Interview opportunity, NYC, Austin, Baltimore, Philadelphia!!

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From: Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) Support Group

[mailto:GISTSUPPORT@...] On Behalf Of Marina Symcox

Sent: April 10, 2008 12:42 PM

Subject: [GIST-SUPPORT] Interview opportunity, NYC, Austin, Baltimore,

Philadelphia!!

Hello listmates,

Please feel free to forward this post to other patients or listservs...

PRG Solutions is a medical communications company producing an educational

DVD for Novartis Oncology. The name of the project is " Healing

Conversations. " The DVDs are targeted to doctors and nurses, to help them

with communication strategies with patients. Last year, this company made a

similar DVD program for Breast Cancer.

(This is not a project of any patient suport group, but rather between PRG

Solutions and Novartis.)

They are seeking real stories from patients about doctor-patient

communications that are noteworthy, those that went wrong or those that went

well...those that have an important lesson for the DVD project.

If you are interested in an on camera interview, please contact

Francis from PRG Solutions at the email or phone number below. The dates

and cities are listed below.

Cheers,

Marina

" " The interviews have been phenomenal, and the participants have some

incredible stories to tell, many of them very, very positive as far as the

support they receive from their providers and support network. These

interviews, once embedded in the Healing Conversations program materials,

will be invaluable to the doctors and nurses that participate in the

program.

As we continue conducting interviews with the healthcare providers, our team

has identified a few additional dates and locations during which they'd like

to collect more of these personal accounts. If you could identify any of

your support group members that would be interested in participating, it

would be greatly appreciated. " "

CITY POINT OF REFERENCE DATE AND TIMES

Austin, TX Downtown

04/15/08, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

New York City Sloan-Kettering 04/22/08,

3:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Philadelphia, PA Fox Chase Cancer Center 04/23/08, 6:00 -

9:00 p.m.

Baltimore, MD s Hopkins University 04/24/08, 6:00 -

9:00 p.m.

04/25/08, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Thank you!

Francis

PRG Solutions

Phone: 508-349-6161

Email: nfrancis@...