On Saturday, November 5, 2022, a Quebec MPN Patient Education Conference was held both in person and virtually at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM).
Presentations were made by Nurse Clinician Sabrina Fowlkes, Jewish General Hospital (JGH), Dr. Shireen Sirhan, MPN Specialist (JGH) and Dr. Natasha Szuber, hematologist-oncologist and clinical researcher at Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont and Kinesiologist Caroline Venne.
Patient Wendy's Key Takeaways:
Become an expert on your diagnosis
Knowledge is power
Discuss what you learn with your physician
Resources
Dr Sirhan and Dr Szuber - Presentation on Unmet Needs + Quality of Life
Kinésiologue en oncologie Caroline Venne - Conférence NMP
Nurse Sabrina Fowles - Prepare for your visit with your MPN doctor (checklist download)
Special thanks to Quebec's MPN Patient Network for allowing us to re-share these resources with our community.