Parent Support Group Speaker - Ayelet Hirshfeld

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This April, the Kids & Art Parent Support Group welcomed Dr. Ayelet Hirschfeld, PhD, to speak about stress assessment and management. Dr. Hirschfeld is an expert in trauma and secondary stress, and specializes in infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Dr. Hirschfeld gave us suggestions for how to handle PTSD and post-traumatic stress symptoms. She reminded us that as parents of cancer survivors, we are worrying about something that has already happened. Reminding ourselves of this fact will help us gain perspective, and may ease symptoms.

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Lior Susan & Anil Sethi - Kids & Art Fireside Chat

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Lior Susan & Anil Sethi - Kids & Art Fireside Chat

At our 2019 Networking Fundraiser, Lior Susan, Founding Partner of Eclipse Ventures and Anil Sethi Founder & CEO, Ciitizen discuss how data can help the fight against cancer.

We thought that several interesting points were brought up and provided this edited transcript to expose their conversation to a wider audience.

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December 2019 Newsletter

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Warmest Greetings Kids & Art Friends,

We are filled with great pride and tremendous gratitude as we look back at the impact made in 2019. All of the ways that we supported pediatric oncology patients and families would not have been possible without your kindness and generosity. A loving thank you to all of our "amaeyzing" volunteers and staff who filled the weekly & monthly workshops with joy and creativity. Major gratitude to all of the places that hosted us for workshops, events and exhibitions. A truly heartfelt thank you to every individual, organization and grantor who gave to Kids & Art in support of our mission to bring healing through art.

Learn more about all that is happening in the Kids & Art world in our newsletter.

Walid Khiari & Marty Tenenbaum - Kids & Art Fireside Chat

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Walid Khiari & Marty Tenenbaum - Kids & Art Fireside Chat

At our 2019 Networking Fundraiser, Walid Khiari, Managing Director Rothschild & Co and Marty Tenenbaum, Co-Founder & Chairman, Cancer Common & XCure discussed how Cancer Common connects cancer researchers, doctors, patients, providers and pharma with the goal of tightly integrating clinical care and clinical research data..

We thought that several interesting points were brought up and provided this edited transcript to expose their conversation to a wider audience.

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Music Therapy with Premature Infants in the Intensive Care Nursery

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Music Therapy with Premature Infants in the Intensive Care Nursery

My name is Brianna Negrete and I’m a music therapist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. I have the privilege of working in the Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) and the Cardiac Units and I specialize in using music therapy with premature infants. With this fragile population, understandably, caregivers can be unsure or nervous on how to interact with their premature baby. This is where music therapy can step in.

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