Cancer Survivorship 101: The Office of Cancer Survivorship of the National Institute of Health

The Office of Cancer Survivorship of the National Institute of Health and How it Can Help Cancer Survivors in Our Community
with Emily Tonorezos MD, MPH
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.
Emily Tonorezos MD, MPH
Director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Emily S. Tonorezos, MD, MPH, serves as Director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship, part of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this position, Dr. Tonorezos leads NCI’s efforts to address the challenges facing cancer survivors and their families -- to prevent or mitigate adverse effects and to improve the health and well-being of cancer survivors from the time of diagnosis through the remainder of their lives.
Dr. Tonorezos came to NCI from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Weill Cornell Medical College, both in New York, NY, where she served as Director of the Adult Long-Term Follow-Up Program for survivors of childhood and young adult cancers. Her research focuses on cardiometabolic consequences of cancer therapy, childhood and young adult cancer survivorship, diet and nutrition, and care coordination for this population. She has served on the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Childhood Cancer and Disability; the Cancer Survivorship Committee, the Adolescent and Young Adult Task Force, and the Clinical Guideline Committee for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO); and the Metabolic Syndrome Guideline Committee for the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). She is currently co-leader of the International Guideline Harmonization Group for the metabolic syndrome and led an international effort to develop recommendations for adult survivors of heritable retinoblastoma.
Dr. Tonorezos is a general internist, having earned her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and masters in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at Columbia University Medical Center, as well as a general internal medicine fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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