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SUPPORT GROUP » with Julia Rowland, Ph.D. This GROUP, led by a
licensed psychologist, is designed to provide cancer CAREGIVERS WITH
THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET OTHER CAREGIVERS, learn about useful tools for
self-care, and explore ways to thrive in the caregiving role. Please
RSVP to us by registering through link above or by calling (202)
483-8600 prior to your first visit. Our CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP MEETS
BI-monthly on Mondays from 6:00pm – 7:30pm. About Julia Rowland, PhD
Julia Rowland, PhD, who joined Smith Center in October 2017, comes to
this position as a long-time clinician, researcher and teacher in the
area of psychosocial aspects of cancer. She has worked with and
conducted competitively funded research among both pediatric and adult
cancer survivors and their families, and published broadly in
psycho-oncology, including co-editing, along with Dr. Jimmie Holland,
the ground-breaking text, Handbook of Psychooncology. She has also
been a frequent speaker on cancer survivorship, or life after cancer,
for both professional and lay audiences. Julia received her PhD in
Developmental Psychology from Columbia University and completed a
post-doctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in
psychosocial oncology. While at MSKCC, where she held joint
appointments in pediatrics and neurology, Julia helped to develop and
was the first Director of the Post-Treatment Resource Program, one of
the first non-medical survivorship care programs to be offered by a
major cancer center in the U.S. In 1990 she moved with her husband and
two young children to WASHINGTON, DC to become founding Director of
the Psycho-Oncology Program at Georgetown University and the Lombardi
Cancer Center. There she helped expand services to meet the
psychosocial needs of cancer patients and families, launched some of
the first quality of life clinical trials, and also introduced a
program to enable first year medical students to learn the art of
caring for those living through and beyond cancer from survivors
themselves and Lombardi faculty. Nine years later, in September of
1999, she was recruited to the National Cancer Institute to become the
first, full-time Director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship, a
position in which she served for 18 years, championing the growth of
survivorship research and care, before stepping down in September 2017
to assume her new role at Smith Center. Although new to the team,
Julia is no stranger to Smith Center. She knew Smith Center’s
founder, Barbara Smith Coleman, and has volunteered her expertise
across the years as a speaker, GROUP LEADER AND STAFF MEMBER FOR BOTH
THE 1-day and weeklong residential retreats. Julia brings to her new
role a passion to translate what research has taught us about healing
in the context of cancer to the broader community, in essence, taking
the science of survivorship from the lab bench to the park bench. +
Google Calendar + iCal Export Details Date: February 24 Time: 6:00 pm
- 7:30 pm Event Category: Cancer SUPPORT IN WASHINGTON, DC Event Tags:
Cancer Community , Cancer SUPPORT , CAREGIVERS , Family SUPPORT ,
Healing , SUPPORT GROUP Venue SMITH CENTER FOR HEALING AND THE ARTS
1632 U Street, NW WASHINGTON , DC 20009 UNITED STATES + Google Map
Phone: 202.483.8600 Website: http://www.smithcenter.org
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