The G2NA quarterly webinar series began in 2018. The webinars run for approximately 90 minutes and incorporate news and updates from G2NA members, as well as a 30-40 minute presentation from leaders from across the globe. Links to the G2NA webinars are available below and there is no charge to view them.
Participation in the live webinars is available to everyone who has signed up to the G2NA listserv (see Contact page for details). Participation is free. You can access the events directly from your web browser; through the Webex desktop or mobile (Apple, Android phone, tablet or watch) app; or using your phone (audio only). WebEx is free to download but do allow time for this ahead of any webinar you wish to attend. Email reminders with the WebEx link are sent to G2NA listserv members ahead of each webinar.
Time: 0700 Eastern Time / 12 noon UK
Dates for 2024 - January 10th, April 10th, July 10th & October 9th
As we have people joining from around the globe we know that due to time-zones this won't be a ideal for everyone but if you can't make it to the live event please use the links below to play on-demand.
G2NA 2023 Webinar series
Now in its 6th year, the G2NA webinar series will continue to bring you speakers from around the world, presenting on a range of topics of interest to this community.
January 11th Erika Maria Monteiro Santos, RN, MSc, PhD, Head Nurse at the Genomic Medicine Service, Hospital Beneficiencia Portuguesa, spoke about the ongoing work taking place around the Integration of Genomics in Nursing Practice in Brazil
Due to technical difficulties with the virtual meeting platform, there is no recording of this presentation. Dr. Santos has made her slides available.
View a PDF of the slides here
April 12th Despite initial sound issues, there was a great deal of interest in the presentation from Maria C. Katapodi, PhD, RN, FAAN (University of Basel, Switzerland) on the international collaborative project ACCESS: A practice-guiding framework for overcoming disparities in genomic healthcare
Unfortunately additional technical difficulties has resulted, once again, in no recording of this presentation. Prof. Katapodi has made her slides available.
View a PDF of the slides here
July 12th Laurie Connor PhD(c), DNP, FNP-BC, AGN-BC, AOCNP, FAANP, FAAN, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute USA and
President, International Society of Nurses in Genetics will be presenting on the Translation and Integration of Genomics Is Essential to Doctoral NuRsing "TIGER" inititiatve, a five-year grant supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Presnentation title: TIGER: Pedagogy for Infusing Genomics into Nursing
View a PDF of the slides here. A different meeting platform was used for this event. We hope to be able to share a recording of the presentation shortly.
NEXT WEBINAR:
October 11th Gigi Lim, PhD Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland New Zealand: Pharmacogenomic Considerations in Prescribing Antimicrobials
G2NA 2022 Webinar series
During the 2022 series we will be showcasing activities taking place in Turkey and Israel as well as an initiative focused on credetialling for nurse educators. We hope you can Join live but if not catch-up in your own time by accessing the links that will be added below.
January 12th İlknur YEŞİLÇINAR, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor at Izmir Katip Çelebi University received a very warm welcome for her presentation on the Genetic and Genomic Competency of Turkish Nurses
April 13th Deborah O. Himes, Ph.D., APRN-BC, Adult NP Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, College of Nursing, Provo, Utah, United States & CGNE Steering Committee Chair,International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) gave a very well received presentation on the Development of Competencies and a Portfolio-based Credential for Genomic Nurse Educators (CGNE). G2NA will hopefully provide updates on this work as it progresses as we are sure credentialling will be of interest to some of the nurse educators in pur community.
Play recording: G2NA Webinar-Development of Competencies and a Portfolio-based Credential for Genomic Nurse Educators (CGNE)-20220413 1109-1
July 6th Efrat Dagan RN, PhD, LGC University of Haifa, & Sivia Barnoy RN, PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Factors associated with attitudes and competencies of genomic professional skills among Israeli nurses and nursing students. Sivia and Efrat have undertaken a great deal of work over many years to drive the 'genomics within nursing' agenda froward. This has included national policy work as well evaluating educaitonal outcomes tounderstand if cahanges in the curriculum are making a difference in practice.
October 12th Erin Dickman, MS, RN, OCN Oncology Clinical Specialist Genomics Initiative Clinical Lead Oncology Nursing Society Pittsburgh, PA, US. spoke about Closing the Genomic Practice Gap of Oncology Nurses: A Nursing Professional Organization’s Approach.
Play recording View a PDF of the slides here
G2NA 2021 Webinar series
For the 2021 series we will be showcasing activities taking place in three different countries - Finland, Australia and Canada. There isn't a webinar in July. Instead, we hope you will join us at Nursing, Genomics and Healthcare virtual conference between 07-09 July for an even broader flavour of work in genomics and nursing internationally.
January 13th
Our webinar series for 2021 started with a presentation from Arja Halkoaho, PhD Principal Lecturer, Adjunct Professor, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland on Competence Building in Genomics: Curriculum Development Through Research to Practice. Arja spoke about the work taking place at Tampere University and in particular the PROFITU initiative (funded by Finland's Ministry of Education and Culture) to develop competence in staff in relation to genetics and healthcare and build a roadmap for responsible use of patient data.
Click below to play the recording. This will take you to a new window. Click on the play icon to start. The recording is approximately 55 minutes.
April 14th
Attendance at our webinars continues to grow and this event saw the largest attendance to date. The presentation from Amy Nisselle, PhD and Clara Gaff, FHGSA, PhD on Supporting Best Practice in Genomics Education and Evaluation was very well received with lots of questions for the speakers at the end. Amy covered a number of projects within a portfolio of work that have been delivered over the last 5 years. Amy's role and affilliations are: Specialist Project Officer, Australian Genomics Health Alliance; Workforce Development Lead, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance;Genomics in Society, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne. Clara is Executive Director, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance; Group Leader, Genomics in Society, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne.
Click below to play the recording. This will take you to a new window. Click on the play icon to start. The recording is approximately 1 hour 20 minutes.
October 13th
Our final webinar of the year was given by Jacqueline Limoges, RN, PhD, Faculty - Health, Wellness and Sciences, Georgian College and Lindsay Carlsson, RN & PhD Candidate, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Phase 1 Drug Development Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Their joint presentation focused on "Canadian Nursing and Genomics: An Engagement Initiative"
Due to technical difficulties a recording of the whole webinar is unavailable. Lindsay Carlsson has kindly recorded her presentation which can be viewed at Vimeo (link below)
View Recording @ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/700449116
G2NA 2020 Webinar series
January 2020
The 2020 series started with a presentation on January 15th at 7:00AM Eastern time. Kate Abernethy, Msc, Bsc Hons, Dip HE, RN, talked about The Evolution of the Inherited Cardiac Conditions Service at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. Kate is Clinical Nurse Specialist, Inherited Cardiac Conditions, British Heart Foundation, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, United Kingdom.
Click below to play the recording. This will take you to a new window. Click on the play icon to start. The recording is approximately 1 hour 25 minutes.
You can view a PDF of the slides here.
July 2020
After a break in April due to the Covid-19 pandemic the series resumed on July 8th with Ed Miller PhD, Senior Education and Development Officer at the Genomics Education Programme, Health Education England speaking on the topic of Engage, Inform, Educate: An Update from Health Education England’s Genomic Education Programme. In addition to providing an overview of the Programme's work within the context of England's new Genomic Medicine Service, Ed focused on specific initiatives involving the nursing workforce.
Due to technical difficulties with the original webinar a recording including G2NA news and participant updates is unavailable. Dr. Miller has kindly recorded his presentation which is available at Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/700451197
You can view a PDF of the slides here.
UPDATE: An extra date was added to the series. Dr. Miller's presentation was shown on November 4th with a live Q&A immediately after. Ed's presentation starts at at 14.40min
Click below to play the recording. This will take you to a new window. Click on the play icon to start. The recording is approximately 1 hour 15 minutes.
October 2020
Our final sceduled webinar of the year was on Octoer 14th from Dr. Nicole Letourneau PhD MN BN RN FCAHS who is on the Faculty of Nursing and Cumming School of Medicine (Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Community Health Sciences) at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her presentation was a fascinating talk entitled: Parenting Interacts with Plasticity Genes in in Predicting Behavioural Outcomes in Preschoolers.
G2NA 2019 Webinar series
February 2019
The first webinar for 2019 was on February 6th at 7:00AM Eastern time. Dr Kathleen Calzone (National Cancer Institute) and Dr Lois Tully (National Institute of Nursing Research) talked about the OMICS Nursing Science and Education Network (ONSEN) (details can be found here). Please note, because of technical difficulties, the recording of the webinar is available as an .mp4 file hereand can also be viewed on YouTube. Both links open in a new window; total length 1 hour 37 minutes.
April 2019
The second quarterly webinar was on April 10th and included a presentation by Vigdis Stefánsdottir MS, Registered Genetic Counsellor at the Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland. Vigdis talked about the international programme, Gen-Equip, Genetics Education for Primary Care (https://www.primarycaregenetics.org/). Click below to play the recording. This will take you to a new window, when you then click on the play button, total length 56 minutes.
July 2019
Our third webinar this year was on Wednesday July 10th at 7am Eastern Time. Presented by Professor Jane Maguire and Dr Joel Zugai from the Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, their talk was entitled Demystifying DNA Down Under for Nurses: Australian Research and Teaching. Click below to play the recording, total length 1 hour 20 minutes.
Click to download a PDF of the slides and a PDF of the survey talked about.
The webinar generated much discussion. Based on the discussion, Kathleen McCormick wanted to share two links. The first is a video from the US National Institutes of Nursing Research Symptom Science meeting - a showcase of the symptom science at NIH and how the doctors can relate to nursing being a component of genomics through symptom science (the video is 4 hours). The second link is to the guidelines issued by the Clinical Pharmacogenomics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) guidelines.
Dr Caroline Benjamin wanted to share the link to the eurogems website which she thought based on the discussion of the webinar may also be of interest. She said, "It is a site curated by Prof. Edward Tobias (Clinical Director of the Masters programme: MSc in Medical Genetics & Genomics at the University of Glasgow, UK). It has been revamped and has a nice filtering section and it is a signposting site, mainly pointing to other resources rather than new material – but it is very international."
October 2019
The final webinar for 2019 was held on October 9th at 7am Eastern Time. We were delighted that Professor Xianhong Li, PhD, RN joined us to talk about Establishing a Genetic Counseling Program Integrated with the Nurse Practitioner Program in China: A Hybrid Model. Xianhong Li is Professor and Associate Dean at Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, in Hunan, China.
Click below to play the recording, total length 53 minutes. A PDF of the slides can be downloaded here.
After the webinar, Professor Li asked to add further information in follow up to one of the questions:
"As for the training curriculum during the 3-year degree study, there are two parts of training. One is the course work, which requires 48 units credit (each credit= 16 teaching hours), including Human Genetic related knowledge (5 units), Nursing ethics integrated with ethics related to genetics, Communication skills, Research methodology integrated with genetic-related research design and topics, thesis development co-mentored by one faculty from Nursing school and one from the CITIC Xiangya Reproductive and Neonatal Hospital, and also some related courses (such as pharmacology, physiology, advanced nursing skills and so on). All these courses are very relevant to and satisfied with the GC nurses' competency requirements.
The second part is the clinical training, which covers 18 months in the clinical settings. We require them to spend 10 months in the CITIC Xiangya Reproductive and Neonatal Hospital, where they receive bedside learning on GC with their mentors; and 8 months in the relevant departments, such as pediatric ward, NICU, O&B ward, and tumor ward."
G2NA 2018 Webinar series
January 2018
On January 17th 2018 we were pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Mikkelsen from VIA University College Nursing School, who presented on Nursing and Genomics in Denmark. Click below to view the recording (opens in a new window; total length 1 hour 7 minutes).
April 2018
On April 11th, we were delighted to be joined by Dr Vicky Nembaware, Training Coordinator for the H3Africa Consortium. She gave a talk on Community Driven and Competency Based Genomic Medicine Training in Africa. Click below to view the recording (total length 1 hour 19 minutes).
July 2018
Dr Michelle Bishop, Education Development Lead for the Genomics Education Programme, Health Education England joined us on July 11th. Her talk was entitled Engage, inform, educate: A multi-layered approach to raising awareness and understanding of genomics in nursing. Click below to view the recording (1 hour 34 minutes).
October 2018
October's webinar includes a presentation from Dr Johnny Kung, Director of New Initiatives, Personal Genetics Education Project, Harvard Medical School. He spoke on Engaging diverse communities on the benefits and implications of genetics. Click below to view the recording (opens in a new window).
During his presentation, Dr. Kung referenced two websites with open access resources such as lesson plans, games, stories etc. Those urls are:
Personal Genetics Education Project https://pged.org/
Map-Ed Genetics Game http://map-ed.org/maped/
