Keynote Presentation:  Surviving Cancer Holistically, Mid-Body-Spirit:  Creating a Tool Box for the Journey

Richard Dickens, LCSW-R

Richard Dickens, MS, LCSW-R, is Director of Client Advocacy at CancerCare.  Over 20 years at CancerCare he has held titles: Men’s Cancer’s Program Director, Clinical Supervisor, Blood Cancers Program Coordinator, and developed the Mind-Body Project.  Graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work and a Distinguished Practitioner in Social Work from the National Academies of Practice, he has supervised in the End of Life Post-Graduate Certificate Program at Smith College, taught in the Administration Certificate Program in Hunter College School of Social Work, mentored in Post-Graduate Zelda Foster Leadership Program at New York University School of Social Work.  

Richard has done presentations and workshops throughout North America and Australia, as well as conferences in Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa.  

He has written on numerous cancer related issues for a variety of journals.  Honors include: outstanding abstract award at 5th International Conference on Health and Mental Health in Social Work, Hong Kong, China, 2016;  2017 Leadership in Oncology Social Work, Association of Oncology Social Work Conference Denver, CO; 2019 awarded designation of Fellow by Association of Oncology Social Work, sponsored by American Cancer Society. Intensive trainings: Transcendental and Vipassana Mediation, the later in Igatpuri, India; Clinical Hypnosis, Milton Erickson Foundation, Phoenix, AZ; Dream Tending, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. 

One of his greatest achievements is being a two time non-Hodgkin survivor and recipient of a donor bone marrow transplant in 1994.