Sara W Day, PhD, RN, FAAN has focused on the development,
implementation and evaluation of nursing programmes and
models to improve the care of children with cancer and sickle
cell disease. Her programmes and models have improved the
outcomes of underserved children and have been implemented
nationally and internationally in nine countries. She has worked
to empower nurses in developing countries to provide quality
paediatric oncology nursing care and created programmes to
advance the nursing work environment through education and
improvement in quality standards. She has 31 publications in
peer-reviewed medical and nursing journals and has travelled to
14 countries to present or directly implement her programmes.
She was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy
of Nursing for her significant contributions to nursing and
health care.
Julia Challinor, RN, PhD, MS in Education and MS in Med
Anthropology, a former teacher, was the Educational Liaison for
children with cancer and those who had survived their disease
at the University of California, San Francisco from 1993-2003.
From1994-2006, she also headed A Tomorrow for Children
Foundation and worked in partnership with paediatric oncology
centres in Latin America. Her current professional focus is
mentorship of paediatric oncology nurses in Ethiopia and other
developing countries. As an international nursing consultant for
oncology with an anthropological perspective, Dr Challinor
seeks to strengthen nursing resources and opportunities in
countries with limited resources.
Rachel Hollis, FRCN, RGN, RSCN, MHsc is the Lead Nurse for
Children's Cancer at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in the
United Kingdom and has spent most of her professional life
working in paediatric oncology in the acute hospital setting. She
is a member of the SIOP Nurses Steering Committee, and has
represented nursing on the SIOP Scientific Committee. She is a
former Co-Chair of the SIOP Paediatric Oncology in Developing
Countries Nursing Working Group. She has also been an active
member of the Paediatric Oncology Nurses Forum of the Royal
College of Nursing (RCN) in the United Kingdom. She was
awarded a Fellowship of the RCN in recognition of her
contribution to children's cancer nursing.
Linda Abramovitz, RN, MSN, BMTCN is currently a practice
nurse at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Linda was the Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Pediatric Bone
Marrow Transplant Program at UCSF for over 27 years. She
received her BSN from the University of Rochester and MSN
from the University of Pennsylvania. She is actively involved in
paediatric oncology and HSCT nursing as a clinical consultant,
educator and researcher at a local, national and international
level - professional role development for both staff nurses and
advanced practice nurses and the delivery of cultural competent
care has been a focus of Linda's work in LMICs and HICs..
Currently, Linda is a member of the SIOP Nurses Steering
Committee and co-chair of SIOP's Pediatric Oncology
Developing Country Nursing Working Group.
Yuliana Hanaratri, RN, BSN, MAN has been a clinical instructor
for nursing students in major of pediatric nursing practice from
1997 to 2011 and a lecturer as the St. Carolus School of Nursing
Jakarta. She graduated with a Masters degree from the University
of the Philippines in 2004. She has focused on pardiatric oncology
nursing since 2010 and as a nurse educator for the development
programme for children with cancer at the Indonesian Anyo
Foundation Jakarta since 2012 until the present.
She has published practice guidelines based on the Metro
Manila Development Screening Test that is used in training
Indonesian nurses in paediatric assessment. These practice
guidelines are also included in the pediatric nursing curriculum
at the local school of nursing.
Rehana Punjwani, RN, BSN has 14 years of experience in
paediatric oncology nursing, working in both direct patient care
and administration. She is a founding member and currently
Head of the Pediatric Oncology Nursing Education Department
at Children's Cancer Hospital in Pakistan, where she has
developed and taught paediatric oncology nursing courses. She
has worked with Pakistan's Nursing Council to obtain approval
for a post-RN diploma in paediatric oncology nursing offered by
the Paediatric Oncology Nursing Education Department. This is
the only department in Pakistan to offer paediatric oncology
nursing education and the only department licensed to offer a
post-RN diploma.
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