Established in 1987, the NCRA Awards Program highlights excellent contributions to the most cancers registry career and the affiliation.
ALEXANDRIA, VA, UNITED STATES, June 21, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Nationwide Most cancers Registrars Affiliation (NCRA) acknowledged three distinctive members at its Annual Educational Conference in San Diego, CA through the Recognition & Celebration Reception on Might 9, 2023. Janet Reynolds, BA, CTR acquired the Distinguished Member Award; Sara Biese, RHIT, CTR, was honored with the Educational Achievement Award; and Andrea Sipin-Baliwas, MS, CTR was offered with the Volunteer Excellence Award. Established in 1987, the NCRA Awards Program highlights excellent contributions to the most cancers registry career and the affiliation.
Janet Reynolds, BA, CTR — Distinguished Member Award
The recipient of the 2023 NCRA Distinguished Member Award is Janet Reynolds, BA, CTR. The Distinguished Member Award is given to a member who has made important contributions to our career via their actions as an NCRA volunteer, chief, speaker and educator, in addition to their skilled and state-level actions.
Reynolds has been lively in NCRA for a few years. Presently she is in the primary yr of a two-year appointment as Nominating Committee Chair. She can be at the moment; the Liaison to Most cancers PathCHART, a member of the Program Committee and the Coverage and Process Committee, a member of the AJCC decrease GI knowledgeable panel and a member of the NCRA-UCSF Workload Examine Advisory Group. Up to now this member has been President of NCRA, Recruitment & Retention Director, Treasurer Junior & Treasurer Senior (twice), Program Committee Chair, CTR Identify Change Taskforce, Liaison to Excessive Stage Strategic Group, Nominating Committee member, and GPEC member and Chair. She was additionally an affiliate editor of the Knowledge Assortment and Abstraction chapters of Most cancers Registry Administration Rules and Follow for Hospitals and Central Registries, 4th Version.
Reynolds has additionally been fairly lively in her state group, the Texas Tumor Registrars Affiliation. Her previous positions embody: Board of Trustees member; Program Committee member; 2nd VP/Publications; Parliamentarian and Program Committee co-chair; Program Committee Chair; Liaison to Texas Medical Affiliation and guide to Committee on Most cancers; Fast Previous President, Board of Trustees Chair; President; President-elect/ Membership Chair; Secretary/ Nominating Chair; 1st VP/ Schooling Chair; Treasurer; and Program Committee Chair.
Sara Biese, RHIT, CTR— Educational Achievement Award
The Educational Achievement Award honors an NCRA member for important contributions to most cancers registry schooling. Sara Biese, RHIT, CTR has devoted her total profession to the Most cancers Registry career and has been a CTR for over 20 years. She is at the moment the Director of the Most cancers Info Administration Program at Southwest Wisconsin Technical Faculty with over 20 years of intensive data and enthusiasm for all NCRA initiatives and most cancers registry actions.
With the help of the Wisconsin Most cancers Reporting System (WCRS) Job Drive, Biese was instrumental with the implementation of the Most cancers Info Administration Program being provided at SWTC in 2014. She developed the CIM course curriculum for this system. This curriculum resulted in 76 graduates for the years 2016 – 2021. A major variety of these eligible have achieved taking the NCRA Licensed Tumor Registrars examination, with an total passing fee of 86%.
She has additionally served as the trainer for the Fundamentals of Abstracting Workshop since 2013 in conjunction with NCRA Annual Conference. This hands-on workshop supplies interactive workouts utilizing affected person circumstances to assist new registrars give attention to high quality abstracting. She has additionally been lively on NCRA’s Schooling Basis Board since 2012, serving as Chair since 2015.
Andrea Sipin-Baliwas, MS, CTR — Volunteer Excellence Award
Andrea Sipin-Baliwas, MS, CTR is the recipient of the 2023 NCRA Volunteer Excellence Award. She serves in a number of volunteer roles for NCRA, together with the Council on Certification, the JRM Editorial Board, the CTR Rename Job Drive Authorized Subgroup. She additionally serves as NAACCR’s Skilled Improvement Steering Committee Co-Chair and Mentorship Workgroup Co-Chair and because the California Most cancers Registrars Affiliation Schooling Co-Chair.
Sipin-Baliwas developed the primary totally digital practicum program with the Los Angeles Most cancers Surveillance Program in 2020 and administers this system yearly. She has graduated fifteen college students thus far, three employed as full-time CTRs by the California Most cancers Registry. Eight handed their CTR exams, seven are sitting for the examination this yr.
Sipin-Baliwas has additionally instituted a partnership with a local people hospital to co-train CIM college students making ready for his or her CTR examination. She is a part of the California Most cancers Registry Schooling Coaching Coordinators Group, hosts an annual academic symposium for LA County CTRs and the bigger CA/US CTR neighborhood, and fosters studying via different persevering with schooling alternatives for brand spanking new and seasoned CSP/LA County CTRs.
In the course of the awards ceremony, NCRA additionally acknowledged the winners of the Journal of Registry Administration’s 2022 Finest Paper awards competitors. The Case of the Lacking 2020 Cancers: Utilizing Claims Knowledge to Examine a Deficit in Incident Most cancers Case Studies to the New York State Most cancers Registry in 2020 claimed high prize because the Finest Paper Award winner. It was authored by Xiuling Zhang, PhD; Margaret Gates Kuliszewski, ScD; Amy R. Kahn, MS; and Maria J. Schymura, PhD. An Honorable Point out award was offered to Quinn Ostrom, PhD, MPH; Carol Kruchko, BA; Corey Neff, MPH; Albert Firth, BA; and Recinda Sherman, MPH, PhD, CTR for his or her article, The Central Mind Tumor Registry of the US Histopathological Grouping Scheme Offers Clinically Related Mind and Different Central Nervous System Classes for Most cancers Registry Knowledge.
To study extra about NCRA’s awards program, go to www.ncra-usa.org/awards.
Concerning the Nationwide Most cancers Registrars Affiliation (NCRA)
NCRA is a non-profit group that represents over 6,500 most cancers registry professionals and Licensed Tumor Registrars. The mission of NCRA is to empower and advance registry professionals via improvements in schooling, advocacy, credentialing, and strategic partnerships. Most cancers registrars are knowledge info specialists that seize an entire historical past, prognosis, remedy, and well being standing for each most cancers affected person in the U.S. The information present important info to researchers, healthcare suppliers, and public well being officers to higher monitor and advance most cancers therapies, conduct analysis, and enhance most cancers prevention and screening packages. For extra details about NCRA, go to www.ncra-usa.org and www.CancerRegistryEducation.org.
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