11. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Corinne Tillier (NL), Chair
Qualified as a State Registered Nurse in 1992 and commenced her career at the Cancer Institute of Bordeaux (France). In 2000 she moved to the Netherlands where she worked on oncology wards. In 2005 she received her Diploma in Oncology Nursing. Working as a research nurse she was involved in several studies in onco-urology (prostate carcinoma and renal cell carcinoma).
In 2010 she moved to the Netherlands Cancer Institute (uro-oncology) in Amsterdam and in 2012 earned a Master’s in Advanced Nursing Practice (MANP diploma) at the University of Applied Sciences. She now specialises in localised prostate and renal cell carcinoma and penile carcinoma.
She is author and co-author of several scientific publications, an active lecturer throughout Europe and writes columns in the Bulletin Infirmier du Cancer about published results of nursing studies. She is an active member of the Panel of the Dutch Guidelines for Renal Cell Carcinoma and Prostate Carcinoma and a member of the French Association of Oncology Nurses (A.F.I.C.)
Since October 2012 she has been a member of the EAUN and in March 2015 joined the EAUN Board. In March 2016 she became Chair of the EAUN Scientific Congress Office.
Kaljit Kaur (UK)
Qualified and commenced her career in urology as a Registered General Nurse in 2001 and worked in the North East of England until 2017. Her time here began working as part of the inpatient care service and team that she then went on to manage. A change in direction led to her implementation of a nurse-led urology emergency service, in which she worked as a nurse practitioner before deciding to relocate south.
Currently she is a Urology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, specialising in prostate cancer at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London, alongside studying for her MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) degree.
More recently her clinical role has expanded within prostate cancer diagnostics and she is currently working across South West London, assisting with the delivery of a rapid access prostate diagnostic project. As part of this work she is currently learning how to perform MRI fusion transperineal prostate biopsies independently. She is a member of EAUN and the British Association of Urological Nurses.
Philip Cornford (UK)
Trained in London and Liverpool and was appointed Consultant Urological Surgeon in 2001. Currently he is the Clinical Director at the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals where he leads the combined Urology, Nephrology and Transplantation service. He is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. His clinical practice has focused on urological malignancy, and he has also actively contributed to research on the molecular mechanism behind the development of androgen independent prostate cancer growth and recruiting to a number of clinical trials.
He is also a member of the BAUS Specialist Advisory Committee in Urology, Vice-Chair of the EAU Prostate Cancer Guidelines Panel and a member of the EAU Guidelines Office Board.
Gijs De Lauw (NL)
Qualified as a State Registered Nurse in 2003 and commenced his career as a paediatric nurse at the Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in Nijmegen, Netherlands. In 2006 he started to study at the University of Utrecht for a Degree in Nursing Science that he obtained in 2009.
After a short period of working as a scientist he started to work at the Department of Urology at Radboudumc, where he started his training Master Advanced Nursing Practice (MANP) to become a nurse practitioner.
In his daily practice he works with patients who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He plays a critical role in the screening of patients and is independently performing (fusion) biopsies of the prostate.
In September 2018 he will go back to school to start further training to become a physician assistant.
Janette Kinsella (UK)
Qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1996 (UK), she has more than 20 years’ experience in Uro-Oncology as a staff nurse, nurse specialist, advanced nurse practitioner and more recently Nurse Consultant. She is current chair of the urology pathway vanguard group for Royal Marsden Partners (South, south-west, north-west London).
Her clinical practice includes new patient diagnostics using a transrectal and transperineal prostate biopsy (with MRI Fusion) approach. She also established a urology survivorship clinic (pre-hab to re-hab) service at The Royal Marsden Hospital, (NHS England innovation award) which is now accessed by patients across the UK .
She completed an MSc in Developing cancer nursing practice at Kings College London in 2009 winning the Wilson Barnett prize for best dissertation. She is currently completing a PhD thesis on prostate cancer active surveillance at Kings College London.
She is extensively published on all aspects of prostate cancer from diagnostics to survivorship and teaches worldwide (both nurses and physicians) on diagnostics and nurse-led care.
Ingrid Charlotte Klinge Iversen (NO)
Qualified as a State Registered Nurse in 1992 (Oslo) and commenced her career at Kristiansund Hospital on the North West coast of Norway. She is now working as a urotherapist in an outpatient clinic at the same hospital.
She has some experience in reading scientific articles and writing academic procedures, as the professional development nurse in the clinic for 2 years and from two further education qualifications: Specialist Nurse in Rehabilitation (Ålesund) and Urotherapy (Bergen).
As a urotherapist her main responsibilities include patient observation through different urological tests and taking medical histories, and guiding patients to cope better with their illnesses. She follows up paediatric and adult patients who have different bladder dysfunctions. She assists urologists with prostate biopsy, and follows up patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.
She leads a 2-day course every 6 months for patients who have or have had prostate cancer.
Hanneke Lurvink (NL)
Has worked for EAU since 2006. She was appointed coordinator for all EAUN activities in 2006. She has assisted the EAUN Working Groups for all eight EAUN Guidelines since 2007 with editorial work, finding the right illustrations, copyright issues, literature search, data extraction and retrieving full-text papers, contributing to the design of flowcharts, and playing an important role in the planning and keeping of deadlines. She is a member of the Guidelines International Network.
Tiago Santos (PT)
Qualified as Registered Nurse in 2012 in Portugal and started his career in a rehabilitation unit. In 2014 he moved to the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, a reference oncology centre in Lisbon, and started as the responsible nurse for the urology outpatient clinic. He continues to work at Champalimaud Center for the Unknown while he finished his Master Degree and Specialty in Rehabilitation Nursing in 2018.
In his daily practice he plays a major role as the reference nurse for patients who are being investigated and those who already have a diagnosis of urological cancer. He follows up patients and performs all the nursing interventions required. The interventions are mostly provided to prostate cancer patients, mainly in the areas of urinary continence and sexual rehabilitation. He assists urologists with prostate biopsy and performs follow-up for early identification of potential complications.
He is also involved in research programmes about quality of life after radical prostatectomy and active surveillance. Since 2015 he has been an EAUN member. In 2017 he was invited to give a presentation at the 18th International Meeting of the EAUN.
Giulia Villa (IT)
Registered Nurse, Master Degree in Nursing Sciences. Nurse Coordinator at the Urology Department, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy. She has worked in the field of urology since 2005 and as a lecturer since 2008.
Board member of EAUN and Member of the Italian Association of Urology Nurses.
She is involved in developing several research projects in urology related to bladder cancer, prostate cancer and urinary tract infection.
Special interests: bladder and prostate cancer, urinary diversion, urinary tract infection, self-care, and fast-track surgery.