Bridging Worlds: Integrating Functional Medicine into Cancer Care

Sarah Glynn is a clinically trained midwife and health publisher who has spent more than two decades translating complex medical insight into accessible, evidence-informed care. She founded the first international exchange program and online college for out-of-hospital midwives, helped launch flagship online learning programs with Sounds True, produced the Dragonfly Health series on Gaia TV, and hosts Boulder Wellness Week, convening leaders across integrative and conventional medicine. Diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer — and having lost her own mother to the disease — she founded Peony, a platform that helps women navigate breast cancer with clarity, evidence, and support. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her two children.

Dr Olivia Ly Lesslar is an Australian-educated medical doctor with degrees in Medicine and International Relations. Her work spans functional medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, preventative health, longevity, neurodegeneration and complex multi-system conditions, with a particular focus on looking beyond symptoms to understand the wider drivers of health.

She works with clinics, companies and organisations internationally, while practising medicine in Australia through Cingulum Health in Sydney, a neuro centre founded by Professor Charles Teo. There, she curates personalised programmes that may include neuroplasticity-focused approaches such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, hyperbaric oxygen, photobiomodulation, breathwork, rehabilitation and nutrition strategies.

A faculty lecturer at the Geneva College of Longevity Science, Dr Lesslar also has research activity listed across topics including rTMS, ME/CFS, post-COVID condition, allergy and neuro-oncology. At Copenhagen Health Week, she brings a systems-minded, evidence-informed perspective on how the mind, immune system, nervous system and everyday behaviours shape long-term wellbeing.

Lea Hellmann Midtgaard er cand.merc. fra CBS, managementkonsulent og mor. Hun har videreuddannet sig inden for mental sundhed og performance, har stiftet den mentale sundhedsplatform Mind Care Collective og lever i dag af at holde foredrag om mental sundhedsfremme og det bæredygtige arbejdsliv, hvilket også er emnerne, hun har skabt en masterclass om hos CBS Executive. Hun driver desuden sin populære podcast Vores Mentale Sundhed, i hvilken hun har interviewet mere end 100 eksperter og fagpersoner.