Holst-Wolf presents at Northwestern Mutual Childhood Cancer Survivorship Symposium

Jessica Holst-Wolf, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Kinesiology, gave an invited talk at the Northwestern Mutual Childhood Cancer Survivorship Symposium on the U of M campus on April 27.

The talk was a preliminary presentation of her dissertation research, measuring somatosensory deficits in individuals treated with chemotherapy for pediatric cancers. The objective was to demonstrate that the sensory assessments developed by the Human Sensorimotor Control Lab (HSCL) have the appropriate resolution to correlate with cancer treatment variables. If proven successful, these sensory assessments could become tools used by doctors to make more informed treatment decisions that minimize negative side effects of chemotherapy.