Oncology Pharmacy in Your Community - CAPhO

2007 | NOPS SPEAKER
DR. PAT MACCORMACK-SPEAK
RN, MBA, Program Manager, UPCON, CancerCare Manitoba
BIOGRAPHY
Pat McCormack-Speak (pms) has been a Registered Nurse for 30 years. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from St. Scholatica,
Duluth, Minnesota and a MBA from the Kotz Graduate School of Management, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota.
She LOVES working on innovative projects and over her career she has worked in patient care at the primary health care to tertiary care
level and in the capacity of a direct care provider to administrator.
During her career in Winnipeg, she has worked with the VON, Lions Place for Health, and the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba. Before
coming to Cancer Care Manitoba in 2003, Pat was a Lecturer (Gerontology), Clinical Practice Coordinator undergraduate programs,
and Program Coordinator for the Baccalaureate Programs for Registered Nurses in the Faculty of Nursing, at the University of
Manitoba.
SYNOPSIS
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UNITING PRIMARY CARE AND ONCOLOGY (UPCON): Saturday, October 27th, 15:35 - 16:35
MAKING LINKS FOR BETTER PATIENT CARE
With the pressures of fee for service practice, the shortage of primary care practitioners and the increasing burden of chronic illness
in our aging population, the provision of care for the complex and less frequent diagnosis of cancer provides Family Physicians (FPs)
and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) with a challenge. Patients benefi t from having FP/NPs with disease-specifi c knowledge; information
to help them navigate the cancer care system; and excellent communication with cancer specialists in all disciplines. Despite the
challenges that our partners in primary care face daily in practice, it is clear: primary care clinicians are instrumental in improving
cancer-related health outcomes from prevention to survivorship to end of life care.
NOPS — Oncology Pharmacy in Your Community, October 26-28, 2007
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