Barbara Abernathy, LMHC, PhD
Pediatric Oncology Support Team
Dr. Barbara Abernathy is the CEO of the Pediatric Oncology Support Team (POST), a nonprofit in West Palm Beach, FL helping children and their families cope with the devastating effects of cancer. She has a PhD in Counseling and has worked at POST for 25 years.
Being a cancer survivor herself, she brings a personal touch to the children and families battling childhood cancer. Barbara is on the local LLS board and a longtime LLS volunteer. She is adjunct faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and FAU.
Barbara has presented as an invited and keynote speaker at many national and international professional conferences and numerous community and school settings.
Scott Sinclair, BA
Cancer and Careers
Scott is a Senior Manager of Programs for Cancer and Careers. In his position, Scott oversees communications, including PR, social media and paid awareness efforts. He also manages CAC’s English website as well as the Balancing Work & Cancer Webinars — a 12-part series offering information and resources on targeted topics each month. Scott has been a member of CAC’s Young Professionals Committee since 2018, and regularly worked in a volunteer capacity supporting CAC's program initiatives before signing on as a full-time member of the team. Prior to this role, Scott worked at CEW, Inc., where he supported Carlotta Jacobson, President of CEW and Founder of Cancer and Careers.
Prior to this, Scott worked on Broadway for five years on productions such as Kinky Boots and Evita. He earned his BA from Emerson College.
Marilyn Stern, PhD, CRC
University of South Florida
Dr. Marilyn Stern received her PhD from the University of Buffalo and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in clinical health psychology. Before she joined the University of South Florida (USF) in 2013, she held academic positions at the University at Albany and Virginia Commonwealth University. At USF, she holds a primary appointment in the Department of Child and Family Studies as well as an affiliate position in the Departments of Psychology and Pediatrics. She also holds a Full Member position at the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.
Dr. Stern’s primary professional focus in pediatric psychosocial oncology has been in children and adolescents with cancer, communication, and transition to survivorship; developing interventions to reduce childhood and adolescent obesity, and the vulnerable child syndrome. Her current work strives to identify those factors related to developing interventions to optimize development among children and adolescents transitioning off active cancer treatment. She also has a related line of community-based intervention work targeting vulnerable Latino youth and their migrant working families with obesity living in rural communities.
Dr. Stern has been recognized for her scholarship and has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Fellow of the American Psychological Association (in 3 Divisions). She also was awarded Outstanding Researcher at USF in 2021 and is recipient of the Dorothy Booz Black Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Counseling Health Psychology and was twice awarded a senior Fulbright scholarship for international work and named a Lady Davis fellow.
Dr. Stern leads an active lab: Interventions for Health-promotion in Oncology and Obesity in Pediatrics (I-HOPE) and is currently PI of several grants from the National Institutes of Health to support her intervention work in pediatric psychosocial oncology and obesity.
Tung Wynn, MD
University of Florida
Tung Wynn, MD, attended Northeastern Ohio Medical University Medical School and completed his residency training at Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron. He completed his fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Wynn became an attending physician in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa in 2003. He joined the University of Florida faculty in 2012 and is an Associate Professor in the division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. He is the director of the UF Pediatric Hemostasis Treatment Center and the UF Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Program. Dr. Wynn currently holds professional memberships with the American Society of Hematology, the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society, the Florida Medical Association, the Children’s Oncology Group and its Late Effects Committee, the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
