Category: Healthcare Provider stories

Regional nurses may not see many actual stem cell transplants happen, because most stem cell transplants are performed in our major capital cities. But that doesn’t mean that regional nurses aren’t involved in the process. Many of the patients and families that we support are from regional centres, and while they may have to relocate […]

Victoria Okey is a Registered Nurse at the Royal Hobart Hospital, where she has worked in haematology and oncology for the past four years. As a graduate nurse, Victoria gained vital experience caring for acutely unwell patients on the oncology inpatient unit, before transitioning to the Day Chemotherapy Unit, where she now provides support and […]

We would like to congratulate Simone Jensen from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney on being awarded a Sylvia Hartog Scholarship to attend the Asia Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group (APBMT) meeting in Singapore. Simone is a highly skilled and long-serving nurse, and has been invited by the APBMT scientific committee as a guest speaker […]

The people of the village together again at ANZTCT 2024 Earlier this month we had the privilege of partnering with the Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies (ANZTCT) to present their Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton-Le-Sands, Sydney. An amazing group of brilliant minds dedicated to treating people who need a bone marrow or […]

In April we announced the four most recent recipients of our Arrow Jazz Pharmaceutical Conference Travel Scholarships, among them Emma Munro, from the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital,  & Priscilla Gates from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Emma & Priscilla both attended the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Conference in Lille, France. MASCC […]

Nurse Practitioner, Yvonne Panek-Hudson was among this year’s recipients of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals Conference and Travel Scholarships. She was awarded the scholarship to support her attendance at EBMT 2024 in Glasgow . Yvonne hit quite a few goals while she was there: She gave both an oral and a poster presentation, attended the Canada-Australia-New Zealand-United Kingdom Transplant and Cellular […]

Is it possible to thrive after a bone marrow transplant, not merely survive? When you’re having a bone marrow transplant, it can feel as if your whole world stops. Everything else is put on hold while you hunker down and focus on getting through your treatment. And rightly so! What not many people stop to […]

We are pleased to be able to introduce the most recent recipient of Arrow’s Masters Scholarship: Cristina Lucas. Cristina was a surgical nurse before joining Xavier 9 South, one of the acute inpatient cancer services wards covering the specialties of haematology and bone marrow transplant at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. Initially, Cristina had reservations […]

Arrow’s Professor Driscoll Scholarships have recently been awarded to three specialist nurses. Congratulations to: Charlotte Anderson, Royal Hobart Hospital – studying the Principles of Cancer Care module Jaclyn Lindstrom, Calvary Mater Newcastle – studying Foundations of Haematology Nursing Jessica Cashford, Townsville University Hospital – studying Foundations of Haematology Nursing   Charlotte Anderson: Charlotte didn’t give […]

How do doctors know what treatment is likely to help which patient? Data. And lots of it. Years, no decade after decade of it. While you probably won’t ever see a TV series with the likes of a dreamy Patrick Dempsey playing the role of key data manager, here at Arrow, we think data managers […]

We are proud to have supported two nurses to attend Blood 2023, a haematology focused conference in Melbourne: Serafina Levak from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney who received the Shaun Rosen Scholarship and Kylie Sih from Royal Hobart Hospital who received funding through the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship. Both nurses had valuable experiences at […]

A big part of what we do here at Arrow is help build a strong community of support around bone marrow transplant patients. One of the ways we do that is to help BMT nurses attend conferences where they can learn from and with their colleagues around the world. We recently awarded Babita Khanal from […]