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Category Archives: Lunch & Learn

Everything You Need to Know About CAR T-Cell Therapy

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This month’s telephone educational and support program will focus on all things CAR T-cell Therapy. Dr. Lawrence E. Morris is a board certified oncologist at both the Northside Hospital Leukemia Program and Northside Hospital Inpatient BMT Unit, and the Apheresis Collection Facility Co-Director of Atlanta Blood Services. Dr. Morris will break it down for us and share his expertise. CAR T-cell patient, Ray Gillespie, an NHL survivor, now in full remission will share his personal experience including details about his life-saving clinical trial. The nbmtLINK’s licensed staff social worker, Jennifer Gillette, will facilitate the program. There will also be plenty of time for live questions.

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How the Reconstitution of the Immune System After Transplantation Influences Outcomes

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Jaap Jan Boelens, MD, PhD, Chief, Stem Cell Transplantation, MSKCC and Cellular Therapies and Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University will break it down for us and help transplant patients learn about factors that influence the immunological situation post-transplant that will result in the best possible outcomes. As well, a young patient’s parent/caregiver will share their personal experience and best tips. The nbmtLINK’s licensed staff social worker, Jennifer Gillette, will facilitate the program. There will also be plenty of time for live questions.

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Improving Quality of Life with Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGVHD)

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Improving the Quality of Life and Care for Patients Living with Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGVHD). This presentation will focus on the unmet needs, barriers and supportive care for patients with cGVHD. It will include information on palliative care This will be presented by Areej El-Jawahri, MD, Assist. Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Survivorship Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Director of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Survivorship Program. Additionally, Barbara Ginsberg will share her wisdom as a patient with cGVHD.

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Light Intervention to Reduce Fatigue and Depression

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The Use of Light Intervention to Reduce Fatigue and Depression in Individuals Undergoing Cancer Treatment or in Survivorship. This month’s speakers are William H. Redd, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Katherine N. DuHamel, Ph.D., Attending Psychologist,Director, MSK Psycho-oncology Education & Training Institute, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry Service & Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry.

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Emotional Challenges

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Emotional challenges that accompany a cancer diagnosis and a bone marrow transplant journey. Licensed clinical social worker, Shirley Otis-Green, is the speaker. Additionally, Rhonda Kokot, an Acute Myeloid Leukemia survivor, will share her personal story. The nbmtLINK’s licensed social worker, Jennifer Gillette, LMSW, will facilitate the program.

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Treating Multiple Myeloma

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A better understanding of the role played by bone marrow/stem cell transplant and minimal residual disease in treating multiple myeloma.
The call featured Dr. Stephanie Williams, Division Chief, Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Spectrum Health Cancer Center along with Multiple Myeloma Journey Partner and survivor Barbara Hanson.

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