ALS Headshot2020 copy croppedThe mission of the Moving Through Cancer (MTC) initiative is to assure that all people living with and beyond cancer are assessed, advised, referred to and engaged in appropriate exercise and rehabilitation programming as standard of care.
This initiative is housed under ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine (EIM) initiative. The MTC initiative is directed by the MTC Task Force, which is purposely multidisciplinary and international. This task force reports up through the EIM Governance Board and the ACSM Board of Trustees. Task Force members through 2022 include:
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Kathryn Schmitz, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACSM, FTOS
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine |
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Anna Campbell, Ph.D., M.B.E.
Edinburgh Napier University
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Jessica Gorzelitz, Ph.D., M.S.
Cancer Prevention Postdoctoral Fellow
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Mary A. Kennedy, Ph.D., ACSM-EP
Edith Cowan University |
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Jennifer Ligibel, M.D.
Director, Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living |
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Melissa Maitin-Shepard, M.P.P.
Founder and Principal, MMS Health Strategies, LLC
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Anna L. Schwartz, Ph.D. F.N.P.-B.C., F.A.A.N.
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Professor, College of Nursing, Omaha |
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Jonas M. Sokoloff, D.O.
New York University Langone Health |
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Kristen Sullivan, M.S., M.P.H.
Director, Nutrition and Physical Activity
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Christopher Wilson, DScPT, D.P.T., GCS Associate Professor |