Education is Empowerment
Navigating cancer care information can be overwhelming so we offer you a chance to sit down with a medical professional and learn information tailored to your situation, as well as discuss resources available to help you.
Amy Fentress, RN, MSN, OCN, RYT of Breathe Hope for Cancer provides free education, navigation, and inspiration services to cancer patients, caregivers, and survivors.
With over 29 years of nursing experience, Amy has worked in many capacities as an oncology nurse including chemotherapy infusion, management, pharmaceutical educator, and most recently Co-Founder of Complementary Cancer Care Inc. Amy is a member of Oncology Nurses Society and American Holistic Nurses Association.
Amy’s passion is to empower those affected by cancer through education and inspiration. Contact Amy to schedule a call.
Cancer Prevention & Survivorship
The following series was held online via Zoom in February 2021. If you missed the series, you can view the recordings on our You Tube channel. Click on the links below to view.
Feb 2nd ~ Let’s Talk: Food & Nutrition Basics (Part 1), with Nicole Santapola
Feb 9th ~ Let’s Cook: Food & Nutrition – Making it Happen (Part 2), with Nicole Santapola
Feb 16th ~ Let’s Remodel: Healing Mind, Body & Soul with Mindful Movement, with Lorien Neargarder
Feb 23rd ~ Let’s Relax: How Emotional Health and Social Support Contributes to Strength of Immune System and Well-Being, with Dr Nancy MacKay
Speaker Bios:
Nicole Santapola is the Program Manager for Health Education and Cancer Prevention at Orlando Health Cancer Institute. She has a Bachelors in Health Administration from University of Central Florida and an avid Gator fan, where her college career began. For over 15 years, Nicole has been instrumental in bringing to the center, education for oncology professionals and in 2010, with the dare of her coworker to make a green smoothie, the idea of taking food to patients and staff via a roving Healthy Food cart began! Nicole was promoted to Manager of Cancer Prevention and Outreach shortly thereafter (and not because of her smoothie!) She has education in holistic nutrition and macrobiotics with a certificate in Culinary Nutrition from the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, Canada. She has assisted FitLiving Eats Chef and Owner in many private and public cooking classes and currently prepares plant-based meals for a local family.
Her passion to help others in the area of prevention and wellness continues sharing many presentations, cooking demonstrations and smoothies to the Central Florida Community. She has walked a journey for her own healing through the use of many tools mostly outside the role of conventional medicine and cares a great deal about the health and wellbeing of others. She is excited to impart some of her journey with you!
Nicole Santapola, BS, CNE
Cancer Prevention & Health Education
Integrative Medicine
Orlando Health Cancer Institute
1400 S. Orange Avenue | MP 705 | Orlando, FL 32806
Lorien Neargarder has worked with cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers in hospital, studio, and home settings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area of California and in Brevard county of Florida. She has several years’ experience teaching yoga in a pain management clinic as well as a psychiatric ward. She has been practicing yoga since 1999, began teaching in 2004, and continues to learn about mindful movement.
She holds one 500-hour certification from Breathe Together Yoga and another from Prajna Yoga, as well as certificates from Therapeutic Yoga, Y4C (Yoga for Cancer), is a Cancer Exercise Specialist and has completed a 200-hour Qigong course with Triloka. Lorien has also received training from the integrative oncology departments of both MD Anderson and Memorial-Sloan Kettering. In 2016, Lorien earned the title of Certified Yoga Therapist from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
Lorien Neargarder, C-IAYT, BSME
Yoga Therapist Specializing in Cancer, www.yogabylorien.com
Author of CANCER + YOGA For People Living with Cancer and Their Yoga Teachers, Healthcare Professionals and Caregivers
Dr Nancy MacKay is a licensed clinical psychologist. She graduated with a degree in psychology from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. She received a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Richmond in Virginia, where she was awarded a full assistantship. She earned a Doctor of Psychology degree from the Florida Institute of Technology. While at FIT she volunteered as a rape crisis counselor for the Sexual Assault Victims Services agency.
Dr MacKay was able to develop advanced expertise for individual therapy, psychodiagnostics, and psychological testing at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr MacKay has continued to enrich her knowledge and professional development via extensive continuing education. Dr MacKay has been presented with both the Victims Witness Services Star Award and the State Attorney’s Humanitarian Award.
In addition to her private practice, Dr MacKay has served as an Adjunct Professor at Barry University and at Brevard Community College. She spent several years as the facilitator for the Brevard County State Attorney’s Office Homicide Survivors Group. She consulted for Brevard Hospice as a grief group facilitator. She is trained in Critical Incident Stress Management and has provided consultation services for numerous local businesses and agencies after they have undergone traumatic experiences. Dr MacKay is a member of the American Psychological Association, National Register of Health Care Providers, and the Florida Psychological Association.
Dr Nancy McKay
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
1970 Michigan Avenue Suite J-2
Cocoa, Florida 32922
www.drnancymackay.com
Resource Network
Facing cancer is daunting. No one should face it alone. Here are some national and local resources for people going through cancer who need help addressing the practical, psychological, and emotional impacts of cancer.