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Program: Friday, September 19

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Friday, September 19

Friday, September 19

Breakfast and Networking Roundtables

8-9 a.m.

Plenary Session 1: Sustaining Cancer Research Advances: Navigating the Evolving Landscape

9-10:30 a.m. | Key Ballroom 3, 4, 6

Session Chair: Robert A. Winn, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia

  • 9:05 a.m. | Bending without breaking: Resilience for an uncertain academic future
    Elena Martinez, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, San Diego, California
  • 9:20 a.m. | Chanita Hughes-Halbert, USC – University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
  • 9:35 a.m. | Clayton C. Yates, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 9:50 a.m. | Panel Discussion /Q&A

Break

10:30-11 a.m. | Key Ballroom Foyer

Plenary Session 2: Obesity and Cancer

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Key Ballroom 7-12

Session Chairs: Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, Kaiser Permanente – Northern California, Oakland, California & Lauren E. McCullough, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia

  • 11:05 p.m. | Decreasing colorectal cancer burden in Hispanic/Latino communities through screening
    Elena Martinez, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, San Diego, California
  • 11:20 a.m. | How it starts is how it goes: Diagnostic pitfalls in gynecologic cancers
    Kemi M. Doll, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • 11:35 a.m. | The role of body composition in disparities in breast cancer incidence and survival
    Erica T. Warner, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 11:50 a.m. | Obesity and cancer disparities: Where we need to go next
    Tanya D. Agurs-Collins, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
  • 12:05 p.m. | Panel Discussion/Q&A

Lunch on own

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Professional Advancement for Cancer Disparities Researchers – Becoming an Independent and Competitive Cancer Disparities Researcher: Navigating Today’s Environment

Organized by the AACR Minorities in Cancer Research Council

12:30-2:30 p.m. | Holiday Ballroom 1-3

Session Chairs: Ruben A. Mesa, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Karen Winkfield, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

The purpose of the Professional Advancement Session is to provide strategies, practical advice for National Cancer Institute (NCI) funding opportunities, and beyond, for investigators seeking research independence in an increasingly complex environment for these important efforts. This forum will foster interactive discussions and offer strategies for trainees and early-stage investigators (ESIs) to navigate a career in cancer disparities research. Topics will span multidisciplinary research areas and focus on promoting workforce diversity. Specific areas of focus will include highlighting relevant funding opportunities and how to navigate traditional and new funding mechanisms, showcasing resources for developing competitive applications, providing grantsmanship tips, and reinforcing the importance of networking. Presenters will review fundamentals of success, as well as provide innovative approaches and tailored information for every career level and discipline.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1 AND 2

2:30-3:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Biobanking Resources to Improve Cancer Research Outcomes for All

2:30-3:30 p.m. | Key Ballroom 7-12

Session Chair: Jennifer B. Permuth, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida

  • 2:35 p.m. | The Puerto Rico Biobanking Program
    W. Douglas Cress, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
  • 2:50 p.m. | National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) Biospecimen Banks
    Heather A. Lankes, NRG Oncology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 3:05 p.m. | Big data, big impact: Driving health innovation with All of Us
    Alia Graham, Patient Advocate, Chicago, Illinois
  • 3:20 p.m. | Panel Discussion/Q&A

Concurrent Session 2: Patient Engagement from Design to Dissemination

2:30-3:30 p.m. | Holiday Ballroom 1-3

Session Chair: Lisa Goldman Rosas, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California

  • 2:35 p.m. | From vision to voice: Team SAMBAI’s patient engagement model
    Tiffany L. Carson, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
  • 2:45 p.m. | From vision to voice: Team SAMBAI’s patient engagement model
    Ricki Fairley, TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance, Annapolis, Maryland
  • 2:55 p.m. | Oh, the places you’ll go
    David O. Garcia, University of Arizona – Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, Arizona
  • 3:05 p.m. | Oh, the places you’ll go
    Sylvia S. Molina, Patient Advocate, Tucson, Arizona
  • 3:20 p.m. | Panel Discussion/Q&A

Break

3:30-3:45 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions 3 and 4

3:45-4:45 p.m. | Key Ballroom 7-12

Concurrent Session 3: Breaking the Hispanic Monolith: Research Differences in Cancer Health Disparities by Community

Session Chair: Alejandro Recio-Boiles, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona

  • 3:50 p.m. | Samuel L Washington, UCSF – University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 4:05 p.m. | Beyond the monolith: Artificial intelligence and spatial-multi-omics advance precision medicine in colorectal cancer among Hispanic/Latino communities
    Enrique I. Velazquez-Villarreal, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California
  • 4:20 p.m. | Rooted in culture, driven by data: Advancing efforts to decrease cancer health disparities through Hispanic patient representation
    Marielle McLeod, Cancer Hope Network, Chester, New Jersey
  • 4:35 p.m. | Panel Discussion/Q&A

Concurrent Session 4: Hematologic Malignancies

3:45-4:45 p.m. | Holiday Ballroom 1-3

Session Chair: Michelle A. T. Hildebrandt, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and Theresa H. M. Keegan, UC Davis, Sacramento, California

  • 3:50 p.m. | Biology underlying disparities in large B-cell lymphoma
    Jean L. Koff, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 4:05 p.m. | Justine Kahn, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
  • 4:20 p.m. | Access to specialty cancer centers for adolescents and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
    Lori Muffly, Stanford University, Stanford, California
  • 4:35 p.m. | Panel Discussion/Q&A

Break

4:45-5 p.m.

Lightning Lectures 1

5-5:30 p.m. | Key Ballroom 7-12

Session Chair: Session Chair: Justin Xavier Moore, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

  • 5:03 p.m. | Tobacco retailer density and cancer incidence in California (2016-2020)*
    Alice Guan, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 5:06 p.m. | A multi-method, collaborative approach in evaluating the experiences and identifying barriers for Black individuals in follow up care for radical prostatectomy and secondary treatment*
    Dante Morehead, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • 5:09 p.m. | Promoting access to in-home cancer genetic testing through a primary care collaborative telegenetics model*
    Daniel Chavez-Yenter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 5:12 p.m. | Early impact of a community-oriented clinical trialist training program: The Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Career Development Award*
    Megan Becker, Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia
  • 5:15 p.m. | SOGI data in oncology: Themes from a large qualitative study*
    Beck Gold, George Washington University Cancer Center, Washington, District of Columbia
  • 5:18 p.m. | Adiposity-related metabolomic signatures and mortality in a population-based cohort of Black breast cancer survivors*
    Bo Qin, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • 5:21 p.m. | The association of estimated visceral adipose tissue amount with risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in the Multiethnic Cohort Study*
    Janine V. Abe, University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • 5:24 p.m. | Disparities in cancer survival among US-born and foreign-born populations by race and ethnicity*
  • Aminu K. Abubakar, Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke’s International University, Chuo, Japan
  • 5:27 p.m. | Association between mortgage lending bias and smoking cessation: The Multiethnic Cohort and Southern Community Cohort Study*
    Mimi Ton, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Poster Session B and Reception

5:30-7 p.m. | Key Ballroom 1-6

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