Live Webinar

Improving Outcomes and Reducing Financial Hardship

Helping Cancer Survivors Thrive at Work

Wednesday, October 23, 1pm-2pm ET

Working-age adults are the fastest-growing population of cancer patients in the United States. For employers, this creates an ever-growing need to help their employees re-enter the workplace as healthy and productive contributors.

For those who return to work, 67% experience six or more symptoms or conditions caused by cancer and its treatment. Many face a mountain of medical debt that compounds their financial and emotional distress. 

Employers can play a critical role in this transition by helping employees access programs to improve their health and reduce their financial distress.

In this webinar with leading experts in the field, we’ll discuss evidence-based programs and policies that can support the broad adoption of cancer survivor care for employees, as well as payers and hospital systems.

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Panelists

Murray Aitken
Executive Director
IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science

Michael Halpern, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Health Policy
and Health Services Administration,
University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio

Jennifer Steel, PhD
Director, Quality of Life Program
University of Pittsburg Medical Center
Liver Cancer Center

Dr. John Librett, PhD, MPH
Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Survivor Healthcare

Moderator

Kim Wirthlin, MPA
President & COO
Huntsman Cancer Foundation

“It’s time to stop researching just whether financial hardship exists — we know it exists — and it’s time to really think about what interventions are possible to help individuals either prevent financial hardship or deal with it once it has occurred.”

— Michael Halpern, MD, PhD, MPH

  1. Managing the cancer–work interface: the effect of cancer survivorship on unemployment, Cancer Management Research, November, 2018.

  2. de Moor, J. S. (2010), Work and Cancer Survivors. Edited by Michael Feuerstein. Springer, New York, 2009. No. of pages: 350. ISBN 978-0-387-72040-1. Psycho-Oncology, 19: 332–333. doi: 10.1002/pon.1634

  3. Death or Debt? National Estimates of Financial Toxicity in Persons with Newly-Diagnosed Cancer, The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 131, Issue 10, October 2018

Who Should Attend?

  • C-suite executives, human resource, and benefits managers 

  • Insurance provider groups and third-party administrators

  • Hospital administrators with Commission on Cancer (CoC) credentialing responsibility

  • Medical officers with community hospitals and community oncology clinics

  • Health economists interested in real-world evidence economics for oncology care