Speaker Series

Upcoming Speaker Session

COMING SOON:
Understanding and Managing Oral Mucositis

July 2025

Speaker and Session Details coming soon!

[On Demand] Educational Speaker Program

Note: Continuing education (CE) credits are no longer available on recorded programs.

Prevention & Treatment of Radiation Dermatitis in Breast Cancer
Dr. Lior Braunstein

This session will be presented by Dr. Lior Braunstein, a board-certified radiation oncologist and scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, specializing in treating localized or metastatic breast cancer. In this session, Dr. Braunstein will be discussing how prevent and treat Radiation Dermatitis in breast cancer patients.

Objectives:

Recognize the Types of Breast Radiation

Identify Radiation Dermatitis and Prevention

Understand Symptomatic Dermatitis Management

Understand Long Term Outcomes of Radiation Dermatitis

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Managing Wound Pain During Dressing Changes
Ruth Illiuta, APRN, CNS BC, CWCN, COCN

In this session, Ruth Illiuta, APRN, CNS BC, CWCN, COCN discusses managing wound pain through the use of ALOCANE® Plus.

Objectives:

Understand the Types of Wound-Related Pain and Abnormal Pain Response

Identify Assessment Methods to Understand the Patient’s Pain

Recognize the Emotional Component and Its Effect on the Perception of Pain

Evaluate treatment strategies to Reduce Pain During Cleansing, Applying or Removing Dressings

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Brain Injury & Bowel Care
Linda Schultz, PhD, CRRN

In this session Linda Schultz, PhD, CRRN, covers the topic of brain injury and bowel care.

Objectives:

Distinguish the three types of brain injury

Understand the effects of brain injury and body function

Understand the brain-gut axis in brain injury (BI)

Understand the effect of brain injury on the bowel

Discuss the treatment for neurogenic bowel

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The Neurologically Impaired Gut in Children: Little Brain Issues in the Large Intestine
Dr. Rinarani Sanghavi

In this session, Dr. Rinarani Sanghavi, a pediatric gastroenterologist in Dallas, Texas, will discuss causes, symptoms and treatment for dysfunctional bowel in adolescence.

Objectives:

Normal Gut Motility

Physiology of Defecation

Clinical Features

Neurogenic Bowel Management – Medical

Neurogenic Bowel Management – Surgical

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Assessment and Management of Bowel Issues Post Stroke
Cissi Wimberly Oloomi MSN, RN, CNS, FNP, CNRN, CRRN

In this session, presenter, Cissi Wimberly Oloomi MSN, RN, CNS, FNP, CNRN, CRRN will discuss stroke types, clinical presentation, bowel issues and assessment and intervention.

Objectives:

Describe the 2 Types of Stroke and Contributing Factors and Causes

Discuss Common Clinical Presentation of Stroke

Compare and Contrast Common Bowel Issues Post-Stroke

Describe Assessment and Intervention for Motor and Sensory Disturbances, Language Communication, Cognitive Thinking and Emotion and Personality changes

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Pediatric Bowel and Bladder Dysfunction: Causes and Treatments
Dr. Steve Hodges

This session will be presented by Dr. Steve Hodges, a pediatric urologist at Wake Forest School of Medicine specializing in urinary incontinence, bedwetting and bladder exstrophy. In this session, Dr. Hodges will be discussing the causes and treatments for pediatric bowel and bladder dysfunction.

Objectives:

Identify and Describe Dysfunctional Elimination Syndrome/Bladder Bowel Dysfunction (BBD).

Review the Rome IV Criteria for Constipation the Bristol Stool Chart.

Understand the Causes on Non-Neurogenic Pediatric Constipation.

Understand the Diagnosis and Assessment in Constipation.

Understand How to Treat Children with Non-Neurogenic Pediatric Constipation.

Urodynamics – Understand the Role.

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