Carrie Christensen is a BYU business graduate with a background in entrepreneurship and product management. She has started her own floral business, worked on innovation teams, and now serves on the Patient and Family Advisory Council for Intermountain Health Oncology. After being diagnosed with Stage 3 Melanoma, Carrie felt firsthand the gap in resources for young women facing both cancer and fertility decisions, an experience that inspired her to launch Future Blooms: a nonprofit that supports fertility preservation for young women undergoing cancer treatment.

Future Blooms Website: https://www.futureblooms.org/

Future Blooms Instagram: @future.blooms

Jonathan Panarello is an Adult Gerontology Primary Care certified Nurse Practitioner working in the department of Hematologic Malignancies at UCLA Santa Monica. He is originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada and received his initial nursing diploma from John Abbott College in Montreal. Jonathan completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia Canada and a Master of Nursing Nurse Practitioner degree at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He worked in the Coronary Care Unit at the McGill University Health Center in Montreal for six years before moving to Florida in 2017 where he started as a Nurse Practitioner at Moffitt Cancer Center in the Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular therapy department and in Hematology Oncology. Jonathan moved to Santa Monica and began at UCLA in November 2020. Jonathan is very passionate about his career and cares deeply for his patients. He hopes one day cancer will be much easier to treat and cure.

Keep up with Jonathan on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-panarello-292366115/

Dr. Kelsey Lau is a former competitive soccer player with over four years of Phase I-III clinical research experience, including two years at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center. She's a board certified Physical Medicine & Rehab Physician, completed an oncology rehab fellowship at University of Michigan and now serves in multiple roles; most important to our F-U Cancer family as our Chief Medical Officer.

Keep up with Dr. Lau on LinkedIn!