Face to Face, Heart to Heart with Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA

Co-presented with The New School at Commonweal

In this CancerChoices webinar, CancerChoices co-founder and TNS host Michael Lerner and Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA, offer a conversation inspired by Janie’s work at the Callanish Society—a grassroots non-profit organization in Vancouver, BC, for people living with, and dying from, cancer.

Speaker bios

Janie Brown RN, MSN, MA was raised in Scotland and educated with a masters in psychology at St. Andrews University, and then a masters in nursing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She worked for many years as an oncology nurse and clinical nurse specialist at BC Cancer in Vancouver. In 1995, inspired by the Cancer Help Program at Commonweal, she founded the Callanish Society, a grassroots non-profit organization for people living with, and dying from, cancer, based in Vancouver. She co-produced a documentary film: I’m Still Here: Young Adults Living Life with Recurrent Cancer. Janie’s book Radical Acts of Love: Twenty Conversations to Inspire Hope at the End of Life (Canongate, UK 2020) describes her work of 30 years working with families living with cancer.

Michael Lerner is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His principal work at Commonweal is with the Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles, CancerChoices, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1983 and is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press).

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