Update on COVID for People Living with Cancer & Their Caregivers

Monday, May 22, 2023, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Eastern Time

Registrants can listen in live over the phone or online as a webcast.

Topics Covered

• How to Protect Yourself & Your Loved Ones from COVID, Omicron & Delta Variants
• COVID Vaccines & Booster Vaccines
• Other Vaccines - Flu, Pneumococcal & Shingles Vaccines
• COVID & People Living with Cancer
• Where to Find Reliable Information Regarding this Pandemic & Its Variants
• How to Protect Yourself, Loved Ones & Children from COVID & Its Variants
• The Increasing Role of Telemedicine/Telehealth Appointments
• How to Prepare for Your Telemedicine/Telehealth Appointments, including Prepared List of Questions, Follow-Up Appointments, Quality-of-Life Concerns & Discussion of OpenNotes
• Working Closely with Your Health Care Team about Your Wishes & Health Care Directives
• Tips to Manage the Practical, Emotional & Financial Stresses Related to COVID, Omicron Variants & Cancer
• Self-Care & Stress Management Tips
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Our Panel of Experts

Richard J. Gralla, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center

Erin Mulvey, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Michael K. Wong, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Professor, Medical Oncology, Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancies, Executive Director, Integration and Program Development, Cancer Network, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Stewart B. Fleishman, MD

Former Founding Director, Cancer Support Services, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, now part of the Mt. Sinai Health System Author, Researcher in Oncology

Allison Moskowitz Duggan, MSW

Internship Program Manager, CancerCare

Continuing Education Credits

(Live Only)

Social Workers: This program has been submitted to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, an approved provider through the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, provider #CS4607, for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Cancer Care, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0088. This workshop is approved for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Registered Dietitians: This program has been submitted to the Commission on Dietetic Registration for one Continuing Professional Education Unit (CPEU).

To request continuing education paperwork, please email your name, profession, and address to connect@cancercare.org after the program. All paperwork for continuing education credit must be requested, completed, and submitted within two weeks of the live program.

Brochure

You can download the brochure for this workshop