Sara R. Fagerlie, Phd, Chcp Email & Phone Number

Cancer Communicator provides high-quality content development, medical writing, and strategic planning services for hematology and oncology education programs. From simple medical writing tasks to full scale strategic planning and implementation, we will work with your organization to meet your content planning and development needs. Sample services include content development for enduring, live, virtual, and written accredited medical education, conference coverage, clinical strategy, faculty identification and training, outcomes development, manuscript and abstract preparation, and process implementation. Therapeutic experience includes plasma cell dyscrasias, lymphoid and myeloid malignancies, CAR T-cell therapy, hematopoietic stem cell transplant, breast cancer, gynecologic malignancies, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, lung cancers, and glioblastoma. We look forward to helping you with your education needs.

Snohomish, Washington

It was an honor to serve Snohomish students, families, and staff on the Snohomish School District Board of Directors. During my tenure I was committed to equity, safety, transparency, fiscal accountability, and academic excellence. As a district director I collaborated with the 4 other directors and district administration to set the vision and goals for a district of 10,000 students, adopt policies that give the district direction to set priorities and achieve goals, hire and evaluate the superintendent of schools, adopt and oversee annual operating budget, and direct the collective bargaining process for employees of the district.I joined the board to give back to the community that provided me my educational foundation and put students first in all policy and budget decisions that come before the Board.

As Senior Director at Medscape, I led development of all US and global hematology/oncology accredited medical education. My main responsibilities included managing all US- and European-based Medical Education Directors and Medical Writers in the Hematology/Oncology Content Development Department, utilizing therapeutic expertise and understanding of adult learning principles to develop continuing education curricula in accordance with accrediting standards, establishing relationships with thought-leaders, developing standard operating procedures, implementing staff training, working with executive leadership (US and international) to meet revenue goals, and maintaining departmental budgets.My scientific acumen in hematology/oncology therapeutic areas was also leveraged in cross-department collaborations with sales, clinical strategy, grants, outcomes, and product development. The motivation for my work comes from the ability to positively impact care of patients around the world, and I am extremely proud of the education I developed during my tenure at Medscape that benefitted thousands of healthcare providers around the world.

As Senior Medical Education Strategic Director, I led the live division of the Medscape Center of Expertise, partnering with leadership across the organization to develop new educational product offerings, standardized procedures, and staff training.Key successes in this role included:• Evaluation and integration of educational product offerings from acquired companies and development of processes, documentation, timelines, training, and overall execution strategy in compliance with accrediting and quality standards• At the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, quickly transitioned live in-person offerings to live-streaming through novel platforms in collaboration with leadership in both the live business and education units, implemented new procedures, and trained staffIn addition to my Center of Expertise duties, I maintained therapeutic expertise, executing high-quality accredited medical education in accordance with best practices.

Greater Seattle Area

As Scientific Director, I acquired and maintained therapeutic expertise. This expertise was then combined with knowledge of adult learning principals to develop content and outcomes assessments for high-quality, well-balanced accredited continuing education programs targeted at physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. In addition to content development, I collaborated with multiple departments across the organization providing therapeutic expertise for clinical strategy, grants, and outcomes. I have developed hundreds of programs in nearly all areas of hematology/oncology, COVID-19, HIV/AIDs (in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), meningococcal disease, influenza, human papilloma virus (HPV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), infectious disease diagnostics, neurofibromatosis type 1, and rheumatology. Originally, Medscape was one of my clients. I joined them as staff after experiencing the quality and reach of their content which provided me the ability to impact care of patients throughout the world.

Atlanta, Georgia (Worked Remotely From The Greater Seattle Area)

As Director of the Scientific Services Department at ECG, I oversaw development of all accredited continuing medical education (CME) curricula. My group ensured the utilization of best practice models to meet and reduce identified practice gaps. We employed adult learning principles, experiential learning, accepted instructional design models, and scientifically precise content appropriate for the target audience and constructed in accordance with policies and guidelines from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). To do this, I obtained therapeutic expertise through research and collaboration with academic experts. We generated generated fair and balanced scientific content in live and online formats, collaborated with and trained national and international faculty, and built outcomes measures that predisposed and reinforced key educational points in order to provide metrics of educational impact. In this role, I managed staff, contract writers, and departmental budgets, and interpreted and reported educational results for internal and external stakeholders, conference presentations, and peer-reviewed journals.

Atlanta, Georgia (Worked Remotely From The Greater Seattle Area)

Create and execute independent scientifically sound hematology and oncology continuing professional development programs and materials in a variety of formats (both live and e-learning) in accordance with ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC guidelines; develop outcomes assessments and interpret results, identify and train faculty, research and define clinical needs and practice gaps, optimize programming, write needs assessments, grants, newsletters, monographs, and clinical modules, strategically plan novel curricula and educational formats, communicate outcomes to grantors and faculty, and publish key finding.

Atlanta, Georgia (Worked Remotely From The Greater Seattle Area)

Develop continuing medical education programs in specialized areas of medical oncology for a primary audience of physicians, pharmacists and nurses; research, write and edit scientific communications including monographs, newsletters, abstracts, and articles; develop and analyze educational outcomes; and innovate novel educational strategies and formats.

Seattle, Wa

Joint appointment with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.Conduct stem cell biology research, cell-cell and cell-microenvironment interactions, and oncogenesis using Fanconi Anemia as a model system. Responsibilities included researching, planning, and executing scientific experiments; communicating findings via written and oral means; writing grants, original peer-reviewed manuscripts, and review articles; and presenting at scientific meetings and department seminars.

Seattle, Washington

Clinical Division, Program in Transplantation Biology (dual appointment with University of Washington 2005-2008).Research immune cell and stem cell interactions using Fanconi Anemia as a model system. Responsibilities included researching, planning, and executing scientific experiments and reporting results; writing grants, original peer-reviewed manuscripts and review articles; and presenting at scientific meetings and department seminars.

Portland, Oregon

Characterized immunological and cell signaling defects in Fanconi Anemia. Responsibilities included researching, planning, and executing scientific experiments and reporting results; writing grants, original peer-reviewed manuscripts, and review articles; and presenting at scientific meetings.

Portland, Oregon

Characterized cellular signaling defects in Fanconi Anemia cells. Responsibilities included planning and executing scientific experiments and reporting results; writing original peer-reviewed manuscripts; and presenting at scientific meetings, departmental seminars, and grand rounds.

Seattle, Washington

Characterized transcriptional repression of oncogenes by the multivalent transcription factor, CTCF. Responsibilities included researching, planning, executing, and documenting scientific experiments, and reviewing and contributing to original manuscripts

Department Of Bilogical Structure, Seattle, Washington

Studied osteoclast progenitor cell activity and osteoclast colony stimulating factor (O-CSF). Responsibilities included planning, executing, and documenting scientific experiments.

Phd

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)