Paula Anastasia, MN, RN, AOCN - Activity Chair
GYN Oncology 
Advanced Practice Nurse 
UCLA Health
Los Angeles, California

Paula Anastasia, RN, MN, AOCN has been a GYN-Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist for 29 years, and an oncology nurse for 39 years. She is currently working at UCLA Health in Los Angeles, CA. Her patient relationship begins with diagnosis, followed by education, genetic screening/assessment, clinical research trials, treatment, surveillance, recurrence, and palliative and end of life care.

Ms. Anastasia has numerous publications in peer reviewed nursing journals and book chapters, and is a national public speaker on ovarian cancer, chemotherapy symptom management, and survivorship issues. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology.

Ms. Anastasia received her MN from the University of California, Los Angeles and her BSN from Rush University, in Chicago. Her passion is educating both nurses and patients with cancer on how to improve life while living with a cancer diagnosis.

Jennifer Filipi, MSN, NP
Center for Gynecologic Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Jenny Filipi is a Nurse Practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology. She received her BS in Exercise Physiology from Ohio State University. After moving to Boston, she attended nursing school and ultimately received her MS in Nursing from Regis College in Massachusetts. She is a member of the Boston ONS chapter, where she has served as Director at Large in the past.

Shannon N. Westin, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, Division of Surgery
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Dr. Westin received her doctorate of Medicine from the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. During her fellowship, she received an MPH with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of Texas, School of Public Health. In addition to her training in Gynecologic Oncology, she also completed a short fellowship in Investigational Cancer Therapeutics. She joined the faculty at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2010. She has been honored as a K12 scholar, an Andrew Sabin Family Fellow, and a Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) Foundation Scholar Investigator.

Dr. Westin focuses on developmental therapeutics and the use of biomarkers to predict response and recurrence in gynecologic malignancies. She currently serves as the Director of Early Drug Development and Phase I Trials in her department and is a Co-Director of the Ovarian Cancer Moonshot. Dr. Westin is a member of the NRG Oncology – GOG Developmental Therapeutics, Phase I, and Early Phase Protocol Oversight committees. She is the co-PI for five major projects in her institution’s SPORE in Uterine Cancer and SPORE in Ovarian Cancer. In addition, she is currently the PI or co-PI for greater than 30 novel treatment trials in gynecologic malignancies.

Dr. Westin has authored or co-authored greater than 150 scientific publications, book chapters and invited articles. She has been invited to lecture as an expert on clinical trials, genomic testing and targeted therapy in gynecologic malignancies in national and international venues. She was selected for the competitive American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Leadership Development program and serves on five ASCO committees including the Communications Committee and Gynecologic Cancer Guidelines Group. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) and the GOG Foundation. In addition to serving on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Uterine Task Force and Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee (GCSC), she serves as a co-chair of the GCSC Ovarian Cancer Task Force and the NCI Ovarian Cancer Clinical Trials Planning Meeting. As such, she is guiding development of future NCI trials designed to push the field forward and expand the role of precision medicine in ovarian cancer.

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Planner/Faculty:
Paula Anastasia, MN, RN, AOCN–has disclosed that she is on the speakers bureau for Genentech and Seagen. She is also on the Merck Advisory Board.

Faculty:
Jennifer Filipi, MSN, NP–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.
Shannon N. Westin, MD, MPH–has disclosed that she receives a salary/employment from AstraZeneca, OncXerna Therapeutics Inc, and Roche/Genentech. She has ownership interest/stock or stock options in Bayer, Eisai, and Zentalis. She receives grants from Agenus, EQRx, ImmunoGen, and Merck. She receives research support from Clovis Oncology, Lilly, and Pfizer. She is on the speakers bureau for Cotinga Pharmaceuticals. She is an advisor or consultant for GlaxoSmithKline. She owns stock/shareholder (self managed) in Mereo and receives other financial or material support from Novartis.

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Kristi Acker DNP, PhD, CRNP, FAANP–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.

CEC Staff:
Susan H. Gitzinger, PharmD, MPA–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.
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Jessica Hall–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.

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