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Emily Drake: From humble Facebook-friend-request to maintaining AYAC for over a decade
Sep 29, 2024, 09:21

Emily Drake: From humble Facebook-friend-request to maintaining AYAC for over a decade

Emily Drake shared on LinkedIn:

“From humble Facebook-friend-request beginnings to maintaining AYAC for over a decade, today I got to speak about using social media in oncology for professional development with colleagues Maryam Lustberg, Dr. Molly Berry and Dr. Krishna Soujanya Gunturu at the COSMO24 conference .”

Emily Drake

Teen Cancer America shared a post by Emily Drake, on LinkedIn, adding:

“Thank you Dr. Emily Drake for maintaining AYA. It’s our connector on social media to those in the AYAC space: Clinicians, Researchers, Patients, their loved ones, and the oh so important AYA Patient Advocacy Orgs.”

Source: Emily Drake/LinkedIn and Teen Cancer America/LinkedIn

More posts featuring Emily Drake on oncodaily.com

Emily Drake a cancer researcher, co-founder of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Societal Movement and adolescent & young adult cancer advocate. A social innovator, Emily co-founded Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Societal Movement  in 2013. This active, multi-disciplinary Twitter community, continues to grow and is changing the way stakeholders interact and share information regarding adolescents and young adults living with cancer on multiple social media channels.

Emily currently lives in Halifax where she runs her own consulting business  and is a PhD in Health candidate at Dalhousie University. She is a Killam Laureate, a Healthy Populations Institute scholar and a Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute Cancer Research Training Program trainee. Prior to this she was working with Hope & Cope at the Jewish General Hospital/McGill University as the Director of their young adult cancer support program, which offered in person and digital support services.