# Presentation: 089278

## CDRP Program  Steering Committee

**Dwight E. Heron, MD**
**UPMC McKeesport**
**February 2, 2007**
**Tampa, FL**

## UPMC McKeesport Highlights

**Supplemental funding received for clinical trials effort at UPMC McKeesport site**
**Provides for**
**CRC (1FTE) hired**
**Data Coordinator (.5FTE)-pending **

## UPMC McKeesport Highlights

**Barriers to clinical trials effort at UPMC McKeesport**
**Several physicians have no formal affiliation with UPMC Health System or University of Pittsburgh (IRB of record for McKeesport)**
**Solution**
**Working with local mentor (U Pitt) to establish affiliation with Pitt for these docs**
**Assisting with coordination of eligibility requirements necessary to conduct trials**

## UPMC McKeesport Highlights

**Navigator Study Defined and data collection begun**
**Notification by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of eligibility for Health Formula Funds (tobacco settlement monies)**
**Appropriation of $58k**
**UPMC McKeesport has dedicated funds to our research efforts**

## UPMC McKeesport Highlights

**Patient navigation program initiated in 2 additional sites for a total of 4 hospitals served (spanning 3 health systems in the W. Pa. region)**
**Somerset Oncology Center**
**UPMC McKeesport**

## Status All Trials (2006 Summary)

## Navigator & Behavioral Trials

**UPMC McKeesport/ROCOG Radiation Oncology Minorities Outreach Program - Patient Navigator**
**McKeesport, Mercy, New Castle, Somerset**
**How can radiation oncologists better serve their patients? A randomized study to determine whether radiation oncologists can improve patient satisfaction by attempting to meet their patients' preferences**
**McKeesport, Murtha, New Castle**

## Navigator Study

**Aims**
**Assess outcomes between patients in navigator program (Jameson [intervention site]) and non-navigator program (Murtha [control site])**
**Assess outcomes between eligible patients who participated in navigator program and those who did not participate in the program at Jameson**

## Navigator Study (cont)

**Research questions**
**Did more navigated patients receive treatment that those not navigated?**
**Did more navigated patients receive treatment sooner than those not navigated?**
**Did radiation treatment occur consistent with what was prescribed? **

## Navigator Study (cont)

## TELESYNERGY Use 2006

**CDRP Collaboration Conferences – 4**
**Conference with other CDRP sites**
**CDRP Staff – 2**
**Conference with CDRP staff/NOVA**
**Community Sessions – 2**
**Mentor Sessions – 6**
**Tumor Board – 45**
**Tumor Board (thoracic) –12**

## TELESYNERGY Use

## Publication Summary2006

**Peer Reviewed Manuscripts Published**
**26 (D. Heron lead or co-author)**
**Manuscripts Accepted for Publication**
**5 (Schwaderer, Morgenlander, et al)**
**Manuscripts Submitted**
**1 (Lin, et al)**
**Abstracts/Presentations**
**10 (ASTRO, RSNA, ATA, PAC3, ICCC, Disparities Summit, Academy Health representing national and state venues)**

## Manuscripts Accepted for Publication

**Schwaderer:  Bridging the health care divide with patient navigation: Development of a research program to address health care disparities; Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing**
**Morgenlander, et al:  Use of community-based participatory research to influence local health policy; Journal of Health and Social Policy**
**Morgenlander, et al:  A community hospital-based collaborative research program to reduce radiation oncology disparities: an organizational case study; Journal of Health and Social Policy****	**
**Morgenlander, et al:  A community hospital-based, collaborative research program to reduce radiation oncology disparities:  Evaluation of formative development; Journal of Health and Social Policy**
**Morgenlander, et al:  A community hospital-based collaborative research program to reduce radiation oncology disparities: initial infrastructure, program and evaluation ...; Journal of Health and Social Policy**

## Manuscripts Submitted

**Lin, et al:  Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Urban Communities **

## Abstracts & Presentations2006

**10****th**** Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved and Cancer April 19, 2006:  Breaking barriers: A navigator program of cancer care for the underserved populations (poster)**
**American Telemedicine Association May 9, 2006; A multi-institutional regional/mobility model: Deployment for TELESYNERGY Telemedicine Systems (poster)**
**ASTRO 2006; A comprehensive outcomes-based planning and evaluation program for implementing TELESYNERGY and other videoconferencing approaches in radiation oncology (poster)**
**ASTRO 2006; The utility of TELESYNERGY videoconferencing systems for support of QA/CQI and professional communications in radiation oncology facilities (poster)**

## Abstracts & Presentations 2006 (cont)

**RSNA 2006; Can therapists contribute to pain management in a community radiation oncology practice?  (poster)**
**RSNA 2006; Diverse S-video input/output connections: Enhancing TELESYNERGY and other videoconferencing systems ... (poster)**
**Cancer Health Disparities Summit 2006;  CDRP site Partnerships (oral)**
**Pa. Cancer Control Consortium Summit 2006; Patient navigation: Weathering the storm (oral)**
**Pa. Cancer Control Consortium Summit 2006; Breast cancer risk assessment among underserved community residents (oral)**
**Academy Health 2006; Evaluation of the Tailored Patient Navigator Programs for the Underserved Populations with Cancer (poster)**