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Jim Panchaud, MSW, RSW

Social Worker, London Regional Cancer Program

(presentation date May 30, 2011)

Jim Panchaud has practiced social work since 1996 when he obtained his Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from the University of Toronto. During that time, he has worked in various settings including: Child Protection, Individual, Couple and Family Counselling, and Hospital Social Work (Emergency, ICU, Medicine, and Cancer Care).

He is currently the social worker for the Genitourinary, Head and Neck, and Thoracic teams at the London Regional Cancer Program. Jim is also in private practice with a particular interest in couples work and e-therapy (online counselling).

Jim is a registered social worker (Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers) and is a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW), the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO), and the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO).

In this session Jim will look at the impact of prostate cancer on couples' relationships and present tools for moving forward together:

Living with the unknown and coping with changes.
How to break the cycle of silence.
How to recreate intimacy through talking and caring gestures.
Where to turn for support.

Permanent Seed Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer

Dr. Nikhilesh Patil, MD, DNB

Brachytherapy Fellow, Radiation Oncology,

London Regional Cancer Program

Dr. David Paul D'Souza, MD, FRCPC

Dr. D'Souza is Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. He completed his Medical Degree at the University of Toronto and his residency at McMaster University (Hamilton) and subsequently did a fellowship in Brachytherapy at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. He currently treats cancers of the prostate and urinary tract, gynecologic and breast cancers and skin cancer with a focus on brachytherapy. His out of work interests include his family, running and playing piano.

Learning objectives:

To discuss the rationale for using permanent seed brachytherapy for prostate cancer
To describe how the procedure is performed, including some of the latest advances in the technique
To discuss the outcomes of the procedure - both side effects and cure rates.

Presented November 22, 2010 (valid until December 1, 2011)

Drug Therapy and Prostate Cancer

Dr. Eric Winquist, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP

Dr. Winquist is a consultant medical oncologist in the London Regional Cancer Program at London Health Sciences Centre and a is Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He completed graduate training in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University.

Dr. Winquist has been a principal investigator and co-investigator in numerous phase I, II and III trials in genitourinary and head & neck cancers. Research interests include new anticancer drug development, systematic reviews and practice guidelines, and translational cancer research.

Dr. Winquist is the Medical Director of the LRCP Clinical Cancer Research Unit, Leader of the Lawson Translational Cancer Research Team, and Chair of the LRCP Medical Oncology Associates. He formerly served as the Chair of the interim interprovincial Joint Oncology Drug Review. Additionally, he sits on the Clinical Trials Committee of the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute NCIC CTG and is a co-chair and member of the Cancer Care Ontario Practice Guideline Initiative in the Genitourinary and Head & Neck Disease Site Committees, respectively.

Learning Objectives:

To understand that treatment resistant prostate cancer is hypersensitive to male hormones
Become aware of the role of chemotherapy in incurable prostate cancer
Become aware of emerging hormonal therapies for prostate cancer.

Presented September 27, 2010 (valid until October 1, 2011)

Prostate Cancer and Erectile Dysfunction

Dr. Gerald Brock is Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in London, Ontario. He completed his Medical and Urology Degrees at McGill University in Montreal and subsequently did a two year fellowship in Neurourology at the University of California, San Francisco. He currently runs a large tertiary care erectile dysfunction clinic at St. Joseph’s Health Care, where he sees between 2000-2500 new consults annually.

Dr. Brock’s work in urology and erectile dysfunction is acknowledged by his role as Editor in Chief of Chronicles of Urology and Sexual Health, CME Section Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Andrology Section Editor of the CUA Journal.

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