The Eye Believe Podcast

🔬Discover the groundbreaking journey with Aura Biosciences as they work to develop a novel class of targeted oncology drugs for multiple cancer indications, including for the primary treatment of ocular melanoma. In this episode of the Eye Believe Podcast, we dive deep with Eli de los Pinos, founder and CEO of Aura Biosciences, exploring the cutting-edge advancements in treating ocular melanoma a...

Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, to interview guest, Andrew from @nostorylost   “Andrew Hall is the Co-Founder of No Story Lost. He started No Story Lost with his cousin and best pal, Jeremy. No Story Lost was born after Andrew and Jeremy recorded their Grandfather's story; they saw how important the result was for their family, but also how much hard work it was to do without...

Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, for our first quarter webinar, Good for the Eyes, Good for the Heart. Our guest, Dr. Dorothy Hitchmoth from the Ocular Wellness & Nutrition Society will discuss overall eye nutrition and health, and how caring for your whole body aids in caring for your eyes.   Or follow along here for slides .    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 5K SITES ARE OPEN FOR REGISTR...

“The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is your attitude.” Bob Bitchin   Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, and special guest, Megan McClay.    "𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿. 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗯𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲." 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘆, 𝟯𝟬, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿. 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵...

Ocular Melanoma is a family disease. It doesn't just affect one person - having this diagnosis, the fear of the unknown can affect everyone from immediate family, friends, and more. Learning how to support each other with varying needs and boundaries amidst your diagnosis is worth the listen to this unique patient panel, led by patient and therapist, Carol McColl. Carol McColl has worked as a lice...

Ocular Melanoma patients face a LOT in their diagnosis journey. Facing the fear of recurrence, the fear around scans, fear of dying - there's a lot to unpack. Join us to hear from Katie Wilson, a therapist and patient herself, who specifically studies resilience and the development of post traumatic growth. Katie Wilson is a therapist and an adult educator. She received her master’s degree in coun...

Ocular Melanoma is enough to justify extra support. Dr. Allison Dashow, a patient and psychologist, shares a summary of therapies patients may find supportive, emphasizing the skills that can be developed to reach a point of radical acceptance in your diagnosis. Dr. Allie Dashow is a clinical psychologist and has been seeing clients for psychotherapy and group therapy for the past 6 years. She spe...

Ocular Melanoma is a beast of a diagnosis. Fellow cancer survivor and patient Eve Bogdanove shares strategies for coping with your diagnosis and making meaning throughout the journey.  Eve N. Bogdanove has been a clinical social worker for 28 years. She is a psychodynamically trained with additional training in IFS, SE, EMDR, DBT and is a AASECT Certified Sex & Gender Therapist.  She has exper...

Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, to bring you an Eye Believe Mini-Seminar, Eye on COOG, where we're joined by Dr. Harbour, Dr. Reichstein, Dr. Williams, and Dr. Correa to discuss the Collaborative Ocular Oncology Group, it's founding and history, the research this collaborative study has yielded, and where COOG hopes to take the ocular melanoma community in the future.  Topics...

Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, to interview Debora Barton at TScan Therapeutics. Tune in for an episode full of hopeful advances in treatment avenues and research. Check out their website, www.tscan.com for information on their sites open for prescreening as well as their treatment protocol. You can learn more about the uveal melanoma specific trials at the links below: NCT05...

Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, to interview patients, Ashley McCrary, Kristen MacDonald, and Loren Seaman. We’ll be chatting about their journey through advocacy and where they are today, their personal missions and passion for improving the lives of omies everywhere. Many thanks to The Melanoma Research Alliance and the Ocular Melanoma Foundation for collaborating on this ne...

Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation and special guest, Dr. Lauren Dalvin at Mayo in Minnesota to chat about AAO and the exciting news for uveal melanoma, and then tune in for a discussion validating the patient experience and journey with initial diagnosis of ocular melanoma. She shares the news from 3 new primary treatments of the eye. There is so much excitement in the realm of w...

Join A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, to interview Suzanne O'brien on the topic of Palliative v. Hospice care. Suzanne B. O’Brien RN is the Founder & CEO of Doulagivers Institute. Her life's mission is to increase the availability and access to high quality end of life education and care for patients and families throughout the world. Suzanne has developed free resources and tra...

A Cure in Sight, an ocular melanoma foundation, is joined by guest, Jennifer Welborn, from Richmond, VA. She is daughter of Bobby Welborn, a patient who valiantly fought OM until July of 2023 when he passed. She has dedicated her participation in the All American and Mrs. All American Pageants, directed by Patricia Sullivan, to her father’s legacy, and conveys a level of advocacy we are proud to b...

Steps for Sight 2024 is officially OPEN for registration! Head to www.charityfootprints.com/SFS2024 for more details, to start your team, or to contribute to the cause! We are partnering with the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) to maximize the benefits from the funds raised. The money we raised last year will be matched by MRA to fund a 2-year research grant for Ocular Melanoma. Grant proposals h...

Barbara from Fred Hutch will talk about empowering yourself in survivorship. Barb is currently working at Fred Hutch in the Dept of Oncology serving as the APP for the Survivorship program. As a Stage 3c melanoma patient in surveillance she hopes to support her patients not only as their provider but fellow survivor. Email contact@acureinsight.org with questions. ANNOUNCEMENTS: 5K SITES ARE OPEN F...

In this session, hear from various experts about what it takes to get a drug to market. The bottom line is that research simply does NOT equal a cure. Learn from some of the best in the uveal melanoma pharma world about the process of bringing a treatment or new drug to market. Experts include Dr. Katz, Chief Medical Officer at TriSalus Life Sciences; Dr. Wade from Aura Bioscienes, Lucinda Innes,...

Tune in to hear a patient panel on "What to do when you’re just fed up and DONE with OM," moderated by Dr. Danielle Archer. Dr. Danielle Archer is a licensed mental health therapist and stage IV cancer patient. She utilizes her clinical experience and her cancer journey to help cancer patients manage their mental health before, during and after treatment. Dr. Archer also works with oncology profes...

Tune in to hear more about what is palliative care and how to choose between palliative care and hospice, and when to call each of them. Ted Dropcho, MD, is a Palliative Care physician practicing at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. He serves patients with serious illness and their families. He finds meaning in his work through focusing on patients’ priorities and values to help navigate t...

The first speaker, Gary Barg, spoke on the role of caregiving in a cancer diagnosis.   A noted speaker, writer and publisher on caregiving issues since 1995, Gary Barg is Founder and Editor-In-Chief of the first national magazine for caregivers, Today’s Caregiver, as well the original online caregiver community, caregiver.com. Today’s Caregiver magazine and caregiver.com combine information, advic...

Our final session covers metastatic disease. First, you will hear from Dr. Hall about finding and treating metastases, then from Lucinda Innes about current and upcoming clinical trials, and finally you will hear from Dr. Brechbiel about family and patient coping with a mets diagnosis. Dr. Evan Hall is an oncologist at Fred Hutch who specializes in treating patients with skin and kidney cancers. H...

This session is brought to you courtesy of sponsorship by IDEAYA Biosciences. "IDEAYA is a precision medicine oncology company with deep research and development expertise in synthetic lethality. We are passionately pursuing the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics for patient populations selected using molecular diagnostics. IDEAYA has a world-class team of leading scientists and ad...

Join A Cure in Sight to hear from Todd and Tawnya Cranmore, board certified ocularists who share about Prosthetics 101 - understanding how a prosthetic is made, how to care for it, etc. Todd Cranmore is a Licensed Ocularist in Washington State, a Board Certified Ocularist (BCO) and a Board Approved Diplomate Ocularist (BADO). Combining medicine, artistry and engineering, Todd creates an amazing re...

Share this with your newly diagnosed omies friends--A Cure in Sight is joined by Dr. Andrew Stacey, Dr. Binkley, and Dr. Nguyen to discuss ocular treatments and side effects.   A special thanks to Aura Biosciences for sponsoring this session. Their clinical trial is noted by Dr. Binkley in this session. At Aura, their mission is to develop a new class of oncology targeted therapies that deliver me...

Join A Cure in Sight event host Danet Peterson to hear from Dr. Chen and Dr. Bowen on radiation basics. Understanding how a plaque is made, how radiation treatment is determined, and everything that goes into treating melanoma in the eye.   Dr. Chen; I am a board-certified radiation oncologist who specializes in caring for patients with ocular melanoma, the most common type of eye tumor, and genit...