Life After Breast Cancer Featuring Dr. Alexea

Treasures Beyond Jewels

My heart will forever and always be with the breast cancer community. It was such fun chatting with Dr. Alexea today! I promise this episode will warm your heart and give you hope.

Dr. Alexea M. Gaffney, MD is a triple-board certified Infectious Disease sub-specialist, Internist and Pediatrician. She is, above and beyond this, a mother, speaker, author and coach. Dr. Alexea invited the world into her life when she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer at the age of 37. She publicly shared her journey through social media as she underwent a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for her breast cancer treatment. Cancer has transformed her life and her worldview and she has been healing and transforming herself and others through her speaking, teaching and writing. Her teaching emphasizes cultivating resilience and parenting through adversity. Dr. Alexea also utilizes advocacy via conferences, community engagement and social media to educate at risk communities and the general public about lifestyle, disease prevention and management.

She graduated from Fisk University with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2002. She received her Medical Doctorate at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY in 2007. She completed a Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Training Program and Infectious Disease Fellowship at SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center in Stony Brook, NY in June of 2011 and June 2013, respectively. As voluntary academic faculty, she holds the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor within the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Medicine. She currently practices at Stony Brook Medical Associates, in Stony Brook, NY.

Last, she is a firm believer in what she calls the “Treat, Eat, Drink and Think” approach to wellness and healing. She has utilized her social media platforms @DrAlexea (FaceBook, Instagram and Twitter) to share her medical motivation and healthy influence. Here she not only gives glimpses and insights of her life as a physician and mother surviving breast cancer but also shares the story of her treatment, survival and how she thrives and helps others cope with treatment. She utilizes these platforms to give hope and encouragement to Breast cancer survivors and their families through and beyond the treatment process. Her passion and purpose is to create healing pathways to help others achieve total health and wellness, mind, body and spirit.

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