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The Cancer Support Community is pleased to invite you to join us on April 24 from 1-2 pm EST for the second session in a series called What’s In Your First Aid Kit? Resources and Tools to Help You Survive and Thrive.
In this presentation psychologist Jamie Aten introduces the new science of fortitude and how it can benefit healthcare professionals and patients alike. Jamie takes the audience through an inspiring personal quest to unlock the ancient secrets of this neglected virtue through recent scientific breakthroughs.
This is a non-credit education for personal enrichment.
Jamie Aten, Ph.D. is a disaster psychologist who doesn’t just study disasters—he’s lived disasters—as a Hurricane Katrina survivor and early-age onset stage IV colorectal cancer survivor (almost 7 years NED). He is Founder and Executive Director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute and Blanchard Chair of Humanitarian & Disaster Leadership at Wheaton College. He previously served as a Fight Colorectal Cancer Ambassador. His most recent book is A Walking Disaster: What Katrina and Cancer Taught Me About Faith and Resilience (Templeton Press). He is also a contributor to CURE Magazine’s Voices and blogs at Fight Colorectal Cancer’s Emotional First Aid and Psychology Today’s Hope + Resilience. In 2016 he received the FEMA Community Preparedness Champion Award at the White House. Follow on Twitter @drjamieaten or visit jamieaten.com.
As a 501c3 organization, the Cancer Support Community does not endorse, represent or warrant the accuracy or reliability of any of the information obtained from third party sources. This presentation is for informational purposes only.
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