Session Five: Project ECHO: Evolving Role of Bispecific Antibodies as Cancer Therapy (Guideline Development in the Community)

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Release Date: July 26, 2024

Expiration Date: July 26, 2025

Overview:

Bispecific antibodies (BsAbs), an emerging class of novel immunotherapy agents, have great therapeutic potential; however, they also present barriers to care including unique and serious treatment-related toxicities that can preclude their widespread use in the community practice setting. To provide optimal care to patients being treated with BsAbs, clinicians must understand the unique pharmacology and potential clinical and logistical challenges of these agents. Successful administration of BsAbs requires competence and effective collaboration among multidisciplinary providers on the cancer care team.

Beginning in 2020, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) initiated research and education focused on the utilization of BsAbs in the community oncology setting. Findings from an ACCC survey illuminated several barriers to using BsAbs in the community setting. Among these, 59% of survey respondents indicated that they have experienced barriers when caring for patients treated with BsAbs.

Target Audience:

The target audience for this initiative includes oncologists, oncology advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners, physician assistants), oncology pharmacists, oncology nurses, and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) involved in treating patients with cancer immunotherapies.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

  • Address barriers to the awareness, preparedness, adoption, and use of bispecific antibodies for the treatment of cancer
  • Improve coordination and communication between community hospitals and academic centers to optimize outcomes and ensure safety for patients being treated with bispecific antibodies
  • Review strategies for providing equitable care for underserved patients receiving cancer immunotherapies

Accreditation/Designation of Credit

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Physicians' Education Resource®, LLC and the Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC). Physicians' Education Resource®, LLC is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physicians' Education Resource®, LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physicians’ Education Resource®, LLC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #16669, for 1.0 Contact Hours.

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Pharmacy Times Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours (0.10 CEU) under the ACPE universal activity number 0290-9999-24-119-H01-P. The activity is available for CE credit through July 26, 2025.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support:  

This activity is supported by an educational grant from Genentech. 

Disclosures and Conflict of Interest (COI) Mitigation 

PER® has identified and mitigated all COI prior to the start of this activity by using a multistep process.

Faculty, Staff, and Planners’ Disclosures 

The following individuals have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose: Caroline Jones, PharmD, Molly Kisiel, MSN, FNP-BC, Mary Stanley, LMSW, PMP, Samantha Steinert, RN, and the staff of Physicians’ Education Resource®, LLC.

Firas El Chaer, MD - Consultant: SPD Oncology, Amgen, CTI Biopharma, AbbVie,  MorphoSys, ACCC, Other: Travel grant, Dava Oncology

Amelia Hodson, AG-ACNP -  Consultant: Geron

Murali Janakiram, MD, MS - Speaker: Janssen

Firas El Chaer, MD

Assistant Professor, UVA Health

Dr. El Chaer is an Assistant Professor of Medicine who specializes in hematology and oncology. His clinical areas of interest are acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloproliferative disorders, aplastic anemia, clonal hematopoiesis, and blood disorders. His research focuses on improving outcomes for acute leukemia in adults by focusing on targeted therapies and overcoming resistance mechanisms. 

Dr. El Chaer attended medical school at the University of Balamand in Beirut, Lebanon, and completed his internal medicine residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in EnglewoodNew Jersey, where he served as chief resident from 2013 - 2014. He then completed a fellowship in infectious diseases for immune-compromised cancer patients at the combined program of Baylor College of Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.  

Dr. El Chaer pursued a fellowship in hematology and oncology with a focus on blood disorders and also completed a built-in fellowship in stem cell transplantation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he served as a chief fellow from 2018 - 2019. 

Amelia Hodson, AG-ACNP

UVA Health

Amelia S. Hodson, AG-ACNP, is a board-certified nurse practitioner, who cares for hospitalized patients undergoing stem cell transplant for blood and other cancers.

She began her career at UVA in 2007 as a registered nurse. She has specialized in oncology (cancer) since 2015. She spent three years as a clinical research nurse in malignant hematology (blood disorders) before transitioning to the hospital unit for oncology and stem cell transplant patients.

She earned her RN degree at UVA and her master’s degree in nursing at Maryville University. She is board-certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an adult geriatric acute care nurse practitioner.

Caroline Jones

PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Leukemia/MDS

UVA Health

Caroline Jones, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist in hematology/oncology at the University of Virginia Health System. Dr. Jones practices as the outpatient clinical pharmacist for malignant hematology, specializing in leukemia and bone marrow failure disorders. Dr. Jones received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy. Following pharmacy school, she completed an ASHP accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency at the University of Virginia Health System

Sam Steinert

RN

UVA Health

Sam earned her Bachelor's in Public Health Studies from Syracuse University and then her BSN from the University of Rochester in 2019. Her first two years of nursing were spent at the University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Center as an impatient Bone Marrow Transplant nurse. Sam took a travel nursing position at the University of Virginia and fell in love with the patients and UVA. She now works as a Care Coordinating RN for the Malignant Hematology department. Sam is passionate about ensuring the complex care needs are consistently met for all patients she serves.

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Project ECHO Session 5
Recorded 06/28/2024  |  60 minutes
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