate presentation to the CLSG Board of
Directors
Steering Committee members:
- Chair: Cindy Murray (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre)
- Vice-chair: Hassan Zahreddine (Hamilton Health Sciences Centre)
- Secretary: Christina Mueller (Sunnybrook)
- Project Sub-committee Lead: Lindsay McCarthy (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre)
- Project sub-committee members: Lindsay McCarthy; Danielle Brandys (Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre) ; Shannon Nixon (Stronach Regional Cancer Centre) ; Cindy Murray
CLSG-nurses’ working group members (as of Dec. 2021)
- Danielle Brandys: brandysd@rvh.on.ca
- Aria Conn: nectaria.conn@bccancer.bc.ca
- Andrea Couse: cousea@rvh.ca
- Nicole Crisp: Nicole.crisp@albertahealthservices.ca
- Ashley Dobbin: dobbina@rvh.on.ca
- Adrienne Fulford: Adrienne.fulford@lhsc.on.ca
- Jennifer Grando: grandoj@rvh.on.ca
- Jane Huynh: jhuynh@lh.ca
- Kari Kolm: kolm@hhsc.ca
- Alix Lapworth: lapworth@hhsc.ca
- Kirsten Lewis: Kirsten.lewis@uhn.ca
- Gay Lam: gay.lam@albertahealthservices.ca
- Lindsay McCarthy: Lindsay.mccarthy@uhn.ca
- Kit McCann: kit.mccann@wrh.on.ca
- Christina Mueller: Christina.mueller@sunnybrook.ca
- Cindy Murray: cindy.murray@uhn.ca
- Shannon Nixon: snixon@southlakeregional.org
- Alyson Parker: Alyson.parker6@vch.ca
- Jessica Pilkington: Jessica.pilkington@uhn.ca
- alijit Randhawa: balijit.randhawa2@ahs.ca
- Jessica Rebeiro: rebeiro@hhsc.ca
- Ruby Sangha: ruby.sangha@sunnybrook.ca
- Hassan Zahreddine: zahreddine@hhsc.ca
