The Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital and the Gustav Levinschi Foundation

Scientific Program

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Time Sessions and speakers
7:00 - 8:00 REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST
08:00 WELCOME
08:15 - 09:00 CANCER SURVIVORSHIP AND THE ROLE OF REHABILITATION IN CANCER CARE
Moderator: Margaret Eades, RN, CON-C
09:00 - 9:45 PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT IN CANCER CARE
Dr. Borod, MD, MPH, MBA
09:45 - 10:15 CANCER NUTRITION REHABILITATION PROGRAM
Dr. Jagoe, MD, PhD
10:15 - 10:45 NETWORKING BREAK / POSTER VIEWING
10:45 - 11:15 PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CANCER
Jocelyne Filion, Clinical psychologist
11:15 - 11:45 ETHICS AND ONCOLOGY REHABILITATION
Matthew Hunt, PT, PhD (candidate)
11:45 - 12:00 THERAPEUTIC USE OF LAUGTHER
Isabella Bitetto, TRS, CLL
12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH / POSTER VIEWING
01:30 - 02:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS - BLOC 1
  1. Insightful Perspectives of a Cancer Survivor
  2. Exercise, Fatigue and Cancer
02:15 - 03:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS - BLOC 2
  1. Oncology Rehabilitation - Reality at the JRH
  2. Role of the Occupational Therapist in the Cancer Rehabilitation Team. Tele-medicine Follow-up in Oncology: A Possibility?
03:00 - 03:15 NETWORKING BREAK
02:15 - 03:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS - BLOC 3
  1. Oncology Rehabilitation - Reality at the JRH
  2. Physical Performance Measures: What Have They Taugh Us... and What Have we learned?
04:00 - 04:15 CLOSING AND RAFLE