Cancer Survivorship 101: "Caring for a Loved One with Cancer: Let's Talk"

"Caring for a Loved One with Cancer: Let's Talk" with Kelly M. Shaffer, Ph.D.
Due to the quarantine, we had to cancel our annual in-person Cancer Survivorship 101 event that was planned for June, 2020. Instead, we created a series of video lectures presented here on our website and our KZbin page featuring the speakers that were to be highlighted at the event.
Kelly M. Shaffer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Behavioral Health and Technology
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Kelly Shaffer is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, having completed training at the University of Miami, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Specializing in family caregiving and psychosocial oncology, her work examines how to modernize and expand psychosocial care to cancer caregivers through scalable and effective technology-based interventions.
Survivor Journeys has been a non-profit organization since March, 2015. Its origins, began during the year-long medical quarantine Dr Jay Burton lived through after his stem cell transplant for Acute Myeloid Leukemia which ended in late October 2011. Dr Burton’s emotional and social support experiences prompted speaking engagements about cancer survivorship. The community interest generated from these talks, as well as the lack of emotional and support services for cancer survivors in our region, led to the creation of Survivor Journeys. Learn more at survivorourneys.org