Moving Through Cancer Task Force

The 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:

Moving Through Cancer Task Force

	Kathryn Schmitz, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACSM, FTOS Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Associate Director, Population Sciences Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Expert Panel Member, YMCA/Livestrong Foundation Cancer Survivorship Collaborative Past President, American College of Sports Medicine
	Anna Campbell, Ph.D., M.B.E. Edinburgh Napier University Associate Professor, School of Applied Sciences Consultant, Macmillan Cancer Care
	Jessica Gorzelitz, Ph.D., M.S. Cancer Prevention Postdoctoral Fellow Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics National Cancer Institute
	Chloe Grimmett, Ph.D., MSc hons University of Southampton School of Health Sciences Senior Research Fellow – Behavioral Scientist
	Mary A. Kennedy, Ph.D., ACSM-EP Edith Cowan University Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Jennifer Ligibel, M.D. Director, Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living Director, Center for Faculty Well-Being Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
	Melissa Maitin-Shepard, M.P.P. Founder and Principal, MMS Health Strategies, LLC Public Policy Consultant, American Institute for Cancer Research
	Anna L. Schwartz, Ph.D. F.N.P.-B.C., F.A.A.N. Northern Arizona University Associate Professor, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services Co-Director, Research Core for the Center for American Indian Resilience Board Member, American Cancer Society: Nutrition and Physical Activity
	Jonas M. Sokoloff, D.O. New York University Langone Health Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Director, Oncological Rehabilitation
	Nicole L. Stout, D.P.T, CLT-LANA, FAPTA Western Virginia University Research Assistant Professor, School of Medicine WVU Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention and Control Co-Chair, WHO Technical Working Group on Cancer Rehabiliation Guidelines Chair, American Board of Physical Therapy: Oncology Specialty Council
	Kristen Sullivan, M.S., M.P.H. Director, Nutrition and Physical Activity Population Science Department American Cancer Society

Moving Through Cancer Task Force

Moving Through Cancer Task Force

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