Below are session descriptions for the 2023 National Conference on Work & Cancer.
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Ask the Experts: The Doctor's Perspective
What role do your physician and extended healthcare team play in thinking through your ability to work? How do you manage treatment side effects while working? Are there work-friendly treatment options to consider? Hear insights on these questions and more from our panel of esteemed medical oncologists.
Ask the Expert: Engaging HR
Approaching human resources (HR) after a cancer diagnosis may seem stressful or overwhelming, but it can be advantageous and sometimes even required. Join Kim Seymour, Etsy’s Chief Human Resources Officer and cancer survivor, in conversation with Cancer and Careers’ Executive Director Rebecca V. Nellis. With two decades in the field, Kim will reflect on past and current experiences to discuss the role of HR, how to talk to your HR personnel more effectively, and ways to navigate employment challenges during/after treatment.
Connecting The Dots: Navigating Work & Cancer
There are many questions to consider while managing work after a diagnosis, and each person’s path will be different based on their work, treatment, and personal circumstances. In this session, Cancer and Careers experts will prepare you with practical guidance, communication strategies, tips for balancing treatment and work, essential tools for an effective job search, an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s reasonable accommodations (and how, even if you aren’t eligible for formal ones, there might be simple and cost-effective job modifications you can make) and so much more.
Ask the Experts: Nutrition
Maintaining a balanced diet can be challenging for anyone but is also vitally important. During this interactive session, our panel of dieticians and nutritionists will answer your questions on planning healthy and affordable meals, boosting immunity, managing weight, minimizing side effects, and developing strategies for eating well at work and beyond.
Connecting The Dots: Managing Stress
Did you know that stress is our body’s way of responding to a demand and not all stress is “bad”? In this 90-minute interactive webinar, psychotherapist, Julie Larson, will guide us through stress 101, identifying stress triggers, proven techniques for stress management, setting boundaries and ideas for how to integrate these into your work-life balance during and after cancer treatment.
Registration
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