Science in Motion: How Activity, Nutrition & Lifestyle Impact Cancer Outcomes
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Cancer care is evolving—and lifestyle matters. In this fireside chat with Dr. Jessica Scott of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discover how physical activity, nutrition, and daily habits are playing a transformative role in cancer survival and resilience. A must-attend for employers focused on whole-person health.
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Featured Speaker
Jessica Scott, PhD
Jessica Scott, PhD, is an Associate Member in the Exercise Oncology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center in New York. She received her PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she studied the effects of endurance exercise training on cardiac function. She completed her Post-doctoral Fellowship at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas and then spent 5 years as a Senior Scientist in the Exercise Physiology and Countermeasures Laboratory at JSC investigating how to optimize exercise training for astronauts on long duration spaceflight.
Since joining MSK, her research has focused on characterizing cancer therapy-related side effects and studying lifestyle modifications such as exercise training to prevent and reverse cancer side effects. She is the recipient of NASA’s Human Research Program Peer Award, NASA’s Innovation Achievement Award for the design and implementation of an ultrasound technique to measure muscle size during spaceflight, and NASA’s Group Achievement Award as a member of the One Year Mission Operations Team. She is the Co-Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space.
With
Dr. Mark Cunningham-Hill
Dr. Cunningham-Hill is an employee health expert known for his ability to create, identify and implement high-quality workplace health programs including prevention and screening, chronic illness interventions, and mental health and wellbeing initiatives. His broad occupational medicine and public health experience encompasses addressing chronic diseases impacting employers, employees and communities within the context of social, cultural and racial determinants of health.
Mark has served as the Medical Director for Northeast Business Group on Health since early 2018. Until 2017, he served as Senior Director, Global Solutions Center and Head of Occupational Medicine at Johnson & Johnson, Inc . At J&J, Mark led a team of experts covering occupational medicine, health and wellness, personal energy management, EAP and mental wellbeing, and work-life effectiveness, and supported regional operational groups delivering health services to 135,000 employees in 120 companies. Prior to seven years at J&J, Mark spent 17 years at GlaxoSmithKline in both London and Philadelphia, including as Head of Global Operations, Employee Health Management.
Mark received his MB ChB, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Manchester University in the UK. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, London.