Diet and exercise for cancer survivors.

Our speaker, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD, RD is Professor and Webb Endowed Chair of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and also is Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB. Her research ranges from determining mechanisms of nutrition-based therapies to developing, testing, and disseminating home-based interventions that improve diet, physical activity and functional status among populations at increased risk for cancer. To date, this research has been supported by 17 NIH grants and has resulted in over 350 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Demark-Wahnefried has been recognized as a Komen Professor of Survivorship and an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor. She has served on several committees, including the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academy of Sciences, and guidelines panels of the American Cancer Society, World Cancer Research Fund, American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Join us on Zoom on October 28th from 7-8pm for a workshop on what is helpful in terms of diet and exercise for cancer survivors. Zoom link below!