Education Task Force Committee

Goals:

• • To resolve creatively and rapidly obstacles to learning and teaching HRA
  • To have an overarching Education Committee including all the previous education-related committees. This will split into groups managing one of the tasks below
  • There will be a limited time for tasks to be addressed. Task Force groups will report back to the education committee
  • Task Force Groups:
• • Curriculum Development for HRA courses and short-term course expansion plan
  • Teaching and Learning effectiveDARE: challenge of an unseeable task
  • Practical Foundations of becoming an independent HRA practitioner
  • Future directions 
  • Educational Grant Group

• Chairs            

  Tamzin Cuming, MBBS FRCS Med  Consultant Colorectal Surgeon  Homerton University Hospital      London, United Kingdom

  Michelle Khan, MD, MPH, FACOG Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology Stanford UniversityStanford, California

  European Task Force Committee
  

  • Goals:

  • • Provide regionally appropriate support as part of IANS, to practitioners and trainees undertaking HRA in Europe and related researchers
    • Discuss and map prospectively current HRA availability across Europe: work towards closing the gaps in provision and standards
    • Encourage IANS membership uptake amongst HRA practitioners and associated researchers in Europe
    • Encourage Europe-wide collaborations for research
    • Feed back to the IANS Board, ways in which IANS can be more relevant and central to European members
    • Coordinate IANS European HRA courses traveling around Europe

  Chairs

  Julie Bowring, MD Homerton University Hospital London, United Kingdom

  Esther Kuyvenhoven, NP Amsterdam university medical centre AMC, Dermatology Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Spanish-Portuguese Task Force Committee
  

  Goals:

  • Map Spanish-Portuguese speaking countries reality related to anal cancer screening
  • Promote a research network of Spanish-Portuguese speaking countries
  • Promote a Spanish-Portuguese course
  • Collaboration in specific Spanish-Portuguese webinars promoted by IANS

  Chairs
  

  Luciana La Rosa, MD Colorectal Surgeon CEMIC and Private Center for Surgery and Coloproctology  Buenos Aires, Argentina

  WebRounds Planning Committee
  

  Goals:

• • WebRounds – develop topics, dates, expand regional options for times, Spanish-speaking (bi-annual), determine frequency
  • Explore application for CMEs
  • Create syllabus for the year
  • Determine number per region

  Chairs

Richard Turner, MBBS, BMedSc, FRACS, PhD Professor of Surgery University of Tasmania Hobart. Tasmania. Australia

Theresa Schwartz, NP  Rochester Colon and Rectal Surgeons  Rochester, New York

                                  

  Scientific Meeting Planning Committee

  Goals:

  Chairs

Humberto M. Guiot, MD, FACP, FIDSA  Associate Professor University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine San Juan, Puerto Rico

Rebecca Nowak, PhD  Assistant Professor, Epidemiology University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland

Maribel Tirado Gomez, MD Associate Professor  University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center

                                                         

  Task Force on Guidelines Committee

  Goals: 

  Chairs

Elizabeth Stier, MD Associate Professor Boston University School of Medicine  Obstetrics and Gynecology Boston, Massachusetts

Naomi Jay, RN, NP, PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California

                                                   

  Outreach and Communication Committee

    Goals:

  Chair

Mary-Jo Murphy, MS, RN, CDE
Anal Cancer Survivor, Patient Advocate,
Speaker, Writer, Health Educator
Ventura, California

  Quarterly Newsletter

    Goals:

 Editors

Mary-Jo Murphy, MS, RN, CDE Anal Cancer Survivor, Patient Advocate, Speaker, Writer, Health Educator Ventura, California

Alan Nyitray, MD Associate Professor of Epidemiology Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin