Debra Jarvis is a general oncology chaplain at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and is ordained in the United Church of Christ. In spite of being a reverend, she takes joy in being irreverent and finding humor and balance in life. She is a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of It's Not About the Hair: And Other Certainties of Life and Cancer, coming out September 2007 from Sasquatch Books. A former hospice spiritual counselor, she has facilitated cancer retreats at Harmony Hill Retreat Center and is creator of "The Existential Expedition," a renewal program for medical staff. Since she is a breast cancer survivor, antioxidant donations in the form of dark chocolate are always welcome.  |
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Michael Lerner, PhD is president and founder of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in Bolinas , California . He is co-founder with Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, a week-long retreat for people with cancer featured by Bill Moyers in his award winning PBS series “Healing and the Mind.” Lerner is the author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer , (MIT Press), widely considered a seminal book in the field. He is also president and co-founder of Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts in Washington , D.C. , which offers the Cancer Help Program on the East Coast. Lerner is a member of the CEO Advisory Board of the American Cancer Society. He is also the co-founder of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, a national partnership of individuals and organizations committed to the prevention of cancer and other diseases.
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Local Panel
What Can Patients and Family Do to Enhance Health?
Kay Buitenveld, RN Moderator |
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Kay Buitenveld, RN, MBA, OCN, is director of Acute Care Services, including oncology care, for Harrison Medical Center and facilitates Kitsap County's breast cancer and I Can Cope support groups. She is a member of the Oncology Nursing Society and the Washington Organization of Nurse Executives.
Brian Kim, MD, FACP, is the medical oncologist for The Doctors Clinic in Bremerton and one of seven medical oncologists on Harrison's medical staff. He received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship in medical oncology at Atlanta's Emory University.
Kay Morgan, PhD, has been a private practice psychotherapist in Kitsap County for 20 years. She melds her varied experience as psychotherapist, writer and teacher into a dynamic adventure for the self. Kay is author of several published articles and essays, including articles for the nationally recognized PSYCHOLOGICAL NETWORKER. She has lectured extensively in Kitsap, Jefferson and King Counties. Dr. Morgan has taught at seminars and conferences at the University of Washington School of Social Work; Tacoma Community College; Olympic College; Snake River Institute (Jackson Hole, Wyoming); and Quartz Mountain, Oklahoma.
Cathy Rogers, ND is a naturopathic physician in practice for 28 years in Seattle and Bremerton, specializes in natural approaches to mental health and teaching patients to restore health through self care. In 2000 she created Chico Water Cure Spa, a healing day retreat on Puget Sound near Silverdale. She facilitates retreats for patients living with cancer and their caregivers at Harmony Hill Cancer Retreat Center in Union, WA. For six years she taught nutrition to women with breast cancer at the Breast Cancer Education and Support Group at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. She was a leader in the development of the naturopathic profession as Academic Dean at Bastyr University during its accreditation process in the 1980s and as Founding Director and 2nd President of the American Assosciation of Naturopathic Physicians. |
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| Sista Monica Parker, singer/songwriter, record producer and award-winning performer, is one of the most sought after and admired Blues, Soul and Gospel singers on the international music scene today. Sista Monica is a 2006 nominee for a W.C. Handy Award (the Grammy of the blues world) for “Best Soul Blues Female Artist Of The Year”. She put down her gospel roots singing and touring with gospel choirs in Chicago and Gary, Indiana. She exploded onto the music scene in 1992, singing festivals, concerts and producing original songs. In 2003, she was diagnosed with a rare and severe form of cancer, Synovial Sarcoma. Determined to sing and live out her purpose, she has survived aggressive chemotherapy, two major surgeries and high dosage radiation treatments. Sista Monica is a soul survivor. She contends “It was surely the music and the grace of God that kept me alive!” Her 7th and latest CD, "Can't Keep A Good Woman Down”, released in 2005, is certainly a testament to that. Mostly original songs, it offers hope and a reflection of her remarkable recovery experience. |
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Terri Tate, RN, MS -
Thriving through two bouts of oral cancer from which she had a 2% chance of survival has taught Terri Tate lots of lessons in overcoming obstacles with grace and humor. Now she offers us her wisdom, along with a hefty side order of laughs, in programs for health care providers like Wit and Wisdom from Both Sides of the Bed and in her wildly successful one woman show, Shopping as a Spiritual Path. Thanks to a grant from the Lloyd Symington Foundation, Terri is producing a DVD of Shopping as a Spiritual Path, two hundred of which will be distributed to agencies that reach under-served cancer patients. An inspirational humorist, keynote speaker and performer, Terri's believes that her life and her voice were spared so she can remind people to be gentle with themselves and to find something worth laughing about in every precious day.
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