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Kelly Shaffer, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
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What I love about my work is that it takes care and makes it more flexible to work for real people with full lives. So, so many people could benefit from psychosocial support who can't currently access it because of things like distance or time or cost, and that’s especially true for busy family caregivers and cancer survivors who are adjusting to life after treatment. So what my work does, is I take evidence-based programs and bring them online so that people can access them from their own homes and on their own schedules. I'm Kelly Shaffer, associate professor in the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences and a member of the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology. In our center, we build internet delivered programs that bring mental health to scale, and my work in particular focuses on helping cancer survivors and family caregivers with things like sleep, stress, and sexual health. The biggest impact of my research is access. We’re reaching people who might otherwise go without support because they live far from a cancer center or just can't fit another appointment into their busy day. By bringing proven behavioral health programs online, more people can benefit from these treatments. It's about making sure that good care can reach everybody who needs it, not just those who can get to us.
Kelly Shaffer, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Transcript
What I love about my work is that it takes care and makes it more flexible to work for real people with full lives. So, so many people could benefit from psychosocial support who can't currently access it because of things like distance or time or cost, and that’s especially true for busy family caregivers and cancer survivors who are adjusting to life after treatment. So what my work does, is I take evidence-based programs and bring them online so that people can access them from their own homes and on their own schedules. I'm Kelly Shaffer, associate professor in the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences and a member of the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology. In our center, we build internet delivered programs that bring mental health to scale, and my work in particular focuses on helping cancer survivors and family caregivers with things like sleep, stress, and sexual health. The biggest impact of my research is access. We’re reaching people who might otherwise go without support because they live far from a cancer center or just can't fit another appointment into their busy day. By bringing proven behavioral health programs online, more people can benefit from these treatments. It's about making sure that good care can reach everybody who needs it, not just those who can get to us.
