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QUALITY OF LIFE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE RESEARCH:
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS 2005 – 2006

ABSTRACTS

Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K., Guill, A.B., Willard, V., Gururanga, S. Quality of life in pediatric brain tumor survivors. Poster presentation at the Second quadrennial meeting of the World Federation of NeuroOncology, United Kingdom. 2005.

Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K., Willard, V., Guill, A.B. Association between the Parent Experience of Childhood Illness (PECI) Scale and Clinician Ratings of Functioning among Parents of Children with Cancer Poster accepted for the American Psychosocial Oncology Society – 3rd Annual Conference.

Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K, Hutchinson, K., & Willard, V. Psychosocial Functioning of Parents of Children Diagnosed with Cancer as a Function of Diagnosis and Treatment Status
Accepted for poster presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K., Williard, V.W., Guill, A.B. Association between parent experience of childhood illness (PECI) scale and clinician ratings of functioning among parent of children with cancer. Psycho-Oncology. February, 2006.

Buchanan, G.M., Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K., Willard, V., Anthony, K., & Hood M. Social and Nonverbal Functioning in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors versus Children with
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. Accepted for poster presentation at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology

Hardy, K.K., Bonner, M.J., Hutchinson, K., & Willard, V.. Psychosocial Functioning of Fathers of Pediatric Oncology Patients. Accepted for poster presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association

Hardy, K.K., Bonner, M.J., Hutchinson, K., & Rosoff, P. Psychosocial Functioning in Parents of Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer. Accepted for poster presentation at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology

Keir, S.T., Guill, A.B., Carter, K.E., Friedman, H.S. Stress and intervention preferences of patients with brain tumors. Psycho-Oncology. February, 2006.

Keir, S.T., Guill, A.B., Carter, K.E., Friedman, H.S. Stress and intervention preferences of caregivers of patients with brain tumors. Psycho-Oncology. February, 2006.

Keir, S.T., Guill, A.B., Carter, K.E., Boole, L.C., Gonzales, L., Friedman, H.S. Differential Levels of Stress in Caregivers of Patients with Brain Tumors – Observations from a Pilot study. Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Annual Meeting. April, 2006.

Jones, L.W. Guill, B., Keir, S.T., Carter, K., Friedman, H.S., Bigner, D.D. Patterns of Exercise Across the Cancer Trajectory in Primary Brain Tumor Patients. Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Annual Meeting. April, 2006.

Jones, L.W. Guill, B., Keir, S.T., Carter, K., Friedman, H.S., Bigner, D.D. Exercise Preferences of Primary Brain Tumor Patients. International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2006.

Willard, V., Hardy, K.K., Bonner, M.J. Gender Differences in Perception of Facial Expressions in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Accepted for poster presentation at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology.

SUBMITTED

Jones, L.W., Guill, B., Keir, S.T., Carter, K., Friedman, H.S., Bigner, D.D., Reardon, M.D. Exercise and preferences among a population-based cohort of patients diagnosed with primary brain cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer.

Jones, L.W., Guill, B., Keir, S.T., Carter, K., Friedman, H.S., Bigner, D.D., Reardon, M.D. Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the determinants of exercise in patients diagnosed with primary brain cancer. Psycho-Oncology.

Keir, S.T., Guill, A.B., Carter, K.E., Friedman, H.S. Stress and intervention preferences of patients with brain tumors. Supportive Care in Cancer.

Keir, S.T., Guill, A.B., Carter, K.E., Friedman, H.S. Stress and intervention preferences of caregivers of patients with brain tumors. Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Keir, S.T., Guill, A.B., Carter, K.E., Boole, L.C., Gonzales, L., Friedman, H.S. Differential Levels of Stress in Caregivers of Brain Cancer Patients – Observations from a Pilot Study. Neuro-Oncology.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K., Guill, A.B., McLaughlin, C., Schweitzer, H., Carter, K. Development and validation of the Parent Experience of Illness (PECI) Questionnaire. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. In Press

Jones, L.W., Guill, B., Keir, S.T., Carter, K., Friedman, H.S., Bigner, D.D., Reardon M.D. Patterns of exercise across the cancer trajectory in brain tumor patients: a population-based survey. Cancer, In Press

Reddick, W.E., Shan, Z.Y., Glass, J.O., Helton, S., Xiong, X., Wu, S., Bonner, M.J., Howard,
S.C., Christensen, R., Khan, R., Mulhern, R.K. Long term survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia have smaller white matter volumes associated with increased deficits in attention and learning. Cancer . In Press

Helton, S., Corwyn, R.F., Bonner, M.J., Brown, R.T., Mulhern, R.K. (2006) Factor
analysis and teacher rating scales in childhood cancer survivors. Journal of Pediatric Psychology,31,200-208.

Rosoff, P.M., Werner, C., Clipp, E. Guill, A.B., Bonner, M.J., Demark-Wahnefried, W. (2005) Response rates to a mailed survey targeting childhood cancer survivors: A comparison of conditional versus unconditional incentives. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention,141330-1332.

Demark-Wahnefried W, Werner C, Clipp EC, Guill AB, Bonner M, Jones LW, Rosoff PM. Survivors of childhood cancers and their guardians. Cancer, 2005;14:2171-2180.

Hahn CA, Fish LJ, (Raynor) Dunn RH, Halperin EC. Prospective trial of a video educational tool for radiation oncology patients. American Journal of Clinical Oncology 28:609-612, 2005.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Bonner, M.J., Guill, A.B., Brown, M. Palliative care. N.J. Salkind, (Ed), Encyclopedia of Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. In Press

Guill, A.B. and Raynor, R.H. Support Services. Accepted for publication in CA Meyers (Ed), Cognition and Cancer. Cambridge University Press. In Press

AWARDS

Mary Lou Affronti – Duke University Medical Center’s Master Program in Clinical Research Training, September 2005.

Mary Lou Affronti – Recipient of the Evelyn Morgan Award for Excellence of Oncology Nursing Practice, Friends of Nursing Award, November 2005.

Bart Brigidi - American Psychological Association’s Advanced Training Institute on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, April 2006.

Deborah “Hutch” Allen – Acceptance into nursing doctoral program at both Duke University and the University of North Carolina. 2006.

INVITED TALKS

Melanie Bonner – Caring for Caregivers of Pediatric Cancer Survivors, Health Services Panel: Institute on Care at the End of Life Researchers Symposium, September 13, 2005.

Melanie Bonner – Neurocognitive and Psychosocial Sequela of Pediatric Brain Tumors, Dividion of Pediatric Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, May 13, 2005.

Bebe Guill - Is This Hospital-Based Bereavement Program Effective? Lessons from 10 Years Past- Visions for the Future, Children’s Hospice International 17th World Congress, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1, 2005.

Bebe Guill - Initiating and Sustaining Collaborative Relationships: Providing Leadership in Pediatric Palliative Care, Texas Children’s Hospital Third Biennial Symposium, Houston, Texas, November 9 – 11, 2005.

Lee Jones - Exercise Oncology Research at Duke, Citizens Advisory Council, Washington Duke Hotel, NC, USA, November 4, 2005.

Lee Jones - Exercise Therapy for Patients with Cancer, Duke Radiation Oncology Retreat, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA, May 4, 2005.

Lee Jones - Exercise Therapy for Cancer Patients, Partners in Allied Research, North Carolina Central University, NC, USA, February 17, 2006.

Last Updated: March 24, 2006