Leslee Bertram

• Serve as primary point of contact for oncology products in hospital systems and community oncology practices in eastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee. Therapeutic areas of focus include HER2 + breast cancer, PD-L1 + non-small cell lung cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma.
• Address and identify opportunities for pulling through Genentech's local market strategies at the point-of-care
• Leads end to end experience for assigned customers/ accounts and drives clinical and non-clinical decision making at the point of care working with healthcare practitioners on topics ranging from clinical education, to screening, testing, palliative care, and non-clinical education (reimbursement, contract awareness, advocacy, etc)
• Deep understanding of the overall and unspecified abstract needs of patients, all customer archetypes, and Genentech, including goals and challenges across clinical and non-clinical domains
• Develops solutions to unusually complex problems relative to own scope (accounts, customer, geography) using multiple dynamic sources of information
• Deliver education to health care providers regarding product information, appropriate use, and dosing and administration based on FDA approved product information and formulary/pathways/guidelines
• Address product acquisition (contract awareness, etc), and address supply matters through coordination of distribution issues, and managing spoilage and returns
• Ensure product access to provide proactive (and de-identified) education on patient assistance, reimbursement resources.
• Keep abreast of customer and healthcare industry trends. Initiates development actions to constantly adapt and grow capabilities to increase impact

• Worked collaboratively with mulitdisciplinary team to provide advanced practice nursing care to children, adolescents and young adults with cancer in the inpatient and outpatient settings
• Educated patients, family members and caregivers on patient diagnosis and treatment plan
• Member of the multidisciplinary care team responsible for management of patients in the pediatric cancer survivor clinic
• Collaborated with division chief to provide medical management for ~ 50 patients with chronic ITP.
• Collaborated with leadership to devise initiatives for improving nursing satisfaction, retention and morale including implementation of the Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Nurses (APHON) Chemotherapy/Biotherapy curriculum for nursing staff
• Founder and past-president of the Lexington APHON Chapter
• Planned and executed successful pediatric oncology nursing symposium beginning in 2014. This symposium continues to be an annual event
• Led team in driving successful patient outcomes by prioritizing standard of care and best practices.
• Pediatric Clinical Instructor for the University of Kentucky College of Nursing
• Preceptor for numerous APRN students during their clinical rotations

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• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.

• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.

• Provided age-appropriate nursing care to infants, children, adolescents and young adults in Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's 24 bed inpatient bone marrow transplant unit
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.

• Provided age-appropriate nursing care to infants, children, adolescents and young adults on a 24 bed inpatient bone marrow transplant unit
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.

• Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
• Recorded all patient discussions and transactions in charts for future reference.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Completed chemotherapy administration as dictated by physician's instructions on each patient's chart.