9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 1:00pm Eastern Time, the Mayo Clinic will host an interactive webinar on hilar cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile ducts). Bile duct cancer, a very rare disease, has been showing up among recovery workers at the World Trade Center. Julie Heimbach, MD, of the Mayo Clinic’s Liver Transplant Program, and […]
Join Frankly Speaking about Cancer: Coping with Metastatic Cancer on Thursday, August 13, 2015, at 6:30pm ET for a discussion with Felice Apolinsky, LCSW, and J. Dawson Wells, mindful meditation facilitator, both from Gilda’s Club in Nashville; and patient representative Robert Wolf. Their discussion will cover common concerns that people diagnosed with metastatic cancer face in everyday life, […]
Please note that an important deadline for 9/11 first responders who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer is approaching. Men who worked at the site of the World Trade Center, the Fresh Kills landfill, the morgue, or aboard any of the transport vehicles and who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between September 11, 2005 and September 11, […]
A cancer diagnosis can lead to out-of-pocket expenses. If you or a loved one is impacted by melanoma, join Frankly Speaking about Cancer on Tuesday, August 18,2015 at 6:30pm ET for Frankly Speaking About Cancer: Melanoma, Managing Out-of-Pocket Costs a free webinar to discuss best ways to understand, prepare for and manage these expenses. There will […]
There will be a comedy benefit for Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Act on 5:30pm on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at UFT headquarters in Lower Manhattan. Comedian Colin Jost of Saturday Night Live will headline. Jost is the son of FDNY chief medical officer Kerry Kelly and knows the seriousness of the […]
Football player George Martin will appear at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 6:30pm to discuss his 2007 walk across America to help sick 9/11 recovery workers. The talk will be followed by a signing of Martin’s book Just Around the Bend: My Journey for 9/11. Copies of the book […]