CHI Memorial To Host "Cancer Care, Today" Conference

  • Friday, February 27, 2015

CHI Memorial will host “Cancer Care, Today” to help educate the community about treatment advances, forward-thinking nutrition and emotional support, and access to specialists at CHI Memorial’s Rees Skillern Cancer Institute. Question and answer sessions will be open after each presentation. A light breakfast is provided. “Cancer Care, Today” is free for all attendees.

The event will take place this Saturday, from 8 a.m.

– 12:30 p.m. at The Chattanoogan Hotel
1201 Broad Street, and will offer the following sessions:

Keynote Speaker -
Mark Kelley, M.D., surgical oncologist, Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“New Trends In Cancer Therapy using Melanoma as a model”

Sanford Sharp, M.D., pathologist
“Facing Forward ; Living Well.”

Benjamin Nadeau, M.D., medical oncology
“New Chemotherapy Options”

John Fortney, M.D., radiation oncology
“Demystifying Radiation Therapy and Embracing the Future”

Mark Brzezienski, M.D., plastic reconstructive surgeon
“Reconstructive Surgery”

Rhonda Edwards, licensed clinical social worker
“Living Well Through Cancer and Beyond”

Robin Darling, clinical oncology dietitian
“What Color is Your Plate”

For information and reservations, call the Rees Skillern Cancer Institute at 495-2258.

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