Join Sharsheret as Joanna Fawzy Doran of Triage Cancer leads an informative discussion on the rights and resources available to those caring for a loved one with cancer.
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November 17th, 8:00 PM ET/5:00PM PT
Join Sharsheret as Joanna Fawzy Doran of Triage Cancer leads an informative discussion on the rights and resources available to those caring for a loved one with cancer. We’ll explore key legal protections for caregivers as well as practical tools to help manage the challenges of caregiving. Whether you’re currently supporting someone through cancer or want to better understand how to advocate for caregivers, this webinar will provide clear guidance, useful resources, and actionable next steps.
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Joanna is a cancer rights attorney, author, speaker, and CEO of Triage Cancer, a national, nonprofit organization providing free education on practical and legal issues that may impact individuals coping with cancer and their caregivers, through events, materials, and resources.
Joanna has spent more than thirty years working on behalf of individuals with cancer, including five as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, teaching a seminar in Cancer Rights Law, and eight at the John Wayne Cancer Institute’s Psychosocial Care Program and Positive Appearance Center. She has also taught a Community Advocacy Clinic, as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School.
Joanna co-authored the book, Cancer Rights Law, for the American Bar Association – the first and only book of its kind. The second edition of Cancer Rights Law was released in 2025. In 2020, she wrote a chapter Cancer-Related Legal Issues, for the Oncology Nursing Society’s book, Oncology Nurse Navigation: Delivering Patient-Centered Care Across the Continuum. In 2017, she wrote Preventing or Minimizing Financial Toxicity Across the Continuum of Cancer Care, a chapter for the Oncology Nursing Society’s book, Cancer Survivorship: Transdisciplinary, Patient-Centered Approaches to the Season of Survival. In 2009, she also contributed to a book entitled, Work and Cancer Survivors. And, her work has appeared in a variety of other publications, such as Psycho-Oncology, Heal, CURE, and Coping with Cancer.
Joanna earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations from the University of California Los Angeles and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School Los Angeles. She has also received the American Cancer Society Leadership in Oncology Navigation (ACS LION) Certificate and the ACS LION Clinical Trials Navigation Certificate.
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