Update on COVID for People Living with Cancer & Their Caregivers

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Topics Covered

• How to Protect Yourself & Your Loved Ones from COVID, Omicron & Delta Variants
• COVID Vaccines & Booster Vaccines
• Other Vaccines - Flu, Pneumococcal & Shingles Vaccines
• COVID & People Living with Cancer
• Where to Find Reliable Information Regarding this Pandemic & Its Variants
• How to Protect Yourself, Loved Ones & Children from COVID & Its Variants
• The Increasing Role of Telemedicine/Telehealth Appointments
• How to Prepare for Your Telemedicine/Telehealth Appointments, including Prepared List of Questions, Follow-Up Appointments, Quality-of-Life Concerns & Discussion of OpenNotes
• Working Closely with Your Health Care Team about Your Wishes & Health Care Directives
• Tips to Manage the Practical, Emotional & Financial Stresses Related to COVID, Omicron Variants & Cancer
• Self-Care & Stress Management Tips
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Our Panel of Experts

Richard J. Gralla, MD, FACP, FRCP Edin

Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center

Erin Mulvey, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Rosemary S. Soave, MD, FIDSA

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medicine

Michael K. Wong, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Professor, Medical Oncology, Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancies, Executive Director, Integration and Program Development, Cancer Network, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Stewart B. Fleishman, MD

Former Founding Director, Cancer Support Services, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, now part of the Mt. Sinai Health System Author, Researcher in Oncology

Allison Moskowitz Duggan, MSW

Internship Program Manager, CancerCare

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Workshop Date

This workshop was originally recorded on May 22, 2023.