Program

Professional Advancement Session

Organized by the AACR Minorities in Cancer Research (MICR) Council
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Educational Sessions 1-2

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

• Educational Session 1: Clinical Trials: Designing Clinical Trial Strategies

  Session Chairperson to be announced

• Educational Session 2: Use of Genetic Ancestry in Cancer Disparities Research

  Session Chairperson: Rick A. Kittles, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

  Using genetic ancestry in cancer disparities research
  Rick A. Kittles

  Admixture mapping in lung and prostate cancer
  Cathryn H. Bock, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI

  Additional speaker to be announced

Educational Sessions 3-4

2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

• Educational Session 3: Biospecimen Collection and Biobanking: Implications in the Diagnosis and Therapy of Cancer for Underserved Patients

  Session Chairperson: Carolyn Compton, Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ

• Educational Session 4: Health Literacy

  Session Chairperson: Rena J. Pasick, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA

Opening Plenary Session

6:30 p.m.-8:15 p.m.

Keynote Address
Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Opening Reception

8:15 p.m.-10:15 p.m.

Plenary Session 1: Obesity and Cancer: Who We Are, What We Eat, Where We Live, and What We Do

Interventions to improve outcomes among obese cancer survivors
Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC

Additional speakers to be announced

Special Session 1: Multilevel Assessment and Perception of Risk of Cancer in Underserved Communities: The CPHHD Experience

9:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Communicating breast cancer risk in the primary care environment
Kent F. Hoskins, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 

Objective and perceived risk of cervical cancer among Appalachian women
Electra D. Paskett, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH

Multi-level breast cancer interventions in Latinas
Beti Thompson, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Additional speakers to be announced

Break

11:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Plenary Session 2: Hot Topics in Cancer Health Disparities Research

Session Chairperson: Marcia R. Cruz-Correa, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, PR
11:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Lunch on Own / Free Time

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Plenary Session 3: Disparities in Cancer Pain Diagnosis and Provision of Palliative Care

Session Chairperson: Richard Payne, Duke University, Durham, NC
2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Disparities in cancer palliative care for medically underserved populations
Michael J. Fisch, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Additional speakers to be announced

Poster Session A

4:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Tobacco and Global Health

Session Chairperson: Jonathan M. Samet, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.

Forum 1: Policy

9:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Plenary Session 5: Global Health Disparities in Cancer

Session Chairperson: Jorge Gomez, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
11:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Lunch on Own / Free Time

1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m.

Special Session 2: Training and Funding Opportunities in Cancer Health Disparity Research

Session Chairperson: Michael M. Gottesman, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
1:45 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Plenary Session 6: Inflammation and Cancer

Session Chairperson to be announced
3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

Poster Session B

4:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m.

Plenary Session 7: Genomics: 99% the Same, 1% Different

Session Chairperson: John D. Carpten, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ
8:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.

Break

9:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Forum 2: Community-Based Participatory Research to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Current and Future Perspectives

Session Chairperson: Chanita Hughes-Halbert, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Plenary Session 8: Eliminating Colorectal Cancer Health Disparities: Can It Be Done?

Session Chairperson: Electra D. Paskett, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH
11:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Overview of CRC and disparities
Sally W. Vernon, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

Racial disparities in CRC stage at presentation
Anthony S. Robbins, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA

Understanding and reducing disparities in colorectal cancer: From diagnosis forward
Blasé N. Polite, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, Chicago, IL

Statewide colorectal cancer disparity elimination in Delaware
Stephen Grubbs, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, Christiana Care Health System, and Delaware Cancer Consortium, Newark, DE

Closing Remarks

1:00 p.m.-1:15 p.m.

Departure