Director-at-Large Member

Current Position

Chief Executive Officer
PANDA Education Consultants, PLLC
Lakeland, Florida

Specialty Areas of Interest

Oncology |  Neuro-Oncology | Palliative Care | Education | Evidence-Based Practice

APHON Membership

APHON Member Since 1992

Local Chapter Membership

APHON–National Capital Chapter Member Since 1992

Education

• DNP: 2012, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
• MS: 1990, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
• BSN: 1980, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Qualifications

APHON National

• Professional Development Committee: Member, 2020–Present
• Evidence-Based Practice & Research Committee:
  • Immediate Past Chair, 2016–2017
  • Chair, 2012–2016
• APHON Counts Committee
  • Column Editor, 2012–2016
  • Column Author
    • “Integrative Therapies: Updates in Pediatric Research,” 2018
    • “Pediatric Cancer Research: Is It History?” 2003
• APHON Board of Directors: Director-at-Large, 2001–2003
• Annual Conference
  • Preconference Workshop Presenter:  ” The Three C’s: Challenging Crucial and Compassionate Conversations,” 2022
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “Professional Development GPS: The Long and Winding Road from Route 1 to Route 101,” 2022
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “Navigating Ethics in Real World Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Practice,” 2021
  • Poster Presentation:“Facilitating Triage and Communication in the Emergency Department for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Patients Enrolled in Hospice,”  2020
  • Preconference Workshop Presenter: “Spirituality, Moral Distress, Unconscious Bias and Caring for Yourself in Pediatric Palliative Care,” 2019
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “They Just Don’t Get It! Unconscious Bias in Caring for Children with Cancer,” 2018
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “Expanding your Educational Horizons – DNP or PhD?” 2017
  • Preconference Workshop Presenter: “Palliative Care Challenges in Caring for Adolescents and Young Adults: Advance Care Planning, Spirituality, and Moral Distress,” 2017
  • Poster Presentation: “Primary Palliative Care Education and Mentoring to Improve Access to Care for Patients with High Risk and Relapsed Cancers,” 2017
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “Promotion of Comfort through Early Palliative Care Consultation,” 2013
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “Molecular-Targeted Therapies for Childhood Brain Tumors,” 2007
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “Palliative Care: Moving from Cure to Comfort,” 2006
  • Concurrent Session Presenter: “Going for the Gold, Focus on Cure, Quality of Life, and Palliative Care in Phase I Clinical Trials,” 2006

Local Chapter

• National Capital Chapter
  • President, 2006–2008
  • Secretary, 1996
• Joint Metro New York/New Jersey/ Long Island Chapter Conference
  • Conference Presentation:  “Unconscious Bias in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing,” 2019
  • Conference Presentation: “Putting the Evidence into Your Practice: Beyond the Basics,” 2016

Other Nursing Leadership

• Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association
  • Advanced Practice Nursing Special Interest Group Member, 2013–Present
  • Bioethics Special Interest Group Member, 2013–Present
  • Pediatric Special Interest Group Member, 2013–Present
  • Research Special Interest Group Co-Chair, 2013–2019
• American Academy of Nursing
  • Fellow, 2019–Present
  • Expert Panel on Palliative and End of Life Care Member, 2022–Present
• Children’s Oncology Group
  • Nursing Committee Member, 1993–2020
  • Palliative Care Committee Member, 203–2017
  • Nursing Scholar (Palliative Care), 2004–2013

Other Volunteer Activities

• Give Kids the WOrld
• Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine
• Special Olympics
• Carol Jean Cancer Foundation, Camp Friendshop
• March of Dimes