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TWU’s Lipoma serves as delegate at the Lance Armstrong
Foundation’s LIVESTRONG Summit
10/27/06
DENTON —
Joanna Lipoma, clinical instructor for the Texas Woman’s
University School of Occupational Therapy, will serve as a
delegate at the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s LIVESTRONG
Summit in Austin Oct. 27 - 29.
“I applied
to be a delegate because of my multifaceted perspective,”
Ms. Lipoma said. “As a cancer survivor, a caregiver
to my parents who both had nonHodgkins lymphoma at the same
time, an occupational therapist who practices in oncology
and the bone marrow transplant unit at Baylor University Medical
Center and as a clinical instructor at TWU, I wanted to lend
my perspective and gain knowledge at the conference.”
Ms. Lipoma presented
with fellow occupational therapists from M.D. Anderson and
UT-Pan Am at the American Occupational Therapy Association
(AOTA) national conference in April 2006 on “Rehabilitation
of the Cancer Patient: Understanding the Therapist's Role.”
She also will co-present "Cancer Survivorship: Facilitating
the Therapeutic Process” with Tina Fletcher, a TWU occupational
therapy faculty member and bone marrow transplant survivor,
at the 2007 AOTA conference.
Through the LIVESTRONG
Summit, the Lance Armstrong Foundation will lead a survivorship
movement to broaden awareness and impact the unmet physical,
emotional and practical needs of people living with cancer.
An estimated 800 to 1,000 Summit delegates will identify needs,
set goals and develop action plans to change the face of cancer
survivorship in their own communities and nationwide.
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For Further
Information Contact:
Amanda McKeen Simpson
Director of News and Information
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: asimpson1@twu.edu |
