Meet the experts

Janet Forgenie works at University College Hospital London as a Uro-oncology CNS managing patients
with organ confined disease as well as metastatic disease having chemotherapy, radiotherapy and
immunotherapy treatments primarily for prostate but also with bladder and penile cancer. She has a
specialist interest in penile cancer patients who undergo extensive treatment regimens with complex
health care needs.

Over the years as a uro-oncology CNS Janet has been involved in setting up patient support groups and
information seminars for radiotherapy patients which have proven very successful. She has also been involved in an exercise pilot for prostate patients on hormone treatments to encourage exercise to help manage some of the unpleasant side effects from hormones, such as bone health, body image and weight gain.

Her background of diagnostic urology has helped extensively in the management of prostate cancer
patients, and as a nurse prescriber Janet feels this has been invaluable in the development of a truly independent nurse led service.

Janet started her nursing career in Canterbury Kent, achieving her Nursing Diploma in 1994 and Degree in 1997. During her nursing career Janet has worked primarily within urology and oncology, and her current role as a Uro-oncology CNS that combines both specialities is ideal.

Janet’s urology experience has been extensive over the past 26 years, working with benign urology as well
as oncology urology. She has experience with diagnostic urology, urodynamics and continence and
bladder function and has also been involved in pathway development and service development.
Janet also has three years of oncology experience, one of which was spent in Australia working with chemotherapy patients and the other two working on an inpatient chemotherapy ward.

Brenda Martone is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner working in GU oncology at Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL. She graduated with her BSN from Concordia College/West Suburban College of Nursing in 1989, received her MSN/CNS degree from Loyola University in 1996 and then completed a post-master’s certificate to become an adult nurse practitioner from Rush University in 2008. 
Brenda is an advanced oncology certified nurse practitioner and has been an oncology nurse for over 31 years.  She has been a member of several medical advisory boards, as well as developed programs about metastatic and non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. 
Brenda Martone is a frequent national and regional lecturer and a member of the Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO).

Veerle Lamotte has worked as an oncology nurse practitioner at Antwerp University Hospital since 2013. She graduated as a nurse in 2001, working initially in intensive care before moving to work in oncology in 2010.
Veerle supports and guides patients within the tumour cluster uro-oncology care process; from diagnosis, during treatment, follow-up phase and at relapse. 
As an oncology nurse she has detailed knowledge and experience of urology, oncology and palliative care.
Veerle is also a board member of UROBEL (the Belgian National Association for Urological Nurses) which keep nurses in Belgium informed about new strategies in uro-oncological healthcare. 

Jennifer Sutton is a registered nurse and the Director of Nursing and Administration at Carolina Urologic Research Center in Myrtle Beach, SC. 
After receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science with a minor in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina, she earned her Associate Degree in Nursing from Horry Georgetown Technical College. Jennifer is a member of the Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP).  
She is an ACRP-certified Clinical Research Coordinator and has more than 11 years of experience managing and administering cutting edge therapies to patients with genitourinary malignancies and other urologic disorders.  Additionally, she manages a team of research professionals that coordinate phase I-IV clinical trials in all areas of urology.  In recent years, she has served on multiple prostate cancer and bladder cancer advisory boards and has published articles on emerging prostate cancer treatments and effective structuring and management of a clinical research center. 

Jason Alcorn is the Nurse Consultant for Uro-oncology and Andrology at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.  He has worked at the Trust for 20 years. The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is a specialist cancer centre for urological cancers.
Jason started in the nursing profession after a career in the military.  After completing a Bachelor’s degree developing student nurse resources, he then studied for a Master’s degree seeking to understand registered nurse understanding of delegation to healthcare assistants.  This led to him being a fellow of the higher education academy and a registered teacher.  He then studied for a professional doctorate seeking to understand why patients withdraw early from Bacillus Calmette-Guerin treatment for urothelial cancer.
Jason has presented at several national and international conferences, as well as running workshops locally and in the Middle East on behalf of EAUN, and he has also published several articles from his research activity.  He is an active board member of the European Association of Urological Nurses (EAUN) and his responsibilities on the board include education, accreditation and endorsement.
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Pablo Peinado is a Senior Research Nurse at Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria in Malaga, Spain.  Pablo gained his Nursing Degree at the University of Valencia in 2014 and moved to the UK where he worked as a surgical nurse for two years.  In 2016 he received his Clinical Trials master’s degree and started to work as a Haematology Research Nurse at Churchill Hospital, Oxford where he was in charge of conducting different clinical trials for haematology patients.

Pablo moved back to Spain in 2017 to be part of a new GU tumour unit under Dr David Olmos at Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga and worked as an Oncology Research Nurse with GU patients diagnosed with prostate, bladder and kidney cancer, coordinating early and late phase clinical trials.  He has recently been promoted to lead a new Clinical Research Unit and is in charge of coordinating a unit where the objectives are to treat patients with the most advanced medications and provide a personalised approach to their disease so that they can participate more actively during their treatment, learning about their disease and understanding the process of their treatment.

Paul Kuppinger, MSN FNP-BC graduated from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona in 2002 with baccalaureate degree in nursing. He has spent over 12 years and 20,000 hours on a progressive medical-oncology unit attending to various acute medical illnesses prior to becoming a nurse practitioner. He earned a degree of Master of Science in Nursing/Family Nurse Practitioner from The University of Phoenix in 2014.

Paul is a nationally board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and credentialed through The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

Joanne Chien graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from San Jose State University with Cum Laude Honor and then trained and worked as a Registered Nurse for 5 years on a Medical-Surgical unit at Stanford Hospital.  In 2008 she received her Master of Science in Nursing with Gerontological Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of California, San Francisco. 
She has worked as a Nurse Practitioner since 2010 with the first four years in the Community Living Center at Veterans Affairs Health Care System managing patients with complex medical and mental health conditions and providing inpatient Hospice care. 
Joanne returned to Stanford Hospital in 2014 and works as a Nurse Practitioner in Urologic Medical Oncology specializing in treating urologic cancers, managing treatment-related side effects and participating in clinical trials as a sub-investigator.  
Joanne was born and raised in Taiwan and is bilingual in Mandarin and English.

Giulia Villa is nurse manager in the Urology Department at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Giulia attended her PhD in 2019. In 2017 she started her work in urology setting and now she is principally committed in activities such as nurse staffing, nursing care and research in nursing urology. From 2008 she is also a lecturer teaching Research Methodology and Evidence Based Practice at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan.

She involves in developing several research projects in Urology and she published a number of articles in self-care and quality of life of ostomy patients, sex-related difference in ostomy patients, nutrition in urinary stones and in bladder cancer patients, urinary tract infection.

Giulia is a member of the board of Italian European Association of Urology Nurses and Association of Urology Nurses. She is also a member of the board of European Oncology Nursing Society, European Council of Enterostomal Therapist, Italian Delegate for World Council of Enterostomal Therapist.

Her research and quality improvement interest include self-care, quality of life, ostomy, bladder and prostate cancer, urinary diversion, urinary tract infection, nutrition, fast track surgery, robotic surgery.