nbmtLINK Lunch & Learn: GVHD and Steroids – Let’s Explore the Love/Hate and Other Options

Jul 13, 2021Partners

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EVENT DATE & TIME: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 – Noon to 1 pm EST

This month’s FREE telephone educational and support program will focus on the love/hate of steroid use as it relates to chronic GVHD. Dr. Masumi Ueda Oshima, Assistant Professor and Assistant Medical Director for the Inpatient Adult BMT Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/University of Washington will break it down for us and share her expertise. Sharde Fultz, a cGVHD patient will share her personal experience including details about how she has managed steroid use and GVHD. The nbmtLINK’s licensed staff social worker, Jennifer Gillette, will facilitate the program. There will also be plenty of time for live questions.

If you have any technical issues related to registering, please contact peggyburkhard@nbmtlink.org or call (248) 770-5172. The call-in information is contained in the form you use to register. Note: YOU call in to participate. (We do not call you.)

Lunch & Learn with the LINK – A Telephone Support Program for Patients, Families/Caregivers/Loved Ones

This FREE program is intended to provide psychosocial and emotional support along with health information from national experts regarding critical topics surrounding cancer and treatments. This program is recorded and available on our website one week after airing live. www.nbmtlink.org

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Incyte Corporation
Pharmacyclics & Janssen
Omeros Corporation

– Peggy Burkhard
Executive Director
nbmtLINK
Note our NEW ADDRESS: 2900 Union Lake Rd. Suite 213, Commerce, MI 48382
(248) 770-5172 cell, (248) 358-1889 fax, toll free (800) LINK-BMT

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