BOPA E&T Genomic Webinar 1 – Guiding cancer treatment: Tumour DNA

Tuesday 24th January 2023 at 13:00 – 14:00 GMT – Click HERE to register

The BOPA Education and Training Subcommittee would like to invite you to one of our live webinar sessions on ‘Guiding cancer treatment: Tumour DNA.’

This is part 1 of a series of Genomic Webinars prepared and presented by the BOPA Genomic Medicines Special Interest Group.

This webinar is FREE for all BOPA members and associates.

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This webinar contains pre-webinar material designed to facilitate your understanding of the topic. Please watch the pre-recorded primer videos before the webinar session. Click here to access the 3-part primer videos.

Webinar Chair:

Nisha Shaunak

Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust & Pharmacy Lead, South East Genomic Medicine Service Alliance

Nisha is the Lead Pharmacist for Cancer Services at Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust & Pharmacy Lead for SE GMSA.

Nisha has worked in oncology for 23 years, both in the NHS & private sector. Over the years, she has set up and worked in non-medical prescribing chemotherapy clinics for breast cancer patients, and introduced several new drugs into practice.

In her current role, she oversee the governance and strategic delivery of all systemic anti-cancer therapy services at the Trust and am a wider member of the pharmacy executive team. Until recently, she was also working as a Cancer commissioning Pharmacist at NHS England.

As the Pharmacy ATMP Working Group Chair for the Trust and Pharmacy Lead for South East Genomics Medicines Service Alliance (SE GMSA), she has a special interest in both Genomics and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). She is also involved with national working groups to develop and shape services around these for the future.

Webinar Speaker:

Dharmisha Chauhan

Lead Genomic Pharmacist, North Thames Genomic Medicine Service Alliance hosted by UCLPartners & Specialist Oncology Pharmacist, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Dharmisha Chauhan is the lead pharmacist in the North Thames Genomic Service Alliance leading on the delivery of pharmacogenetic testing and precision medicine into routine clinical practice. This includes the provision of education and training across pharmacy sectors both at a post-graduate and under-graduate levels and supporting the development of pharmacy competencies frameworks. Working with educators the aim is to demystify genomics to pharmacy professionals and ensure all pharmacy professionals have the skills to implement pharmacogenetics and precision medicine within their clinical practice. Across North Thames, Dharmisha has develop a North Thames pharmacy genomic network to help raise awareness of the role of pharmacy within genomic medicine through regular educational engagement sessions. Key projects include leadership in the implementation of pharmacogenetic testing in oncology, haematology, mental health care and drug-induced hearing loss.

Dharmisha is also an oncology pharmacist at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and has clinical experience in sarcoma, skin, melanoma, head and neck and lung cancers. Clinical work surrounds empowering pharmacists and nurses to co-develop joint prescribing clinics and supporting immunotherapy toxicity management and currently works within the lung cancer unit as a prescriber, focusing on targeted treatments.

Register for your free place now via the link at the top of the page. (Note: You must be at least a BOPA FREE associate.)

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Note:

• The Zoom link for the webinar will be sent on the day of the event around 12:30pm (if you would like the link before this time, please email education@bopa.org.uk)
• This webinar contains pre-webinar material designed to facilitate your understanding of genomics. Please watch the pre-recorded primer videos before the webinar session. Click here or the link below to access the primer videos.
  • Genomic Primer Part 1
  • Genomic Primer Part 2
  • Genomic Primer Part 3 coming soon

We look forward to seeing you all.

Best Wishes
BOPA Education & Training Subcommittee