June 19, 2024
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This month, Kathryn M. Smolinski, MSW, JD Director, Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic, Associate Clinical Professor, Wayne State University Law School, will focus on what benefits, leave, accommodations and rights you have as you navigate a bone marrow or stem cell transplant and the recovery process. Jennifer Leal, Board Certified Patient Advocate, AML/Stem Cell Transplant Survivor, and Clinical Data Scientist, will share her personal experience and how she advocates to improve health equity for patients needing life-saving therapies. Jennifer Gillette, LMSW, Staff Social Worker at nbmtLINK will host this program. There will be time for live questions.
If you have any technical issues related to registering, please email peggyburkhard@nbmtlink.org or call (248) 770-5172. The call-in information is contained in the form you use to register.
Note: You call in to participate. (We do not call you.)
This FREE program is intended to provide psychosocial and emotional support along with health information from national experts regarding critical topics surrounding cancer and treatments.
Helpful Links
Cancer and Careers
https://www.cancerandcareers.org/en
Trage Cancer
https://triagecancer.org/
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
We acknowledge and thank the following Link Partners for their ongoing support.
Gold Level Link Partners
American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) • Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center • Blood Marrow Transplant Program at Northside Hospital • Corewell Health • Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center • Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Network • Incyte • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center • Meredith A. Cowden Foundation • Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Center • Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center • Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center • The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society • University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center • University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center • Westmead Blood Transplant and Cell Therapies Program
Silver Level Link Partners
Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) • DKMS • Henry Ford Health – Cancer • Nebraska Medicine • UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
