Clinical and Translational Research Grand Rounds: “Optimizing Long-Term Health in Childhood Cancer Survivors: From Observation to Intervention”
Speaker:
Nina S. Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH
Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics
Director, Survivorship Research Initiative, Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Presentation: “Optimizing Long-Term Health in Childhood Cancer Survivors: From Observation to Intervention”
Synopsis: Despite high cure rates for childhood cancer, most survivors develop chronic health conditions as unintended consequences of their curative therapies, resulting in considerable morbidity and early mortality. Beyond benefit to childhood cancer survivors, this research may provide many insights on meeting the long-term health care needs of survivors of other severe illnesses of childhood, such as prematurity, sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis.
About the Speaker: Dr. Kadan-Lottick is a practicing pediatric hematologist-oncologist, clinical trialist, and NCI-supported investigator focused on improving medical, cognitive and psychosocial long-term outcomes for children, adolescents and young adults with cancer across the lifespan by developing, assessing and implementing chemoprotectant, health behavior and multilevel health care delivery interventions.
Sponsored by the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS)