Our Mission
To promote and advance patient-centered, evidence-informed, multi-disciplinary, and comprehensive cancer care that utilizes mind and body practices, natural products, and/or lifestyle and behavior modifications alongside conventional cancer care to improve the lives of people affected by cancer.
- The Integrative Oncology SIG aims to optimize health, quality of life, and clinical outcomes, and to empower patients to become active participants in cancer prevention and across the cancer continuum.
- To promote a forum where researchers and scientist practitioners have opportunities for networking and gaining up-to-date state of the science knowledge on complementary and integrative therapies research and clinical applications in oncology care.
- To promote a forum for collaboration and communication among multi-disciplinary scientist practitioners, clinicians, and researchers who embrace a treatment philosophy that is bio-psycho-socio-spiritual in dimension.
- To advocate for the transformation of oncology care through true integration of integrative, complementary modalities and approaches into oncology care, so that evidence-informed complementary care is accessible and part of standard cancer care for all patients and families across the cancer continuum.
Meet Our Chairs
Lindsey Wamsley, LPC
Lindsey Wamsley is a native Texan and holds a BA in Psychology, and MA in Counseling, and is a licensed professional counselor-supervisor in the state of Texas and Virginia. Her research background includes work with pediatric hematology/oncology healthcare workers, implementation of the psychosocial standards of care, and attachment theory. As a TBRI-Practitioner, she has used her specialty focus on medical trauma to work in mental health for 18 years. She currently works alongside the most incredible team at Inova Peterson Life with Cancer as a pediatric oncology clinical therapist. Lindsey is actively involved in the APOS Research committee, Pediatric/AYA SIG, Integrative Oncology SIG, and the Caregiver SIG; and is a member of Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO).
Erica Timko Olson, PhD, RN
Erica Timko Olson, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, School of Nursing. She is an Integrative Nurse Faculty Fellow, an A. Marilyn Sime Research Fellow with the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing, an Institute on the Environment 2024 Affiliate and has been a professor for over twenty years. Her area of research is focused on integrative nursing and wellbeing with a particular interest in the role of nature and forest therapy on the psychological and social well-being of pediatric, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.