The Hirshberg Foundation is happy to announce Barbara Demman will join us at the 19th Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer to show how Mindfulness can empower pancreatic cancer patients.
Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which we focus on awareness in the present moment. Practicing mindfulness involves breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to relax the body and mind. Mindfulness offers additional support to people with pancreatic cancer and their caregivers by reducing stress, anxiety, and depression while also increasing positive emotions and enjoyment of daily life. In this segment, we will participate in a group activity of a guided mindfulness meditation.
Barbara Demman is a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist. She currently serves as a hospice nurse practitioner and lecturer at UCLA School of Nursing.
Barbara completed a yearlong fellowship at the UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center. Her current research, supported by the Hirshberg Foundation, examines mindfulness-based interventions and decreasing symptom burden among patients with pancreatic cancer, as well as fostering connection and intimacy between cancer patients and their primary caregivers.
Barbara also has a passion for working with patients and families throughout the entire dying process in her hospice nurse practitioner role. She advocates for those who are dying and facilitating patient and family wishes and care preferences at the end of life.
An important tool for our pancreatic cancer community, we are so pleased to have Barbara Demman present Empowering Pancreatic Cancer Patients with Mindfulness at the 19th Annual Symposium.