Dr Michelle Kohn

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  Dr Kohn qualified in medicine at University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London (1990), with a distinction in pharmacology and therapeutics and was awarded the ICI pharmacology prize. After completing further medical training, she went on to work in the development of clinical trials. Dr Kohn then resumed her interest in oncology and supportive cancer care while working at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (1996) and was subsequently appointed Medical Advisor to Macmillan Cancer Support to develop their integrative oncology services and guide their supportive care activity (1998-2005). She was then appointed Advisor to Breakthrough Breast Cancer (2006-2007) to guide their research programme in integrative oncology.
  
  She has worked with many organisations in the UK and USA to develop clinical practice, information and research in integrative oncology and supportive cancer care, including the NCI in the USA and NCRI in the UK. She has lectured and published widely on the subject, nationally and internationally.
  
  Dr Kohn is a Specialist in Supportive Cancer Care and in late 2009, she joined LOC to set up a cancer ‘survivorship’ service, launched in early 2010 as the Living Well Programme.
  
  She is the Director of the Programme, which has evolved, in consultation with patients and health care professionals, to embrace total care needs beyond medical treatment. This includes physical, psychological and practical support for patients and family members, from diagnosis through treatment and beyond. The successful programme continues to be led and facilitated by herself, with a growing team of professional collaborators, who are helping develop Living Well into an integral and highly valued part of patient care.
  
  In 2012 Dr Kohn was elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians for her work in cancer survivorship and supportive cancer care.