September 2025 PMMNG Meeting - "HealthTree's Cure Hub" by Todd Foster and Open Discussion

 

Todd Foster photoWe will be holding our next regular monthly Philadelphia Multiple Myeloma Networking Group (PMMNG) meeting on Saturday, September 13, 2025 from 1:30-3:00 PM EDT via Zoom.  Todd Fraser will be talking about HealthTree's Cure Hub, a patient-oriented data sharing website that gives multiple myeloma patients and caregivers tools to understand the myeloma journey, track treatments, and learn from the experiences of others.

Todd Foster is the Director of Digital Patient Engagement at HealthTree. He worked at MD Anderson Cancer Center for 12 years before helping myeloma patient, Jenny Ahlstrom, start up HealthTree. He specializes in patient experience, helping patients understand their options and become decision makers with their care teams. Todd has a passion for using technology that can help patients have a better life, and along the way, help to further research for a cure.

While the meeting itself will begin at 1:30, we will be starting the Zoom at 1:00 pm for anyone interested in having a little more time to talk to one another informally or ask questions.

Please note that we are peers, not doctors. So please be sure and discuss anything you hear in the meeting that might change your own considerations regarding treatment or side effects with your own doctor(s).

All PMMNG members will receive a meeting invitation via email.  If you are new to the group or our meetings, contact Barbara Falkowitz (b[email protected]) to receive the meeting link. 

We look forward to seeing you on Zoom!

Note: We also want to remind you about the Philadelphia Myeloma Roundtable that HealthTree is hosting November 1, 2025. For more information, please click here. HealthTree is also sponsoring a Connect To Cures event in Brooklyn on October 11, 2025. More information about that event is here.

Also, The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is introducing M Power to the Philadelphia area on Wednesday, September 10 at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church at 10 am. Dr Joseph Mikhael will be presenting current information about multiple myeloma. There will be a panel discussion followed by Q and A and a reception. PMMNG will have a table to encourage new members to sign up. Please consider attending to support PMMNG and the IMF in spreading information about multiple myeloma. You can find more information here.