👏 stop 👏 glorifying 👏 overwork 👏 in 👏 academia. ‘I marked 500 essays, wrote 16 chapters, taught 26 classes, slept less than 3 hours a night & destroyed all my significant relationships’ IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF. Thnx from your (very tired) friendly neighbourhood ECR.

Hey, this handbook of Mindfulness-based programs my group contributed a chapter to is finally coming out - it is a 700 page behemoth! Order your advance copies here! amazon.com/Handbook-Mindf…

We are looking for women treated for breast cancer recommended hormonal therapies who have chosen not to take them as prescribed. This is a PhD project at UCalgaryMedicine by my student Dr. Kirsti Toivonen. See below for details and pass it along! Rethink Breast Cancer @cancerkn YACC

The Chemo-Gut Study is recruiting! We’re looking for young adult cancer patients in the #Calgary area currently receiving chemotherapy to help us learn how chemo affects the #gutmicrobiome - Get in touch to take part in this exciting research! Dr. Linda E. Carlson UCalgaryMedicine

Have you seen this fabulous issue of The Cancer Journal on #IntegrativeOncology? It's so good (if I do say so myself, given that my team wrote one of the review papers)! Great job editing by Jun J. Mao. Papers by many Society for Integrative Oncology members! Gary Deng journals.lww.com/journalppo/toc…

Agreed, one of the best conferences I've ever been to! Highly recommend the summer school as well!!

In response to the #UofC’s statement condemning anti-Black racism and racism in all forms, this open letter is a call to translate words into action. Consider reading and signing this letter in support of systemic change. Please RT and share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Fascinating study about how chemo affects gut health (by the powerhouse Dr. Julie Deleemans) - please consider participating if you can or RT to spread the word!

Woot woot! So happy to finally publish this work on barriers to participation in #MindfulnessBasedInterventions for cancer survivors. Thanks Dr. Kirsti Toivonen for taking it on and making it happen. Hope this will provide helpful advice for others! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Reposting with the link for this new CCTG study surveying cancer survivors about their experiences during COVID! Any Canadian cancer survivor can participate. Have your say and please pass it on! covid19livingwithcancer.ca Cancer Chat Canada Dr. Vicky Forster CanCOVID Survivor Network CA

Canadian dilemma: how do you physically distance and hold the door open for someone?

Thanks Jennifer M. Jones! I will send this out to all my fabulous female trainees/mentees past and present! Dr. Sheila Garland Dr. Katie Birnie Jill Johnson Dr. Kirsti Toivonen Dr. Michelle Flynn Michaela Patton (she/her) Dr. Julie Deleemans Katherine-Ann L. Piedalue Catharine Bowman Dr. Chelsea Moran, C.Psych Danielle Petricone-Westwood Amanda

🚨Do you know a child in Ontario between 8-12 years who is very #afraid of #needles? The Centre for Psychological Services Psychology UoG C. Meghan McMurtry is offering a virtual group for kids & their caregivers to help with 💉 fear! See poster👇🏼for details & register by June 22nd!

Stoked this excellent #qualitative paper from Dr. Kirsti Toivonen's PhD dissertation on #barriers to #HormonalTherapy in #breastcancer is published. Great insights from women who persisted, those who discontinued and healthcare providers. Free fulltext here: mdpi.com/1718-7729/28/4…

Thank you so much Linda!! Feels so good to be done! The culmination of many years and it passed in the blink of an eye!

What came in the mail today, a lovely surprise from Dr. Linda E. Carlson ! Can't wait to put it on my desk!

Congrats to Dr. Kirsti Toivonen as the final paper from her PhD dissertation is now published #openAccess (and she's already started her new job)! Get full text free here: dovepress.com/articles.php?a…

So honoured to receive the inaugural Alberta Oncology Research Excellence Award. Although our research is well-known in #PsychoOncology, #IntegrativeOncology, #BehavioralMedicine and #Mindfulness circles, we don't always get recognition in our own back yard. Thank you! #ACRC2021

My brilliant friend Dr. Julie Deleemans became Dr. Deleemans yesterday!!