Survivors Teaching Students Program to Speak on Ovarian Cancer

Survivors Teaching Students, a program of the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, will speak to U of A students via Zoom at 5 p.m., Tuesday, April 19.

Survivors Teaching Students brings ovarian cancer survivors and caregivers into medical education programs to educate future healthcare providers about ovarian cancer by sharing stories of diagnosis, treatment and survivorship, along with facts about the disease. Medical/healthcare students interact with and learn from ovarian cancer survivors in a classroom-like setting.

The program is co-sponsored by the U of A Medical Humanities Program and Medical Humanities RSO, the Gender Studies Program, Alpha Epsilon Delta and the Biology Club.

Survivors Teaching Students is currently offered in 345 healthcare programs in 36 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. In 2019, the program reached nearly 13,000 students, and it is staffed by more than 963 survivor volunteers.

"We are very excited to have the opportunity to bring our program to the University of Arkansas, which marks our first event in the state of Arkansas," said Lori Clemens, mid-South regional coordinator for the Survivors Teaching Students program and a 19-year ovarian cancer survivor.

"In turn, we are grateful to have the opportunity to host Survivors Teaching Students," said Casey Kayser, director of the Medical Humanities Program. "The education they offer and the personal stories they share are so valuable, not only for medical education and practice, but for all of us, as patients, caretakers, providers — simply human beings."

Please contact Casey Kayser at ckayser@uark.edu for the Zoom link and password.