Preliminary Program At A Glance
Saturday, April 21 and Sunday April 22
Building on the success of the past three years we are pleased to present a conference that reflects the importance of interprofessional collaboration to support patient centred care in these times of rapidly advancing technology. As in previous years we will be providing a good
blend of technical and supportive care topics in plenary, workshop and poster sessions. (a glance at last year's program.)

The program includes a keynote speaker on both Saturday and Sunday, followed by plenary sessions with workshops being offered in concurrent sessions in the afternoon. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference. There will also be plenty of time to interact and dialogue with colleagues.

Our keynote speakers include Linda Rabeneck, Regional Vice President, Cancer Care Ontario, and Vice President, Regional Cancer Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Jack Cunningham, the previous Head of Clinical Physics at Princess Margaret Hospital. Linda Rabeneck will speak about the importance of multiprofessional collaboration in this era of accelerated technological development and expanding roles and responsibilities of the health care team. Jack Cunningham has the unique perspective of witnessing the exponential change in technology in radiation therapy since the development of the first Canadian Cobalt teletherapy unit in the 1950's. His historical view and anecdotes will provide a lively session for the audience.

In addition, our keynote speakers will be followed by two stimulating plenary sessions. On Saturday, Miles Johnston, Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, and Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, will speak about the importance of the lymphatic system in cancer patients and the problem of lymphedema as a result of cancer treatments. On Sunday, Mary Preece, Provost and Vice President, Academic at the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences will be speaking about exciting educational initiatives in interprofessional education.

Preliminary Program At A Glance (to be confirmed)
Saturday, April 21, 2007
8:15–9:00	Registration and Refreshments	Main Foyer
9:00–9:05	Introduction and Welcome Ruth Barker and Maurene McQuestion, Co-Chairs	Grand Room A/B
9:05–9:10	Opening Remarks Mary Gospodarowicz
9:10-9:50	Keynote Speaker: Linda Rabeneck Expanding Scope of Practice: Lessons from Nurse-Performed Flexible Sigmoidoscopy in Ontario
9:50–9:55	Question & Answer Period
9:55–10:40	Plenary Session: Miles Johnston Lymphedema: Current Concepts and Future Opportunities
10:40–10:45	Question & Answer Period
10:45–11:15	Break/Exhibitors	Main Foyer
11:15–12:40	Clinical Practice / Education Plenary Abstract Presentations
	Collaborating to Strengthen Thoracic Oncology Services Max Dahele, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre From Concept to Kitchen: The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation Cancer Cookbook Project Daniela Fierini, Princess Margaret Hospital Lunch is Served: The Development & Evaluation of an Innovative Multi-language, Multimedia Educational Tool Demonstrating the Delivery of Gravity Enteral Feed James Smith, Princess Margaret Hospital Radiation and Systemic Oncology Patients Within Rural Northern Ontario Communities: Follow-up via Videoconferencing Nicole McDonald, Regional Cancer Program of the Hopital Regional de Sudbury Establishing the Optimal Team: The Rapid Access Palliative Radiotherapy Program at the Cross Cancer Institute Brenda Rose, Cross Cancer Institute
12:40–12:45	Morning Wrap Up and Announcements
12:45–1:50	Lunch	Dining Room
2:00–3:45	Concurrent Sessions
	Session A: Promoting Patient-centred Lymphedema Treatment and Self Management: The PMH Approach Joyce Nyhof-Young & Aleksandra Chafranskaia, Princess Margaret Hospital
	Session B: Drama in Education & Research Workshop Bill Whiteside, Marc Potvin & Martin Chai, The Michener Institute
	Session C: Technical Oral Abstracts
	Hemithoracic Radiation Therapy after Extrapleural Pneumonectomy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma - From 3D to IMRT and IGRT Simon Leung, Princess Margaret Hospital Designing a Quality Assurance (QA) Program for an Online Planning and treatment Process Using Cone-beam CT Anita Vloet, Princess Margaret Hospital The Introduction of TomoTherapy Hi-Art System: Initial Experience at the Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre Michelle Hunter, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre A Dynamic Multimodality Image Guidance Process for Liver Cancer Radiotherapy Cynthia Eccles, Princess Margaret Hospital A Retrospective Comparison of Three CT-MRI Registration Methods to Improve Prostate Cancer Delineation in Radiotherapy (RT) Planning Lorella Divanbeigi, Princess Margaret Hospital Cone-beam CT Guided Lung Radiotherapy: Suitability of Bone, Carina and Tumour for Daily Treatment Verification Jane Higgins, Princess Margaret Hospital
3:45-	Posters Meet the Authors Wine and Cheese	Room 13
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
8:15–9:00	Registration and Refreshments	Main Foyer
9:00–9:05	Introduction and Welcome Ruth Barker and Maurene McQuestion, Co-Chairs	Grand Room A/B
9:05–9:10	Opening Remarks Doug Moseley
9:10–9:50	Keynote Speaker: Jack Cunningham Before Sherbourne Street and Beyond
9:50–9:55	Question & Answer Period
9:55–10:40	Plenary Session: Mary Preece Collaboration: A Prescription for What Ails Us
10:40–10:45	Question & Answer Period
10:45–11:15	Break/Exhibitors	Main Foyer
11:15–12:40	Technical Plenary Abstract Presentations
	An Innovative Approach to Immobilization for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy of Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma Colleen Euler, Princess Margaret Hospital   An Optical Approach to Patient Positioning and Monitoring Fanny Sie, Princess Margaret Hospital Assessing the Impact of Breathing Pattern Changes on Respiratory Gated Radiation Therapy with Electronic Portal Image Cine Loops and CT Chantal MacDonald, London Regional Cancer Centre Application of a New Radiotherapeutic Technique to Plan, Verify, and Administer Craniospinal Irradiation in the Supine Position Heather Guscott, Princess Margaret Hospital Reproducibility of Liver Position Using Abdominal Compression to Reduce Breathing Motion During Radiotherapy Cynthia Eccles, Princess Margaret Hospital
12:40-12:45	Question & Answer Period
12:45–1:50	Lunch	Dining Room
2:00–3:45	Concurrent Sessions
	Session A: Exploring Interprofessional and Collaborative Roles for Patient Centered Care in Radiation Medicine Ewa Szumacher, Toni Barnes, Tracey DasGupta, & Kalli Stilos, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre Nicole Harnett, Princess Margaret Hospital, and Nina Horvath, Mount Sinai Hospital
	Session B: Clinical Practice / Education Abstract Orals
	Enhanced Practice for Radiation Therapists at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre Yvette Bayliss, Tom Baker Cancer Centre Development of an In-house Training Model for Conebeam X-Ray Volumetric Imaging Angela Cashell, Princess Margaret Hospital   Innovative Curriculum in a Canadian Undergraduate Medical Radiation Sciences Program: Self-driven Learning Supporting Interdisciplinary Education and Training for Clinical Practice Lisa DiProspero, The Michener Institute  Interprofessional Learning Andrew Williams, University of Portsmouth, UK    A Canadian First: Permanent Breast Seed Implant in Early Stage Breast Cancer Lisa Verity, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre   A Proposed Model for Interprofessional Radiotherapy Patient Weekly Review Clinics John Maamoun, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre
3:45-4:00	Summary, Closing Remarks and Evaluation Ruth Barker and Maurene McQuestion, Co-Chairs	Grand Room A/B
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