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About this Webinar: Many cancer patients will become immunocompromised at some point during their cancer experience. Learn about the health implications of having a weakened immune system, what it means to patients, survivors, caregivers, and tips to protect your respiratory health.
About the Presenters:
Michelle Burleigh is the co-chair of the Canadian Immunocompromised Advocacy Network (CIAN) and founder of the global support community Immunocompromised People Are Not Expendable (IPANE). Michelle spent nearly 25 years in the financial industry before surviving a late-stage diagnosis of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia in 2017. That experience led her to dedicate her life to healthcare advocacy and apply her business background to improving patient care.
Dr. Jia Hu is a public health physician and family doctor and leads immunization programs and vaccine preventable disease services at the BC Centre for Disease Control. He previously helped co-chair CIAN and co-founded Praxus Health.
Dr. Luis Murguía-Favela is a Pediatric Clinical Immunologist at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Calgary. His clinical practice and research is focused on inborn errors of immunity and immune dysregulation disorders. He is an associate member of the Snyder Institute of Chronic Diseases and its Immunology Research Group as well as the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Murguía-Favela is the Chair of the Clinical Immunology Network-Canada and is the Principal Investigator and co-Investigator in a number of national and international research studies on inborn errors of immunity.