OFD 2022

Dr. Debenham completed his medical degree and residency at the University of Alberta, followed by a fellowship in brachytherapy and intraoperative radiotherapy at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York.  He was program director of the radiation oncology residency program from 2014-2021, and currently serves as an assistant dean in the MD program.  He specializes in the treatment of head and neck malignancies.

Kathy LeBreux is a Registered Pharmacy Technician (RPhT) working at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre.  She is part of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Research Team that works together to provide Investigational Medication to their patients.  Before her work in research, Kathy was the Team Leader of the Inpatient Oncology Satellite Pharmacy and prior to that the Pharmacy Distribution Supervisor, both at the Ottawa Hospital.  Earlier in her career, she gained experience working as a Pharmacy Technician at the National Defense Medical Centre and the Royal Ottawa Hospital.

Kathy will provide information about her day-to-day work with the Clinical Trials Team at the Cancer Centre.  She hopes that conference attendees will be interested in the topic of her talk and that it sparks many questions following her presentation.   
 

Tom is currently a Clinical Lecturer and a researcher at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy in Kitchener, Ontario, where he created, coordinates, and teaches the oncology portion of the curriculum in the Doctor of Pharmacy program and conducts practice based research.

She is a medical oncologist at the Trillium Health Partners Credit Valley Hospital and has been in clinical practice for 30 years.
She did her Internal medicine and medical Oncology training at the University of Toronto.
She treats Breast cancer and melanoma and is the Skin Site lead at the THP.
She also teaches within the University of Toronto Medical Oncology Training Programme working with residents and junior trainees,
She is involved in clinical research in breast cancer and melanoma and sits on the Cancer Care Ontario melanoma Guidelines committee, the Canadian Clinical Trials Group metastatic Melanoma and IND working group as well as the Canadian Melanoma Research Network.
 

Frances graduated from the University of Alberta Faculty of Pharmacy in 1993.  She completed a Year 1 pharmacy residency at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in 1994.
Frances is a Pharmacy Clinical Practice Leader who has worked at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Alberta since 2002.  Her clinical practice is in ambulatory neuro oncology.  She is also the residency coordinator for the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Cancer Care pharmacy residency program. 
In the area of diversity and inclusion, Frances has been a member of a Clinical Practice Leader anti-racism committee since 2020. She has facilitated diversity and inclusion discussions provincially with the AHS pharmacy residents for 2 years.
 

Megan Munden received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Memorial University School of Pharmacy in 2016, and after spending 4 short months as a relief community pharmacist she started her career as a hospital pharmacist, ultimately landing as an oncology pharmacist in 2018. Since 2018 she has been working in the Acute Care Adult Hematology/Oncology setting, along with the NL Cellular Therapy and Transplant Program. Megan has been a part of the care team for both benign and malignant hematology, with a special interest in acute malignant disease management and cellular therapy. While working in acute care Megan has been involved in treating many types of malignant hematologic disorders, including a multitude of lymphomas, relapsed and resistant lymphomas, transformed lymphomas as well as treatment related

Graduated Top of my class with a Pharmacy Technician Diploma from Compu-College in 2007. I later completed the Registered Pharmacy Technician (RPT) bridging program through Humber College and Selkirk College. I became licensed as a Registered Pharmacy Technician in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2017. I have worked for a short period of time with Central health in Grandfalls-Winsor NL, then since 2008 with Eastern Health in St. John’s NL. For the past 10 years my specialty area has been Sterile Hazardous Admixtures or Chemotherapy Preparation. I have been involved heavily in LEAN initiatives over the years, NAPRA policy implementation, and working on the design and implementation of a new Pharmacy Chemotherapy Suite at the Dr. H Bliss Murphy Center in St. John’s, NL. I have also recently begun a role of a Drug Access Navigator at the Dr. H Bliss Murphy Cancer Center, and work with Medical Oncology and Radiation Oncology. 

Chris Tse is an oncology pharmacist working at Princess Margaret Hospital in the autologous stem cell transplant unit. Chris completed his hospital residency specializing in oncology in 2022, where he completed rotations in malignant hematology, allogeneic stem cell transplant, and solid tumours. Chris hosts two pharmacy-related podcasts, the CAPhO Connections Podcast and Off the Script Podcast.

Melissa received her PharmD from University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in 2011 and went on to complete an Ambulatory Pharmacy Practice Residency at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in 2012. Shortly after, she joined the ambulatory pharmacy team at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre where she has been practicing for the past 7 years and more recently is splitting her time in the malignant hematology day unit . She has participated in a variety of educational roles and quality improvement projects. She was part of the pilot project exploring the role of a pharmacist in an interdisciplinary outpatient malignant hematology clinic and most recently completing a secondment with Investigational Pharmacy Services.

Tina is the clinical pharmacist in the hematology chemotherapy unit at The Ottawa Hospital. Here she oversees patients with lymphomas, multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia who are receiving care on an outpatient basis. Tina joined the hematology team at The Ottawa Hospital in 1999. Tina has written educational materials and has given presentations on topics in hematology and patient care. She enjoys being a peer reviewer for CCCEP, is Past President of CAPhO and serves on the Oncology Fundamental Day (OFD) education committee. Tina was honoured to chair the 2018 CAPhO conference in Ottawa. Tina received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and completed an accredited residency in hospital pharmacy in Ottawa.

Raymond Vles is Board Chair of CLL Canada, a volunteer organization of patients and caregivers, as well as facilitator of the Montreal CLL Support Group. 
As Boar Chair, Raymond Vles acts as spokesperson for CLL Canada. He has made presentations on the CLL patient experience to a number of organizations, including the Oncology Nurses of Ontario, the Canadian CLL Research meeting, the CLL Horizons conference of the CLL Advocates Network and to a number of pharmaceutical companies. 
He retired in May 2020 after 17 years working for the City of Montreal in various capacities, including Information System Pilot, Change management Consultant and Internal Organizational Development Consultant. 
Prior to working for the City, he spent 15 years as an independent consultant and group facilitator, assisting clients in the public and private sector in the management of environmental and other public policy issues. He facilitated numerous stakeholder consultations, primarily but not exclusively on environmental issues.  He also advised clients on stakeholder relations and environmental policy.  
Other professional experiences include 5 years as executive director of an environmental NGO, a year as a Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa and 2 years working in a manufacturing company. 
Raymond Vles holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Development as well as a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Environmental Studies. He lives in Montreal and is fluent in spoken and written English and French. 
In addition to his involvement on the CLL Canada board of directors, Raymond Vles is a board member, Jazzworks Canada.  He was previously a member and President  of the board of directors of CAMMAC (Musicien amateurs du Canada Canadian Amateur Musicians).
While employed at the City of Montreal, he was volunteer Campaign Director for Centraide (United Way) in his workplace.  Previous to that he was a volunteer member of an allocation committee and of the Social Development Investment Committee, Centraide (United Way). 
Raymond has two adult children and lives with his spouse in Montreal, Canada.