Chana Korenblum

Dr. Chana Korenblum is a physician specializing in psychosocial support for adolescents and young adults with/after cancer. Chana earned her BSc and MD at the University of Toronto, and completed a residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at SickKids, followed by a Psychiatry fellowship in Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Psychosocial Oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. She is cross-appointed as a staff physician at Princess Margaret and SickKids.

Chana’s clinical interests include providing personalized, developmentally-tailored psychosocial support to AYA with and after cancer. Her research interests focus on evaluating the effectiveness of psychosocial assessments and interventions in AYA with cancer, in hospital and out, individually and in groups, across all phases of the cancer trajectory.

Recent Publications

1. Kilfoy, A., Panesar, P., Hashemi, E., Masama, T., Pereira, M., Liu, W., Alexander, S., Korenblum, C., Jibb, L. (2023). It Just Made Me Feel Better: Qualitative Examination of the Implementation of a Novel Virtual Psychosocial Support Program for Adolescents With Cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer. 31(10), 610.
2. Smith, M., Avery, J., Korenblum, C., Mosher, P., Gupta, A. (2023). The Future of Adolescent and Young Adult Supportive Care: Looking Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 10.1089/jayao.2023.0039. Advance online publication.
3. Korenblum C., Rosenberg A. Chapter 81: Palliative Care and End of Life for Adolescents and Young Adults. In: Neinstein's Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care: A Practical Guide. 7th Edition. Philadelphia, United States of America: Wolters Kluwer; 2023.
4. Kaka, A., Shama, W., Lucchetta, S., Nishimura, C., Cottingham, D., Positano, K., Markowitz, S., Fung, K., Yohan, A., Horan, R., Chin, M., Jensen, P., Chisholm, L., Alexander, S., Korenblum, C. (2021). Virtual support groups in Pediatric Haematology/Oncology during COVID-19: Lessons learned from the SickKids experience. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 68(12):e29378.
5. Guirguis, S., Fitch, M., Maganti, M., Gupta, A.A., D'Agostino, N., Korenblum, C., Jones, J.M. (2021). Biopsychosocial Factors Associated with Supportive Care Needs in Canadian Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(12):2628.
6. Samadi, M., Avery, J., Black, S., Gupta, A., Korenblum, C. (2021). Letter to the Editor: Music Meet Up - Preliminary Results of a Novel Music Therapy Group Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 10(3), 359-360.
7. Korenblum C., Craig F. Chapter 10: Adolescents and Young Adults. In: Goldman A., Hain R., Meiring M., Rapoport A., editors. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children. 3rd Edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press; 2021.
8. Jones, J., Fitch, M., Bongrad, J., Maganti, M., Gupta, A., D'Agostino, N., Korenblum C. (2020). The needs and experiences of post-treatment adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(5), 1444.
9. Vandermorris A., Sampson-Riden, L., Korenblum C. (2020). Promoting adherence in adolescents and young adults with cancer to optimize outcomes: A developmentally-oriented narrative review. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 67(4):e28128.
10. Fraser B., Korenblum C., Mah K., Watt S., Malfitano C., Rydall A., Schimmer A., Zimmermann, C., Rodin G. (2019). The Experience of Medical Communication in Adults with Acute Leukemia. Psycho-Oncology. 28(1):122-130.