FEATURED EXPERTS
Become a Peony Featured Expert
Teach a Members-Only Classroom webinar. Join the podcast. Instruct in the Certificate Program. Contribute to the book. Advise on the model.
Each is a defined contribution with a clear scope, a clear audience, and a clear end — agreed in writing before anything begins. Where your work sits behind our paywall, you're paid for it.
WHY NOW
The expertise already exists. We want to connect it.
Millions of women in the United States are living with a history of breast cancer. Cancer centers, advocacy organizations, professional societies, and survivorship programs have built a great deal of what they need.
But the guidance available beyond clinical encounters remains fragmented, difficult to personalize, and unevenly integrated across disciplines. Women are left to assemble information, supportive care, and next steps on their own.
Peony brings that expertise into one multidisciplinary conversation — and we are looking for people who know one part of the journey deeply.
WHAT INTEGRATIVE MEANS HERE
At Peony, integrative cancer care means coordinated, evidence-informed care that brings appropriate supportive, behavioral, rehabilitative, lifestyle, psychosocial, and complementary approaches alongside conventional oncology treatment.
It does not replace oncology care, promote unproven cancer treatments, or imply that every modality carries the same level of evidence.
The clinical team diagnoses and treats the disease. Peony helps extend understanding, continuity, coordination, and whole-person support across the rest of it.
FIVE WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE
01 · Teach a Members-Only Classroom Webinar
Ninety minutes, live, to a multidisciplinary audience of practitioners. Recorded and permanently hosted.
Knowledge-focused sessions become Webinars in the Members-Only Classroom — your lecture, the recorded Q&A, and the practitioner resources and patient tools you contribute alongside them.
Application-focused sessions may become Practice Guides—resources that clarify evidence, limits, scope, useful questions, and referral considerations.
Twelve sessions each cohort are commissioned against a required domain map for the Certificate Program.
02 · Join the Podcast
A conversation on Healing Happens Together, reaching women navigating breast cancer and the professionals supporting them.
03 · Instruct in the Certificate Program
Teach within the Peony Integrative Healthcare Advocate Certificate — guest lectures, case discussion, or module content. Instructor appointments are made separately and formally.
04 · Contribute to The Breast Cancer Book™
Review an assigned chapter for accuracy and current evidence, or provide written contributions, call-outs, and resources.
05 · Advise
Curriculum, research, implementation, quality improvement, or clinical partnership. The Founding Advisory Council is invitation-only and term-based.
THE EXCHANGE
If we charge for it, we pay you for it.
Paid
Members-Only Classroom webinars. Members pay for access to the Members-Only Classroom. Your session lives behind that paywall, so you are compensated for it. Terms are agreed in writing before you prepare anything.
Unpaid
The podcast · The Breast Cancer Book™ · Kickoff events · Advisory contributions. These contributions are unpaid.
What we provide in place of a fee:
- A professionally produced educational asset carrying your name
- A contributor profile in Peony CONNECT when verified professional profiles launch in March 2027
- Continuing discoverability within a searchable educational library
- Distribution to Peony's professional and consumer audiences
- Promotion of your research, books, and practice, where you wish it
- Your pre-existing intellectual property remains yours; Peony's permitted uses are defined in the written contributor agreement
Peony invests in producing your contribution to a professional standard and promoting it.
THE BOUNDARY
Each contribution is defined separately.
A podcast appearance does not make someone an instructor. Teaching does not create Advisory Council membership. One successful contribution creates no obligation to give another.
Instructor, Capstone, assessment, and Advisory Council roles require separate formal appointments.
Every contribution has a clear purpose, audience, deliverable, timeline, Peony contact, and review process — agreed before work begins.
IS THIS SAFE TO PUT MY NAME TO?
- You approve what goes out. You review the final substantive form for accuracy and faithful representation before publication. Production, format, design, accessibility, and distribution stay with us, so the work is made well.
- Your work is reviewed properly. Every contribution passes editorial and clinical review for accuracy, responsible representation of evidence, appropriate context, and patient safety.
- Sponsors fund the work; they do not shape it. Sponsorship pays for production and reach, never for content. Any commercial relationship is disclosed next to the work it relates to.
- Your name is attached to your contribution and nothing else. It signals no endorsement of our wider platform, another contributor, a sponsor, or any product.
- We work with your institution. Titles, affiliations, disclosures, and use of institutional names are confirmed with you before publication. We never ask for confidential, proprietary, or unpublished material.
- No contribution is edited into a recommendation you did not make.
WHAT CONTRIBUTORS SHAPE
The educational model — not clinical guidelines.
Contributors help shape how Peony interprets evidence and brings it into practical education, navigation, care planning, supportive care, and professional development.
They inform the educational model. They do not develop clinical guidelines or standards of care.
Contributors help shape Peony education and professional learning. They do not create clinical guidelines or standards of care.
EDITORIAL PHILOSOPHY
Evidence-informed. Collaborative. Women-centered.
Thoughtful interpretation, not consensus. Contributors are selected because they bring respected perspectives to the conversation — not because they agree with each other.
Peony welcomes respected differences in interpretation and does not require contributors to agree with every other expert or every position represented across the ecosystem.
Where evidence is evolving, we present uncertainty transparently rather than overstating conclusions.
LIVED EXPERIENCE
A distinct and necessary expertise.
Women who have navigated breast cancer contribute expertise that informs relevance, usability, and the realities of care beyond the clinic.
Lived experience and clinical authority are different forms of expertise, and Peony names each clearly.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Medical and surgical
Medical oncology · Surgical oncology · Radiation oncology · Oncology nursing and navigation · Genetics and risk assessment
Rehabilitation and supportive
Rehabilitation medicine · Lymphedema · Exercise oncology · Palliative and supportive care
Whole-person and behavioral
Oncology nutrition · Psycho-oncology · Behavioral health · Survivorship
Integrative
Integrative oncology · Evidence-informed complementary and supportive care
Research, education, and advocacy
Clinical researchers · Academics · Authors · Educators · Public health leaders · Patient advocates · Women with lived experience
THE FIRST CONVERSATION
A Discovery Call, and nothing decided on it.
We talk about your current work, your topic expertise, your interests, your availability, and where your perspective might be most useful — across the Members-Only Classroom, the podcast, the Certificate Program, the book, and other initiatives.
We answer your questions, review how contributing works, and collect onboarding details.
Nothing is formal until a specific contribution and agreement are confirmed in writing.
45 minutes. Nothing to prepare. If that's more than you can spare, a shorter conversation is available.
FAQ
What would I be agreeing to?
Only the specific contribution described in writing. It is not a general advisory commitment.
How much time is expected?
It depends on the contribution. A webinar includes preparation, a ninety-minute live session, and substantive review. The expected preparation, deliverables, accessibility needs, and review time are stated before you agree. A book chapter review is a different commitment entirely. You'll know the expected preparation, participation, review, and timing before agreeing.
Is participation paid?
It depends on the contribution. Members-Only Classroom webinars sit behind the member paywall, so instructors are compensated, on terms agreed in writing before you prepare anything. Podcast episodes, book contributions, Kickoff events, and advisory contributions are unpaid — in place of a fee, Peony produces your contribution to a professional standard, promotes it, and promotes your own work where you wish it, and you keep ownership of everything you bring.
Do I have to participate in every part of Peony?
No. Most experts contribute in one or two focused areas.
Does contributing make me an instructor or an advisor?
No. Instructor, Capstone, assessment, and Advisory Council roles require separate formal appointments.
Who owns what I create?
Your pre-existing intellectual property remains yours unless you expressly agree otherwise. The agreement states what you retain, what Peony owns, and what rights Peony receives.
How may Peony use my name, image, or affiliation?
Only within the permissions stated in the agreement. We will not imply employer approval, broader endorsement, sponsor endorsement, or product endorsement without authorization.
Will my contribution be promoted?
We generally develop a launch and cross-promotion plan, and we'll discuss what aspects of your work you'd like highlighted. Promotion is subject to editorial judgment and scheduling, and is not guaranteed compensation.
Am I required to promote Peony?
No. You may be invited to share approved content with your audience, but promotion is optional unless a specific written commitment is added.
How are conflicts of interest handled?
We ask you to disclose relevant financial, professional, institutional, research, advocacy, product, or sponsor relationships. A disclosure may be shared with the audience, or the role adjusted.
What happens after the Discovery Call?
We complete an internal fit review and may propose a specific contribution. The agreement is signed before any activity begins.
Can the relationship change later?
Yes. Each new contribution is separately discussed and documented.
FINAL CTA
A clear contribution, for a clear audience, over a clear period of time — with scope, permissions, review, and promotion discussed in advance.