Cancer Survivorship 101: Gynecological Cancer Survivorship

"Better Sleep for Cancer Survivors", with Eric Zhou, PhD
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.
Gynecological Cancer Survivorship
Don S. Dizon, MD, FACP, FASCO (he/him)
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Surgery, Brown University, Lifespan Cancer Institute
Director, Pelvic Malignancies Program, Lifespan Cancer Institute Director, Medical Oncology, Rhode Island Hospital
Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement, Legoretta Cancer Center at Brown University
Founding Member, Collaboration for Outcomes using Social Media in Oncology
Don S. Dizon is a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Surgery at Brown University. He is a medical oncologist specializing in pelvic malignancies, survivorship particularly as it pertains to sexual health for men and women with cancer, and social media. He grew up on the Pacific Island of Guam, and completed undergraduate and medical school at the University of Rochester in New York. He trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New-Haven Hospital and completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC.
He serves as the Director of The Pelvic Malignancies Program and Director of Hematology-Oncology clinics at Lifespan Cancer Institute, Director of Medical Oncology at Rhode Island Hospital, and leads Community Outreach and Engagement for The Legoretta Cancer Center at Brown University. He serves as Chair of Digital Engagement for SWOG Oncology Research Network and Co-Chief Medical Officer of the nonprofit, Global Cancer Institute. He is on the advisory boards of multiple nonprofits, including the Hope Foundation for Cancer Research and the LGBTQ Cancer Network. He writes an online column for the journal, The Oncologist, and for ASCO Connection.
Dr. Dizon is a founding member of the Collaboration for Outcomes Using Social Media in Oncology and is active on many platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Follow him @drdonsdizon.
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