Dear Friends,
I hope this issue of the BCCQ finds you well. Spring has been eventful, insightful, inspiring, and also sad.
We honor the life of Lisa Bonchek Adams, a smart, eloquent blogger who was committed to evidence-based medicine and sharing aspects of breast cancer that remain hidden beneath fundraising campaigns and awareness events. It was an honor to share airtime with her a few years ago on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, still the only station to devote substantial broadcasting time to the pink ribbon industry. We send love and peace to Lisa’s family and friends.
In early March, I attended the 2015 Lown Institute Conference, Road to RightCare: Engage, Organize, Transform. It was an opportunity to meet inspiring and engaged clinicians, patient advocates, and community leaders to discuss the deeply embedded causes and consequences of medical misuse and innovative ways to address them. Learn more about the Lown Institute here.
It was wonderful to give talks on “#ReThinkPink: A New Wave of Breast Cancer Advocacy” in person at Vanderbilt University and via videocoference at the University at Albany (SUNY). It’s heartening to get a message like this after one of these events: “Students not only learned a great deal from your classroom visit and your public lecture, but you stoked their enthusiasm!” Thank you, Vandy and SUNY.
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Call for Contributors. The 2015 Special Issue of the BCC Quarterly, “By Your Side: Being a Caregiver for Someone with Breast Cancer” will share the voices of those who have seen their own lives change after someone they care about has been diagnosed with breast cancer. If you would like to submit your story for consideration, please send a brief summary (< 250 words) to special issue editors Grazia De Michele and Cinzia Greco at byyoursidebcc@gmail.com by August 31, 2015. You may also submit a photo story or video. [We currently accommodate French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.]
Join over 400 scientists, clinicians, policy makers and consumer advocates at the 2015 Preventing Overdiagnosis conference in Bethesda, Maryland USA September 1st-3rd. It is committed to winding back the harms of too much medicine.
Silent Spring Institute is hiring at all levels – experienced PhD, postdoctoral fellow, masters level, or research assistant—for projects involving environmental health and community-engaged research, and to integrate social science and communications with environmental science and health research.
Many thanks to Grazia De Michele for being BCC’s social media contact. Find BCC on facebook or twitter.
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Thank you for reading, and for your continued support in changing the breast cancer paradigm.
Sincerely,
Gayle A. Sulik, PhD (Founder and Principal Investigator)
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