Center for Surgery in Older Adults Receives Funding for PrehabPal: Digitally Enhanced Coaching to Prepare the Mind and Body for Cancer Surgery
Center for Surgery in Older Adults - - January 09, 2020
The UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults is pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding from the UCSF Integrative Oncology Collaborative (IOC) for our pilot project: "PrehabPal: Digitally Enhanced Coaching to Prepare the Mind and Body for Cancer Surgery." The principal investigator on the study is Emily Finlayson MD, MS, Professor of Surgery, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Director of the Center for Surgery in Older Adults.
A key component of the project is the web app "PrehabPal". Marrying high tech with high touch coaching from the patient support corps, PrehabPal evaluates [...]