The GUIDE Communication Framework: shared decision-making tool

Fransen McGinley is a certified physicians assistant in the Gastrointestinal Cancers Clinic at the Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma City. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, she earned her master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Physician Associate Program. Fransen has more than 12 years of experience as an oncology PA at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She is an active member of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, as well as of the Oklahoma Academy of Physician Assistants.

Nina Grenon is a nurse practitioner caring for patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers for the past 22 years, 14 at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the previous 8 years at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. She is adjunct faculty at Simmons College, School of Nursing and Health Sciences and serves as a clinical preceptor for nurse practitioner students at Yale University, Simmons College and MGH Institute of Health Professions. She serves on the North America Neuroendocrine Association Tumor Society, regional education committee. Nina Grenon is a frequent national and regional lecturer in colon and pancreatic cancer, published a number of articles in the nursing implication in the management of side effects in patients treated for colon cancer. She is currently on the Oncology Nursing Society Congress Planning Team for 2020. Her research and quality improvement interest include patient and care taker education, specific intervention delivered by front line nurses and the early integrating of palliative care in patients with advanced gastrointestinal malignancies specifically pancreatic cancer.

Sven De Keersmaecker works as a Study Coordinator at the Antwerp University Hospital since 2015, caring for study patients and outpatients. Sven is a graduate nurse since 1997 and worked initially in Intensive Care before moving to work in Oncology in Antwerp in 2000. Over the years, he acted as a nurse navigator in digestive oncology and was involved in the development of coaching programs for patient and health informatics tools to help them with compliance and monitoring of side effects.