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Psychologist, Cancer Suvivor Finds Humor Along the Way

Dan Shapiro, Ph.D.
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Dan Shapiro, Ph.D.

Few people view a battle with cancer as laugh-out-loud funny, but Dan Shapiro, Ph.D., says if you can find some humorous moments along the way, it can be healing for both your mind and body.

Shapiro is a psychologist and the Vice Dean for Faculty and Administrative Affairs at the Penn State College of Medicine and chair of the Department of Humanities.

He'll be in Rochester tonight, delivering his talk "A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Chemotherapy".

Click on the LISTEN link above to hear Shapiro talk about his own cancer story and what he learned along the way.

Tonight’s 2015 Ben Sischy, M.D. Visiting Scholar in Humane Medicine Lecture is free and open to the public, but you are asked to register at event.urmc.edu/sischy

Beth Adams joined WXXI as host of Morning Edition in 2012 after a more than two-decade radio career. She was the longtime host of the WHAM Morning News in Rochester. Her career also took her from radio stations in Elmira, New York, to Miami, Florida.