Jad M. Abdelsattar, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, and Breast Surgical Oncologist at Banner Health, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I had the privilege of convening a deliberate multidisciplinary discussion on Exercise Oncology-NOT as supportive care, but as an emerging “standard of care” cancer therapy.
It was an exceptional conversation due to the depth, diversity and intentionality of expertise at the virtual table:
- Jay Harness, MD – Retired Breast Surgeon extraordinaire and national thought leader. Jay was the glue that offered a critical historical and cultural perspective on how oncology evolves and why exercise oncology has reached a true inflection point.
- Ash Walker, DHSc, MA, FAACVPR, FCEPA – Assistant Professor of Exercise and Sport Science in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of North Carolina and Past President of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). Ash brought invaluable insight into implementation, reimbursement, and what oncology can learn directly from the cardiac rehabilitation model.
- Christopher Fitzmaurice MS, CEP, CSCS, CET – Clinical Exercise Physiologist at the University of Miami Health System. Critical to our mission, he framed discussion around translating evidence into real world, oncology specific exercise prescription and highlighted details of dosing, frequency and timing across the cancer continuum.
- Richard Simpson, PhD – Professor of Exercise Physiology and Immunology at The University of Arizona and an internationally recognized leader in exercise immunology and cancer biology. He is frequently cited in both exercise oncology and immunotherapy literature. Put simply, Richard’s work provided the mechanistic backbone and biologic plausibility to show the “how and why” exercise oncology should be discussed with the same scientific rigor as systemic cancer therapies.
- Emmanuel Katsanis, MD – Professor of Pediatrics and Immunobiology at the University of Arizona. Impressive member of the University of Arizona Cancer Center, Steele Children’s Research Center, and the elite “BIO5 Institute”. With an impressive +27 years of research experience in tumor and transplant immunology, Emmanuel highlighted the bridge between immunology, oncology, and translational science and helped us contextualize exercise as host-directed therapy that “complements” modern cancer treatments.
- Leslie J. Waltke, PT, DPT – Impressive Founder of the Waltke Cancer Rehabilitation Academy and currently working in cancer rehabilitation coordination at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She joined and showed us without doubt that functional recovery, survivorship, and the rehab–exercise continuum remain central to how we design scalable, patient centered care.
“Inbox me if you are interested in collaboration”.
I’m grateful for this group as Breast Surgical Oncologist & scholar focused on translational science to move exercise oncology from evidence to “expectation.”
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