AOSW is happy to welcome a new member of our headquarters staff, Kate Monkus. Kate joined the AOSW in late June and is already diving into operations, membership and all things AOSW. Monkus has spent a lifetime working with non-profit organizations from community theater to international service clubs. During her career, Kate has held positions …
The sequencing of the human genome fundamentally shifted the ways we consider health and disease. These scientific advances led to the emergence of a new class of cancer patients: healthy individuals with identifiable genetic variants linked to increased lifetime cancer risk (called pathogenic variants or mutations) but without the certainty regarding the timing, severity and …
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By Jennifer Dunn, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C As we enter the third year of the pandemic and transition from the initial crisis phase to learning to ‘live with Covid,’ we reflect on the ethical implications and challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis and what they mean for the future of social work. In oncology, it is our …
By Briana Joyce, LCSW, OSW-C Over the last two years COVID-19 has upended nearly every aspect of our daily lives. One of the biggest changes is the explosion of the importance and prevalence of technology in the provision of oncology social work services. The need to practice social distancing has widened the conversation around electronically …
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