In addition to being one of the top breast cancer specialists in the country, Dr. Amy Comander is a mom, an ambassador of Lifestyle Medicine, an advocate for breast cancer patients and survivors, and marathon runner! Synergy is proud to partner with Dr. Comander and the Ellie Fund to bring our members a wellness series targeting meaningful and practical content to help you feel your best and reduce your risks. This series is open to people of all genders and to anyone whose own life or the life of someone they care about has been touched by breast cancer.
Kicking off this series on Thursday, February 17th at 7pm is professional mentor, author, podcast host, and strategic consultant, Joanna Chanis, with her interactive talk, "LET'S GET OUT OF THIS FUNK!" It will be an evening of goal setting and clarity to set you up for the year ahead. Subsequent events will include “Fast and Furious Healthy Food” with the founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips, Stacy Madison, and an outdoor yoga class with Susan Mulski in April.
We hope you’ll join us!
Dr. Amy Comander is Director of Breast Oncology and Survivorship at the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham and Newton Wellesley Hospital. She is Medical Director of the MGH Cancer Center in Waltham. Dr. Comander received her MD at Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Hematology-Oncology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. She is board certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology, and she became board certified in Lifestyle Medicine in 2020. She is on the board of the Ellie Fund, a non-profit which provides supportive care services to women with breast cancer in Massachusetts. She is a medical advisor to SurvivingBreastCancer.org, a non-profit that provides education about breast cancer. She has a passion for improving the quality of life and outcome of cancer survivors through lifestyle interventions, including exercise, diet, and mind/body strategies. She practices what she preaches, having run 8 consecutive Boston Marathons for charitable causes, and she is training for her ninth this April. In collaboration with Dr Beth Frates, she has launched “PAVING the Path to Wellness,” a lifestyle medicine based program for breast cancer survivors. Recently, Dr. Comander, Dr. Beth Frates, and Dr. Michelle Tollefson have published the "PAVING the Path to Wellness" workbook.
The Ellie Fund is a non-profit organization that provides essential support for those receiving treatment for breast cancer in Massachusetts. For those facing a diagnosis of breast cancer, COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented need for support to help navigate these uncharted waters. In Massachusetts this year, more than 7000 individuals will be diagnosed with breast cancer. The mission of the Ellie Fund is to provide essential support services to individuals with breast cancer, in order to ease the stresses of everyday life, allowing the focus to be on family, recovery, and healing. Services include: providing transportation to medical appointments, nutritional and grocery assistance, childcare reimbursement, nutritious prepared/delivered meals, and integrative therapy services.