The Hirshberg Foundation is pleased to announce that Annette Stanton, PhD, will be joining us as the moderator for the panel discussion at the 19th Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer.
Each year, we are honored to share the stories of pancreatic cancer patients and their caregivers. These honest and personal discussions provide valuable perspective, insight, and empathy for the journeys faced by both patients and their loved ones after a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Once again, Dr. Stanton will join us as our panel moderator to facilitate a meaningful discussion featuring two patients and two caregivers impacted by pancreatic cancer. Attendees will have the honor of hearing personal stories, perspectives, and insights from survivors. They will answer questions about how they navigated their diagnosis, what they wished they knew then, and what they want you to know now.
Annette Stanton is Distinguished Professor and former Chair (2019-2024) in the Department of Psychology at UCLA and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. An author of more than 250 publications and a licensed clinical psychologist, she identifies factors that promote or impede well-being and health in adults diagnosed with cancers of the breast, eye, lung, and pancreas. She then as well as tests associated psychosocial interventions to promote living well with cancer. tShe then translates her findings into action by developing and testing approaches to enhance well-being and health over the course of the cancer trajectory. Dr. Stanton has served as President of the Society for Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Her research has been recognized by awards from that society, the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Cancer Special Interest Group, and the Cancer Support Community Los Angeles. Distinguished Professor Stanton also has been honored through a number of awards for undergraduate and graduate teaching and mentoring. Support for Dr. Stanton’s research has included the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the National Cancer Institute/NIH, the California Breast Cancer Research Program, and the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.
We are eager to have Annette Stanton, PhD joining us to moderate the Panel Discussion: Perspectives from Survivors and Caregivers at the 19th Annual Symposium.