Advance Care Planning

Advance care planning can provide you and your family with a meaningful way to communicate your treatment preferences with your healthcare team and give you a voice in your care even when you may be unable to express your wishes. This session is developed specifically to introduce advance care planning to individuals living with cancer.

Download the Advance Care Directive Workbook in English(Link downloads document) (Link opens in new window) or Spanish(Link downloads document) (Link opens in new window) to start planning your healthcare decisions today.

Facilitated by:

• Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, MA, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-CE, FNAP, FAOSW
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Founder of Collaborative Caring
• Shannon La Cava, PsyD
  • Center Director, Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology 
• Neil Wenger, MD, MPH, Professor, Medicine–Internal Medicine
  • David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA
• Anne M. Walling, MD, PhD, FAAHPM
  • Professor-in-Residence, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles
• Manan P. Shah, MD
  • Hematology/Oncology Fellow

To attend this workshop, please register below. For more information about this workshop, please email simmsmanncenter@mednet.ucla.edu. Stay connected by signing up for our newsletter.

The Advance Care Planning webinar will be offered during the following dates and times: