Shushan Hovsepyan Selected as Candidate for Co-Chair of SIOP GHN Research and Innovations Group

SIOP has announced the candidates for the Co-chair position of the GHN Research and Innovations Working Group.

We are proud to annouce that Shushan Hovsepyan, MD, the Editor in Chief of the OncoDaily Medical Journal is among the running candidates for this position.

Candidates:

1. Yotham Gwanika
2. Gaurav Narula
3. Shushan Hovsepyan

The SIOP Global Health Network (GHN) is inviting you to vote for the GHN Research and Innovations WG leadership position.

•       Cast your vote here.
•       Deadline: Thursday 3, 2024 at 12pm CEST

The SIOP Global Health Network (GHN) is a collaborative initiative within the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) aimed at improving cancer care for children and adolescents worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The GHN focuses on addressing disparities in access to treatment, enhancing quality of care, and promoting research in pediatric oncology. It brings together healthcare professionals, researchers, and advocates to share knowledge, develop resources, and implement best practices in pediatric cancer management globally.

About Shushan Hovsepyan

Shushan Hovsepyan is a pediatric oncologist and adjunct assistant professor at the Yerevan State Medical University. Currently, she is the Editor-in-Chief of OncoDaily Medical Journal.

She completed her clinical fellowship at the National Institute of Cancer in Milan, Italy and at the St. Anna Children’s Research Hospital in Austria Furthermore, she held a research fellowship position at the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer in Brussels, Belgium. She is a former co-chair of the SIOP Global Health Network Education and Training Working Group. Shushan Hovsepyan was Scientific committee member at SIOP ASIA 2023.

At OncoDaily, Shushan Hovsepyan hosts a segment called ‘5-Minute Sarcoma Talk,’ where she has interviewed notable experts, including Leo Kager, Rajkumar Venkatramani, Aarin Weiss, Leo Mascarenhas, Andrea Ferrari, Sandra D’Angelo, Vinayak Venkataraman, JoeMcNeill, Roger Wilson, Rob Pieters. (Watch all episodes here.)

Here’s ‘5-Minute Sarcoma Talk’ with Leo Kager:

Education and Work

Shushan received her Medical Degree (M.D.) at the Yerevan State Medical University’s General Medicine faculty from 2014 to 2020. Since May 2023, she has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the OncoDaily Medical Journal.

In January 2023, she took on the role of Adjunct Assistant Professor at YSMU. As of May 2024, she also is an Adjunct Researcher at the Immune Oncology Research Institute in Yerevan. Recently, Shushan Hovsepyan is appointed as Innovation and Development Director at the Immune Oncology Research Institute.

“Being a pediatric oncologist for me is not only a job, it is a lifestyle.”

From December 2023 to May 2024, she worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow at the Immune Oncology Research Institute from April 2023 to May 2024 and completed a research fellowship on patient-reported outcomes at EORTC in Brussels, Belgium, from July to October 2023.

Dr. Shushan Hovsepyan completed her Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Fellowship at the Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center from June 2020 to June 2023.

She also spent time as a Visiting Fellow at the pediatric oncology unit of the St. Anna Children’s Research Hospital in Vienna, Austria, from September 2022 to February 2023, and participated in a Clinical Fellowship at the Pediatric Oncology Unit of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, Italy, from April 2021 to August 2022, where her main focus was on pediatric sarcomas and rare tumors.

Additionally, she completed a postgraduate program in Effective Writing for Health Care at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA, from June 2021 to June 2022.

   “This is one of the proudest moments of my life!”

In October 2022 Shushan Hovsepyan was appointed co-chair of the Global Health Education and Training Working Group of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP).

The Group actively promotes the education and training of all health care providers and ancillary staff from resource-limited settings that participate in the care of children with cancer.

Shushan Hovsepyan is a member of the POEM Training Committee, the Writing Committee for the European Soft Tissue Sarcoma Group (EpSSG), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the European School of Oncology (ESO), the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), and the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP), as well as the Young SIOP. She also serves as a member of the SIOP Asia Scientific Committee for 2023.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• “How to build your career in oncology” at the Academy for Leadership Development and Innovation, Yerevan, Armenia 2023
• “Prevention of Vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy in children and adults with cancer: 2×2 factorial, randomized clinical trial” SIOP Asia 2023
• “Treating Ukrainian refugees at the pediatric oncology unit of the National Cancer Institute of Milan’’ during the accessibility of cancer care in the conflict-affected setting workshop, Yerevan, Armenia
• “Cancer care among Ukrainian refugees” at the Institute of Cancer and Crisis, Expert Interviews
• “Continuous Education, Personal Experience” at the Academy for Leadership Development and Innovation, Yerevan, Armenia 2022, 2024

Shushan Hovsepyan at OncoDaily party during ASCO24

Grants

• St. Jude Euro Regional Travel Grant, SIOPE 2024 Annual Meeting
• “Grant Writing School” International Travel Grant 2023, Italy
• “International Collaboration for Research Methods Development in Oncology (CReDO) Travel Grant, 2023, India
• “College of the European School of Oncology (ESCO) Further Educational Grant 2023
• “College of the European School of Oncology (ESCO) Further Educational Grant 2022
• “Gigax Grant” Clinical Fellowship Grant 2022, Austria
• European School of Oncology Clinical Fellowship Grant 2021, Italy
• Nominal Student Scholarship, Yerevan State Medical University, 2019

Abstracts

1. The Science of Getting Published: Key Factors Influencing Publication in Pediatric Oncology- Sh Hovsepyan, K Bedirian, R Papyan, J Hoveyan, G Tamamyan ASCO 2024 Annual Meeting (poster)
2. Pediatric rare tumors: Experience from Armenia – Sh. Hovsepyan, M. Minasyan, A. Ferrari, G. Tamamyan submitted to the SIOP 2022 Annual Congress
3. Pediatric Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia: Observation in Armenia – H. Grigoryan, Sh. Hovsepyan, G. Tamamyan submitted to the ISTH 2022 Congress
4. Vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy in children with cancer: a report from Armenia – Sh. Hovsepyan, R. Papyan, G. Tamamyan, L. Sargsyan 2021 submitted to the ASPHO Meeting (e-poster)
5. Methotrexate- induced complications in childhood cancer: a report from Armenia 2021 – Sh. Hovsepyan, R. Papyan, L. Sargsyan, G. Tamamyan – submitted to the SIOP 2021 Virtual Con-gress (e-poster)
6. QT interval prolongation in patient with acute T Cell lymphoblastic leukemia – Sh. Hovsepyan, H. Grigoryan, G. Tamamyan – submitted to SIOP 2021 Virtual Congress (online publication)

Shushan Hovsepyan’s poster on “The Science of Getting Published: Key Factors Influencing Publication in Pediatric Oncology” at ASCO2024.

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