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Research and Innovation Breakfast Focuses on Better Palliative Care in Minnesota
November 10, 2016
More than 100 lawmakers, medical professionals, researchers, patients, and volunteers attended ACS CAN Minnesota's Research and Innovation Breakfast to learn how ACS CAN and other groups will be working to improve palliative care in Minnesota during the 2017 state legislative session.
"Here in Minnesota, ACS CAN is collaborating with allies across the state to establish an advisory committee on palliative care to guide state lawmakers in developing better policies to help patients, families, and survivors deal with the side effects and consequences of major illness," said Stacy Steinhagen, KEYC News 12 anchor and event host.
Speakers at the November 10 breakfast included (in order of appearance):
Karen Kuntz, Sc.D., co-leader of the Masonic Cancer Center's Screening, Prevention, Etiology - Cancer Survivorship Program
Kris Bernier, two-time cancer survivor and chair of Delta Airline's Cancer Support Employee Network
Eric Anderson, M.D., Allina Palliative Medicine, United Hospital
Anne Blaes, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, M.D., Deputy Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society
State Senator Sandy Pappas
Lauren Gilchrist, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Governor Mark Dayton - Lt. Governor Tina Smith