Cancer Trauma Project

Public Speaking

Who do I want to speak to?

What is my niche?

What makes me qualified – clinical experience, research, prior speaking

People get first hand experience with me – an expert in the field

Case consultations –

Schuyler Cunningham, MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C, BCD, Director of the Cancer Trauma Project, is an award winning social worker with extensive experience providing instructive and inspiring key notes, ground rounds, lectures, and didactic presentations, including for continuing education credits for Social Workers.

Here is an illustrative list of recent speaking engagements:

  1. Fight Colorectal Cancer  – Podcast on Cancer Related Traumatic Distress (Summer 2019)
    1. Listen to the podcast here.
  2. The Connecticut Women’s Consortium Trauma Matters Podcast – Podcast on Cancer Traumatic Related Distress (Summer 2019)
  3. Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care – Distress Screening in the General Medical Population (October 2018)
  4. MedStar Washington Hospital Center Palliative Care Section – Ground Rounds
  5. NIH Intramural Research Training Award Poster Day – Influence of Psychosocial Distress on Traumatic Stress Among Oncology Patients on Clinical Trials (August 2018 – PM-42)
  6. National Institutes of Mental Health Social Work Continuing Education Series – Psychosocial Distress Screening in the General Medical Population (May 2018)
  7. National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Social Work Department Conference – Roles of Selective Integrative Therapies in End of Life Cancer: A review of Music, Logo, Dignity, and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapies (March 2016)
  8. NIH Intramural Research Training Award Poster Day – The Effects of Stress on Lung, Blood, and Prostate Cancers: A comprehensive literature review (August 2016)
  9. Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care – Social Work Finance in the Health Care Setting (October 2012)

  • Association of Oncology Social Workers
  • Maryland CEU Institute
  • NIH CC SWD
  • NIH CC Palliative Care
  • NIH CC Chaiplin’s
  • Servant Leadership School, Washington, DC
  • MSW Interns
  • Church of the Saviour Washington, DC – Wellspring Community
  • ManKind Project USA
  • The Catholic University of America, National School of Social Service
  • DC Rape Crisis Center

Here is an illustrative list of some of his recent talk:

Topics –

  • Cancer related traumatic stress
  • PTSD and traumatic stress
  • Psychosocial aspects of chronic and acute illness
  • EMDR
  • Neurofeedback

Mr. Schuyler Cunningham ([email protected]), MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C, Board Certified Diplomat is a social worker and researcher. His extensive experience includes practicing social work at the Washington Cancer Institute, the DC Rape Crisis Center, the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, and The Washington, DC Center for Neurocognitive Excellence. Schuyler’s clinical experience includes certification in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), providing supervision to new social workers and EMDR practitioners, providing  Infra-Slow Frequency neurofeedback therapy, and training Masters students. He is a sought after speaker and has published on various aspects of mental health counseling including papers on cancer rehabilitation, innovative treatments for smoldering multiple myeloma, screening for psychosocial distress in non-oncology patients, and palliative care for people with mesothelioma. Mr. Cunningham obtained his Masters in Social Work from the National Catholic School of Social Service at the Catholic University of America and holds advanced social work licenses in both DC and Maryland.

FightCRC

Association of Oncology Social Workers

Maryland CEU Institute

NIMH

NIH CC SWD

NIH CC Palliative Care

NIH CC Chaiplin’s

NIH IRTA Poster Day

Servant Leadership School, Washington, DC

MSW Interns

MedStar Washington Hospital Center Palliative Care Section – Ground Rounds

Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care

Church of the Saviour Washington, DC – Wellspring Community

ManKind Project USA

The Connecticut Women’s Consortium Trauma Matters Podcast

The Catholic University of America, National School of Social Service

DC Rape Crisis Center