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November 11, 2024

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Clinical and Translational Research Grand Rounds: “Optimizing Long-Term Health in Childhood Cancer Survivors: From Observation to Intervention”

Date: Friday, December 6, 2024, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET.

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Speakers: Nina S. Kadan-Lottick, M.D., M.S.P.H.

 

Dr. Kadan-Lottick is Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics and Directs the Survivorship Research Initiative at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a practicing Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Clinical Trialist, and National Cancer Institute-supported investigator focused on improving medical, cognitive, and psychosocial long-term outcomes for children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer across the lifespan by developing, assessing and implementing chemoprotectant, health behavior, and multi-level healthcare delivery interventions. Despite high cure rates for childhood cancer, most survivors develop chronic health conditions as unintended consequences of their curative therapies, resulting in considerable morbidity and early mortality.  Beyond benefit to childhood cancer survivors, this research may provide many insights on meeting the long-term health care needs of survivors of other severe illnesses of childhood such as prematurity, sickle cell disease, and cystic fibrosis.

 

View more information on the event here.

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