Our October 2017 meeting will be held on Saturday October 14. This will be a Patient/Family Split meeting. After the general announcements, patients will meet in one room and family members in another.
Note: Christina's presentation slides are now available as attachments below. Her presentation needed to be broken into two files due to website limitations.
We’ve decided to cancel our end-of-year meeting scheduled for Saturday December 9. Given the weather reports about the imminent storm, we decided to use an abundance of caution so that no one puts themselves at risk to travel. If you know anyone who was planning on attending tomorrow, feel free to reach out to them to insure they know about the cancellation.
We know you will share our disappointment at not being able to come together to share some holiday spirit. We will find a way to begin 2018 in a more festive way than we normally do.
Our January meeting will feature two speakers from the International Myeloma Foundation.
Our February meeting will feature Albert Garfall, MD, as our guest speaker. He will give us an update on the American Society for Hematology (ASH) 2017 conference, which was held in December in Atlanta. This presentation will be a good way to catch up on exciting new research on treatments for multiple myeloma. Dr.
Note: Due to some unforeseen problems, Donna Capozzi was unable to attend our March meeting. She has rescheduled for our upcoming April meeting.
Joseph Benci, PhD, MPH, spoke about an upcoming research project at Penn Medicine about survivorship care. Joseph's slides are available as an attachment below.
We held patient-caregiver split conversations for the second half of the meeting.
Due to some unforeseen problems, Donna Capozzi was unable to attend our March meeting. She has rescheduled for our upcoming April meeting.
At our May 12, 2018 PMMNG meeting, Jill Farabelli, MSW LCSW, w
At our June 9, 2018 PMMNG meeting, Nicole Rode will present a program on how to manage stress and anxiety with a cancer diagnosis. Nicole is a nurse educator for Janssen Pharmaceuticals. She has been a certified oncology nurse for over 20 years and is also a cancer survivor. Please join us for this program, which should be helpful to all of us!
Our July 2018 meeting will be held on Saturday July 1