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Date: May 3, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Check-in and refreshments at 6:00 p.m, presentation from 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m
Speaker(s):
Stewart B. Fleishman, MD
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Winner of an American Journal of Nursing 2011 “Book of the Year” Award, LEARN to Live Through Cancer: What You Need to Know and Do is an innovative guide of early symptom intervention for patients and their families. Designed to travel with a patient and family from the time of initial consultation through long-term survivorship or end-of-life care, the focus is on practical information and techniques to prepare in advance for the usual and expectable events that occur during the diagnostic period and treatment. It also promotes healthy living all the way through. The accompanying providers’ textbook, Manual of Cancer Treatment Recovery: What the Practitioner Needs to Know and Do, will help cancer specialists reinforce symptom management and introduce survivorship care into their practices. Together, the books will help reduce the educational burden on providers so that they can focus on the surgical, chemotherapeutic and radiation therapy components of care.
About the Speaker(s)
Stewart B Fleishman, MD founded and directed Cancer Supportive Services at Continuum Cancer Centers of New York: Beth Israel and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt. He also served as the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Continuum Hospice Care, and the Chair of its Ethics Committee. Dr. Fleishman is an investigator at the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, a National Cancer Institute-sponsored cooperative clinical trials group, and was the Vice Chair of its Quality of Life Sub-Committee. His research interests include running trials to reverse cancer-related weight loss, fatigue, quality of life and cognitive impairment. Currently, he surveys cancer centers around the country for accreditation assessment from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. He is Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Psychiatry/Neurology. Prior to attending medical school, Dr. Fleishman taught in the New York City public schools.
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