Fran Drescher, Joan Lunden To Talk At Northwell/92Y Women’s Forum

NEW HYDE PARK, NY — Actress Fran Dresher of “The Nanny” fame and journalist Joan Lunden are part of the lineup of presenters who will speak at Northwell Health and 92Y’s first Women’s Health Summit next month.

The free summit, which will be hosted in collaboration with the 92Y, will include experts speaking about medicine, parenting, and behavioral health.

It will feature leading doctors, experts, authors, and others to “equip women and girls with the knowledge and power they need to lead their healthiest, happiest, most fulfilled lives,” according to a news release.

It will be held virtually June 7 - 11.

Drescher is delivering the keynote, “Cancer Schmancer 2021,” which will be moderated by April Long from Town & Country magazine. Drescher will talk about her experience with uterine cancer that helped her launch her nonprofit of the same name, which she conceived to change the way policymakers and patients think about cancer and healthcare, Northwell officials said..

Drescher will talk about her “foundation’s latest work, her holistic approach to wellness, the ways in which you can help protect yourself, the importance of knowing your rights as a patient, and more – all drawing on research to enlighten you and an experience she wants to spare you,” according to the news release.

“I got famous,” Drescher once famously said, adding, “Then I got cancer. Now I live to talk about it.”

Award-winning journalist Lunden Joan Lunden, who wrote about her experience as an aging baby boomer in her book, “Why Did I Come Into This Room?,” will speak on Aging and Brain Health with the Women’s Brain Health Initiative’s Lynn Posluns. She will address the mental and emotional aspects of aging, with takeaways on what you can do to protect your brain health by sharing frank, but often funny truths about her “experiences with changes in energy, weight, sleep, and sex drive, and navigating a society that reveres youth,” according to the news release.

Lunden and Posluns will address disorders associated with brain aging that “disproportionately affect women, as well as discuss the latest scientific findings on brain health, offering advice on the best ways to protect your own cognitive vitality,” Northwell officials said.

In addition to Drescher and Lunden, speakers will include Northwell experts like Dr. Stacey Rosen, who is vice president of the Katz Women’s Institute, Dr. Tara Narula, and Catherine Alfano, Ph.D, among others. Sessions will include “Raise Your Health: Prioritizing Your Care” with Dr. Monique Jones, Dr. Nina S. Vincoff, Dr. Nancy Beran, and Dr. Stacey E. Rosen will moderate.

Other topics will include mental health during COVID-19, what women should know about cancer, and cancer survivorship, and heart disease in women.

To view the line-up, click here. To register, click here.