St. Jude-VIVA Survivorship Webinar Series
7 Jan 2022 - 17 June 2022 | 20.00 - 21:30 (UTC+8 | SGT)
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VIVA Foundation for Children with Cancer in collaboration with the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is excited to announce a new webinar series that will focus on childhood cancer survivorship care. The objective of the series to is educate health care professionals about medical and psychosocial risks associated with childhood cancer and its therapy.
The series will involve twice monthly 1.5 hours presentations over a 6-month period. Webinars will feature salient survivorship topics including:
- Introduction to late effects and survivorship care planning
- Organ health after childhood cancer
- Reproductive late effects and pregnancy outcomes
- Subsequent malignant neoplasms
- Neurocognitive and psychosocial late effects
Lectures will be targeted at medical and behavioral health professionals at all training levels who provide care for children and adolescents with cancer. Individuals who complete the series with receive a certificate acknowledging advanced training in survivorship care.
Medical professionals in Singapore may eligible for CME/CPE/CNE credits for attending this webinar.
Register here:
https://www.stjudevivasurvivorship.com/registration
Meeting Footprint and Program information can be found at:
https://www.stjudevivasurvivorship.com/programme
CHAIR
Dr Melissa Hudson
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Cancer Survivorship Division
Co-Leader, Cancer Control & Survivorship Program
The Charles E. Williams Endowed Chair of Oncology-Cancer Survivorship
Melissa M. Hudson, MD is currently a Member and Director of the Cancer Survivorship Division in the Department of Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where she holds the Charles E. Williams Endowed Chair of Oncology-Cancer Survivorship. She directs the After Completion of Therapy Program, which now monitors over 5000 long-term childhood cancer survivors treated on St. Jude trials. Dr. Hudson serves as Co-Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group Long-Term FollowUp Guidelines for Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer and Co-Chair of the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group. She is also the Chair of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Education Committee. She works collaboratively with multidisciplinary investigators at St. Jude and within COG, IGHG and the CCSS in research initiatives evaluating biomedical and psychosocial outcomes among childhood cancer survivors and translating data from health outcomes research into evidence-informed clinical practice guidelines and interventions to improve the quality and duration of survival after childhood cancer. She has published widely on her research initiatives in pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma, late treatment sequelae after childhood cancer, and health education of childhood cancer survivors.