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Program: Tuesday, October 20

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 Monday, Oct. 19 Wednesday, Oct. 21

Tuesday, October 20

Tuesday, October 20

BREAKFAST/Networking roundtables

8-9 a.m.

Plenary Session 3: Genetic Ancestry (Similarity), Admixture, and Cancer Disparities

9-10:30 a.m.

Session Chairs: Luis G Carvajal-Carmona, University of California Davis, Davis, California and Christopher Flowers, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

break

10:30-11 a.m.

Frontiers and Opportunities Presentation: Spotlight on Hematologic Malignancies and Cancer Disparities

11 a.m.–11:45 a.m.

lunch on own

11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials: Career Development Award

11:45-12:15 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Environment and Cancer in the Era of Big E and Big Data

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Session Chair: Melissa B. Davis, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

  • 1:20 p.m. | Melissa B. Davis, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1:40 p.m. | Miranda Jones, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 2 p.m. | Rena Jones, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
  • 2:20 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

BREAK

2:45-3 p.m.

Concurrent sessions 3 and 4 

3-4 p.m.

Concurrent Session 3: Addressing Pediatric Cancer Health Disparities from a Multifocal Lens

Session Chairs: Philip J. Lupo, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia and Michael E. Scheurer, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

  • 3:05 p.m. | Michael E. Scheurer, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 3:20 p.m. | Maria Monica Gramatges, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  • 3:35p.m. | Puja Umaretiya, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
  • 3:50 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

Concurrent Session 4: From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Strengthening Cancer Care Delivery in Rural and Underserved Populations

Session Chairs: Rachel Ceballos, University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah and Amy Kennedy, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

  • 3:05p.m. | Meeting smokers at the counter: A community pharmacy model for rural tobacco cessation
    Melissa A. Little, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • 3:20 p.m. | Research approaches to understand Helicobacter pylori-associated stomach cancer in rural tribal communities
    Dornell Pete, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
  • 3:05 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

Break

4-4:15 p.m.

Educational Sessions 1 and 2

4:15-5:15 p.m.

Educational Session 1: From Description to Intervention: Advancing Methods to Identify Actionable Drivers of Cancer Disparities

Session Chair: Lauren E. McCullough, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia

  • 4:20 p.m. | How to be a well-adjusted cancer disparities researcher
    Jay Kaufman, McGill School of Population and Global Health, Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 4:35 p.m. | Mya Roberson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • 4:50 p.m. | Scarlett L. Gomez, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 5:05 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A
    Maimah Karmo, Tigerlily Foundation, Stone Ridge, Virginia

Educational Session 2: Models for Cancer Health Disparities Research

Session Chair: Jose Trevino, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia

  • 4:20 p.m. | Improving drug response prediction by increasing the genetic diversity of pre-clinical cancer models
    J. Chuck Harnell, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia
  • 4:35 p.m. | Nicholas Woods, UNMC Eppley Institute, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Omaha, Nebraska
  • 5:05 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

Break

5:15–5:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions 5 and 6

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session 5: Community Outreach and Engagement in Translational Research: The Cancer Health Disparities SPORE Network

Session Chairs: Scarlett L. Gomez, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California and Whitney Steward, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

Concurrent Session 6: Advances in Reducing Disparities in Survivorship, Recurrence, and Progression with a Focus on Asian American Populations

Session Chairs: Jessica Chubak, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington amd Jennifer Leng, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

  • 5:35 p.m. | Developing psycho-oncology interventions for Chinese Americans with limited English proficiency: The role of culture and community
    Florence Lui, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
  • 5:50 p.m. | Janet Chu, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 6:05 p.m. |  Aasthaa Bansal, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 6:20 p.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

Poster Spotlight Presentations 1 and 2

6:30-7 p.m.

Poster Spotlight Presentations 1

Poster Spotlight Presentations 2

Poster Session c and Reception

7-8:30 p.m.