Coping with Blood Cancer Uncertainty: Practical Tools to Manage Stress and Anxiety image

Coping with Blood Cancer Uncertainty: Practical Tools to Manage Stress and Anxiety

Jun 25, 2025
12:30PM - 01:30PM EDT
Online Event
Overview

Feeling anxious after a blood cancer diagnosis is completely normal, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Whether you're living with leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, an MPN, or another blood cancer, this webinar is here to support you.

Join cancer psychologist Dr. Kelly McConnell as she shares simple, effective strategies to manage anxiety, reduce stress, and boost emotional resilience. This session will offer practical tools to help you feel more in control throughout the challenges of diagnosis, treatment, and beyond.

Agenda
12:30 PM
Introduction
Hannah Loosle

Hannah introduces the agenda and our featured speaker Kelly McConnell, PhD

12:35 PM
Presentation
Kelly McConnell

Dr. McConnell shares practical techniques to manage anxiety.

1:05 PM
Questions and Answers
Audience

Come with your questions and we will answer them! 

Speakers & Moderators
Healthtree contact Hannah Loosle

Hannah Loosle

Hannah joined HealthTree Foundation as the Lymphoma Education Manager in 2024. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist and is passionate about helping patients feel empowered through education and connection. Before joining HealthTree, Hannah worked in healthcare policy helping patients advocate for better care, research, and funding. Hannah enjoys baking and going to concerts in her free time.
Healthtree contact Kelly McConnell

Kelly McConnell

Dr. Kelly McConnell is an Associate Attending Psychologist and co-Director of the Psycho-oncology of Aging and Cancer research laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  She has a PhD in clinical psychology and completed fellowship training in geriatric psychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System and psychosocial oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  Her research examines the nature and predictors of distress in older adult patients with cancer and their caregivers and care received at the end-of-life.  She also examines the efficacy and implementation of interventions to reduce distress and increase rates of advance care planning in patients and caregivers. She has received National Institutes of Health, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and foundation funding for this research.