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Session Type: Workshop

W04--How to Survive & Thrive in a Small CF Center | Room: 427-429

Thursday, October 23, 2025
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Location:427-429

Recorded Session

CF centers with less than 100 patients face unique challenges, including financial, staffing, research, and quality improvement. This session will highlight the work of small CF centers that have overcome challenges and emerged as innovators.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the unique challenges encountered by small CF centers with less than 100 patients
  • Propose strategies for overcoming challenges faced by small CF centers with less than 100 patients
  • Apply LEAPP principles to training new cystic fibrosis center staff

Presentations:

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W04.1- Addition of outpatient clinical pharmacy services can reduce nursing time spent on CF medication access challenges

    Speaker: Laney Vernon, BSN, RN, AE-C – UW Health Kids

    Speaker: Beth Northey, RN, BSN, CPN, AE-C – UW Health Kids

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W04.2- Train-the-Trainer success in low-resource areas: Quality improvement training for establishing a CF center in Formosa, Argentina

    Speaker: Maria Noelia Bergas, MD – Hospital Lagomaggiore

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W04.3- Empowering the CF team: Initiating and accelerating quality improvement in a pediatric center

    Speaker: Rebekah J. Nevel, MD, MSCI – University of Missouri

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W04.4- LEAP Principals

    Speaker: Cynthia J. Brady, DNP – University of Minnesota

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W04.5- Small center successes

    Speaker: Wendi Tague, RN, BSN – Children's Hospital of Michigan

    Speaker: Denise Gilham, PNP – Parkview Regional Medical Center