Healing Works
The First National Conference on Lesbians and Cancer
Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, September 21, 2024

9:00-11:30

  Opening
Plenary
Welcome: Susan Hester, MA
Founder of the Mary-Helen Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer

Kathleen DeBold
Executive Director, Mary-Helen Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer

    Guest
Speakers:
Marilyn Gaston, MD
Assistant U.S. Surgeon General

Kate O'Hanlan, MD
Gynecological Oncology Surgeon

12:00-1:15

ROUND TABLES

  Lesbian Health Research
Judith Bradford, PhD
Director, Survey, Evaluation Research Laboratory

Scout, MA
Coordinator, Lesbian Health Research Institute

Suzanne Haynes, PhD

  Older Lesbian Health
Lisa Maatz
Public Policy Director
Older Women's League

  Politics of Cancer
Suzann Gage, LAc, RNC, NP
Lesbian Health Clinic

Barbara Brenner
Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action

  Cancer Survivors & Caregivers
TBA

  Organizing and Public Policy
National Breast Cancer Coalition
Human Rights Campaign

1:30-2:45

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

  Research & Education Biology of Cancer for Non-Scientists
Susan Troyan, MD
Ann Allworth

  Healthcare & Treatment Alternative Cancer Treatments
Suzann Gage, LAc, RNC, NP
Lesbian Health Clinic

  Organizing & Advocacy Lesbian Activists in the Breast Cancer and AIDS Movement
Ulrike Boehmer

  Living with Cancer Holding Tight, Letting Go. Living with Advanced Breast Cancer
Musa Mayer

  Mind, Body & Soul Herbal Therapy
TBA

3:15-4:30

  Research & Education Cancer: The Viral Connection
Kate O'Hanlan, MD
Angela Manns, MD

  Healthcare & Treatment Finding Reliable Healthcare and Treatment Information
Jana Allcock, MLS

  Organizing & Advocacy Risk Perception of Breast Cancer in the Baltimore Lesbian Community
Karen Kornkel, MD

  Living with Cancer God, Suffering & Cancer
Rev. J. Carlyle Gill

  Mind, Body & Soul Responding Artfully to Change
Judith Goldstein

4:45-6:00

  Research & Education What Me, Worry? Lesbians and Cervical Cancer
Kathleen Stein, RN

  Healthcare & Treatment Gender Identity as a Barrier to Healthcare and Treatment
Scout, MA
Jessica Xavier
Regina Shavers

  Organizing & Advocacy Developing Effective Health Communication Messages to Inform Lesbians about Cancer Risks
Sylvia Fischer

Outreach for Breast Health to the Lesbian Community
Ellen Levine, LCSW

  Living with Cancer Legal Issues for Lesbians With Cancer
Michelle Zavos, Esq.

  Mind, Body & Soul Yoga
Sally Laux
Katherine Sears

Friday, September 22, 2024

8:30-9:45

  Research & Education Ovarian Cancer Awareness
Nicole Boyd

  Healthcare & Treatment Emotional Transformation Therapy in Cancer Treatment
Becky Carroll, PhD

  Organizing & Advocacy Two Heads, Many Hearts
Carol Brownlow, Ed.D

Planting and Tending the Garden: More than the Grass Roots
Deborah Bell

Private and Public Collaborations
Andrea Densham

  Living with Cancer Breast Cancer from Both Sides of the Bed: Working and Living with Cancer
Alice Chang, PhD

  Mind, Body & Soul Massage
Dawn Krusemark
Lucia Mercer
Stephanie Karpinski

10:15-11:30

  Research & Education The Genetics of Cancer
June Peters
Amy Allina

  Healthcare & Treatment Treatment Update: New Cancer Drugs & Devices
Marsha S. Holloman, JD, PhD

  Organizing & Advocacy Tobacco Control and the Media
Allyson Herring
Cynthia R. Griffin, MA, MEd

  Living with Cancer Healing Cancer, Healing Our Lives
Ellyn Kaschak, PhD

  Mind, Body & Soul Message
Dawn Krusemark
Lucia Mercer
Stephanie Karpinski

12:00-1:30

  Luncheon Plenary Susan Love, MD

1:30-2:45

  Research & Education Understanding Treatment Options
Fred Lombardo, PharmD, MS, RPh, BCPS, BCNSP, BCOP Susan Troyan, MD

  Healthcare & Treatment Replication of the Removing the Barriers to Providing Competent Healthcare to Lesbians
Kevin Brady, PhD
Cheryl B. Fields, MPH
Sabrina Sojourner

  Organizing & Advocacy Building Bridges: Outreach to the Latina Lesbian Community
Catalina Ramos
Juanita Crespo

  Living with Cancer Administrative Side of Support Groups
Liz Coolidge
Denise Bentley
Darlene deManincor

  Mind, Body & Soul Recovercises
Naomi Aaronson

3:15-4:30

  Research & Education Lesbians with Breast Cancer Panel Discussion
D. Powers
Dr. A. Mathews
Suzann Dibble, RN
Stacey Hart, PhD

  Healthcare & Treatment Removing the Barriers (Continued)
Judy Bradford, PhD
Andrea Densham
Sarah Reynolds
Allena Gabousch

  Organizing & Advocacy Building Bridges: Outreach to the Latina Lesbian Community
Catalina Ramos
Juanita Crespo

  Living with Cancer Clinical Issues in Support Groups for Lesbians
Liz Coolidge
Trish Cleary
Deborah Marks

  Mind, Body & Soul Zen Meditation
June Peters

Saturday, September 23, 2024

10:00-11:15

  Research & Education African American Lesbian Cancer Issues
Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD
D. Magrini

  Healthcare & Treatment Lesbian Adolescents: Challenges for Health Care Treatment
Caitlin Ryan, MSW, ACSW

  Organizing & Advocacy Smoking Cessation in the Lesbian Community
Brent Saunders, American Cancer Society

  Living with Cancer Everyday Healing
Rev. Ann L. Hallstein

11:15-12:00

  Closing Plenary Byllye Avery
Founder, National Black Women's Health Project