What is the name of the Donna Karan foundation that supports cancer victims and who inspired it?
World-famous fashion designer Donna Karan, in conjunction with her Urban Zen Foundation, is developing this unique program which provides support to cancer patients and their families, as well as the hospital staff itself. Urban Zen trains the “integrative therapists,” who facilitate the support in the form of yoga, meditation, and aromatherapy to comfort those in the inpatient oncology unit at Beth Israel. The integrative therapists also act as patient navigators, hand holding the patients and their families throughout the often rocky and scary road from diagnosis through treatment. The program is the result of inspiration from Donna Karan, who lost her beloved husband Stephan Weiss, an artist and her business partner, to lung cancer in June 2001. Karan shares that while she is grateful for the wonderful doctors who treated her husband. Sources: http://www.huffingtonpo
World-famous fashion designer Donna Karan, in conjunction with her Urban Zen Foundation, is developing this unique program which provides support to cancer patients and their families, as well as the hospital staff itself. The program is the result of inspiration from Donna Karan, who lost her beloved husband Stephan Weiss, an artist and her business partner, to lung cancer in June 2001. Karan shares that while she is grateful for the wonderful doctors who treated her husband, something she noticed was a need to provide care and comfort for patients as well as treating the disease. This new program grew from the complementary modalities she added to Weiss’s care from her knowledge of Eastern approaches.
Karan founded the Urban Zen Foundation in 2006 with her friend and fashion designer Sonja Nutall. Karan’s nonprofit Urban Zen Foundation was responsible for creating the “wellness lounge,” as part of the V-Day event staged by Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues.” Sources: http://blog.nola.com/susanlangenhennig/2008/04/dkaren_blog.
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