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Program: Monday, October 19

Please note that this meeting will take place as an in-person event in Atlanta and will not live-stream content for virtual participation. The meeting content will be recorded and made available as an on-demand program after the conference. Please see the registration page for details.

All presentations are scheduled to be live, in-person presentations at the date and time specified below unless noted otherwise. Program in progress.

*-Short talk from proffered abstract

Sunday, Oct. 18 Tuesday, Oct. 20 Wednesday, Oct. 21

Monday, October 19

Monday, October 19

Breakfast and Networking Roundtables

8-9 a.m.

Plenary Session 1: Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Disparities: Opportunities and Challenges

9-10:30 a.m.

Session Chair: Enrique Velazquez Villarreal, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California and Mukesh Verma, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland

  • 9:05 a.m. | Andre Pfob, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg , Germany
  • 9:20 a.m. | Enrique Velazquez Villarreal, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
  • 9:35 a.m. | Gabriel Benavidez, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
  • 9:50 a.m. | Mukesh Verma, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
  • 10:05 a.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A
    Ysabel Duron, The Latino Cancer Institute, San Jose, California

Break

10:30-11 a.m.

Special Session: Advancing Translational Research in Cancer Health Disparities

Organized by the NCI U54 Cancer Health Disparities SPORE Program

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Session Chairs: Susan Chang, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California and Leah Hubbard, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Lunch on own

12-2 p.m.

Professional Advancement for Cancer Disparities Researchers

Organized by the AACR Minorities in Cancer Research Council

12-2 p.m.

Plenary Session 2: The Promise of GLP-1s in Cancer Risk Reduction

2-3:30 p.m.

Session Chair: Tiffany Carson, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida

  • 2:05 p.m. | GLP-1 agonists in cancer prevention: Current evidence and future directions
    Florence Porterfield, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 2:25 p.m. | GLP-1 receptor agonist use and survival and recurrence in breast cancer
    Kristina Tatum, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia
  • 2:45 p.m. | Cleo Ryals, Flatiron Health, New York, New York
  • 3:05 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

Break

3:30-3:45 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1 AND 2

3:45-4:45 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Ethnic Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, or Residential Segregation? How Coethnic Neighborhood Context Shapes Cancer Disparities

Session Chair: Kevin A. Henry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • 3:50 p.m. | Salma Shariff-Marco, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 4:05 p.m. | Using cancer registry data to examine geographic disparities in cancer outcomes across ethnic enclaves in New York City
    Daniel Wiese, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 4:20 p.m. | Speaker to be announced
  • 4:35 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A
    Additional Panelist:
    Keeshia Jones, After Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Concurrent Session 2: Designing Global Cancer Disparities Research for Impact: Building Collaborations That Translate, Scale, and Endure

Session Chairs : Adana A. M. Llanos, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York and Camille Ragin, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • 3:50 p.m. | Speaker to be announced
  • 4 p.m. | Valerie Odero-Marah, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 4:20 p.m. | Creating patient centricity in clinical cancer research
    Virgil Simons, The Prostate Net, Hackensack, New Jersey
  • 4:35 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

Break

4:45–5 p.m.

Poster Spotlight Presentations 1 and 2

5–5:30 p.m.

Poster Spotlight Presentations 1

Poster Spotlight Presentations 2

Poster Session B and Reception

5:30-7 p.m.