Speaker and panellist
Engaging and empowering, Dr Mei-Ling’s personal and professional experiences of cancer and mental health give her a unique insight into thriving through adversity, which she shares with her audience.
Drawing on her professional experience of managing women’s health and menopause coupled with her own cancer related early menopause she speaks bravely and boldly about the journey women face as their hormones change.
Dr Mei-Ling shares her story and insights into how to move forward after trauma, to maintain mental health and wellbeing, and navigate life through cancer treatment and beyond.
Featured in the recent Cancer Research UK ad campaign, speaking events have included the launch of the CRUK Manifesto, the Keating Foundation Emeralds and Ivy Ball as well as That Cancer Conversation Podcast and interviews with press & media.
Women’s wellbeing in the workplace
Understanding and working with the natural hormonal fluctuations can help enhance women’s productivity and well-being. Knowledge of the changes women go through, normalising the conversation about this and making reasonable adjustments leads to higher employee satisfaction, productivity and retention and benefits to the entire organisation.
As a women’s health specialist who has first-hand experience of early menopause due to cancer treatment Dr Mei-Ling talks about the changes women experience. Opening up the conversation around menstrual health, how heavy periods or endometriosis can significantly impact the working day, what “baby brain” and “brain fog” really are, and what it feels like to experience this in the work place.
Talking about women’s health matters. Ensuring their health needs are met in the workplace is essential to achieving gender equality. These aren’t just “women’s problems” they are a fact of life and affect everyone directly or indirectly. Knowledge discussion can help normalise this and signals a workplace that values its staff and fosters a supportive environment.
Supporting staff through a cancer journey
Over 120,000 people of working-age get a cancer diagnosis each year, adding to the total of 750,000 working-age people already living with cancer.
What do you say when a colleague tells you they have cancer?
How do you support them during their cancer journey?
What should you not say?
Returning to the professional workspace after cancer treatment is daunting. Find out how to create a supportive work environment to ease the transition.
Resilience & Mental well-being for your teams
In the event of an emergency on an aircraft you’re instructed to put on your own oxygen mask first.
Find out how to protect your mental wellbeing in the workplace through simple, achievable and maintainable steps.
1 in 6 adults will experience symptoms of a common mental health problem such as anxiety or depression every week.
Find out what your organisation can do to transform mental wellbeing in the workplace and look after your staff.
Living life with breast cancer
As a doctor I thought I knew about patient’s cancer journeys. But there was so much I didn’t know.
I share personal and professional insights into living with breast cancer. From diagnosis to survivorship; the impact on family life, body image and sexuality.
How exercise saved my life and how to not live life in the shadow of cancer.
Why it matters
1 in 2 of us will have a lifetime diagnosis of cancer.
Every 10 minutes in the UK a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Through sharing her story and her work as an NHS GP, Dr Mei-Ling engages the audience, discussing and destigmatising body awareness. She helps empower people to access and navigate the health care system.
With her unique insight, from both sides of the consulting room, she raises awareness of the early signs of cancer, the importance of screening and how research is saving lives.
“I wanted to share my story in support of Cancer Research UK to help raise funds for vital research… because that is the only way we are going to beat cancer as a disease…..”
Dr Mei-Ling has raised over £30,000 to support Cancer Research UK, the only charity that funds research into all 200 cancer types. You can support their work by donating here:
https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/unite/mei-lings-giving-page
Cancer waits in the UK are at an all time high.
A 4 week delay in starting treatment can increase the risk of dying in some cancers by 4-6%.
Dr Mei-Ling shares her message about why politicians need to act now to back the CRUK manifesto and their call to “establish a National Cancer Council for England and coordinate a cross government long term cancer action plan”