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Program: Wednesday, October 21

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 Tuesday, Oct. 20

Wednesday, October 21

Wednesday, October 21

BREAKFAST/Networking roundtables

8-9 a.m.

Plenary Session 5: The Sociomicrobiome: Microbial Pathways Linking Social Drivers to Infection-Associated Cancer Disparities

9-10:30 a.m.

Session Chair: Katherine Y. Tossas, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia

  • 9:05 a.m. | Microbes and malignancy: Tracing the HPV-cervical cancer link in the American Southwest
    Nicole Jimenez, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
  • 9:25 a.m. | Natalie M. Meléndez-Vázquez, University of Puerto Rico – Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 9:45 a.m. | Engineering native bacteria to probe microbial links between environment, inflammation, and cancer risk
    Amir Zarrinpar, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
  • 10:05 a.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

break

10:30- 10:45 a.m.

Plenary Session 6:  From Observation to Action: Innovative Approaches to Understanding and Addressing Early‑Onset Cancer Disparities

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Session Chair: LeeAnn O. Bailey, National Cancer Inst – Shady Grove Campus, Rockville, Maryland and Cassandra Fritz, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

  • 10:50 a.m. |  Rebecca Kehm, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York
  • 11:05 a.m. | Speaker to be announced
  • 11:20 a.m. |  Early onset cancers and health disparities: Emerging biology in a changing risk landscape
    Clayton Yates, Johns Hopkins Medicine Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 11:35 a.m. | Tamika Felder, Cervivor, Inc., Upper Marlboro, Maryland
  • 11:42 a.m. | Lisa Simms Booth, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 11:49 a.m. | Panel Discussion and Q&A

Closing Remarks

12:15-12:30 p.m.

  • Iona C. Cheng, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • Melissa B. Davis, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Carmen E. Guerra, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Kimberly Richardson, Black Cancer Collaborative, Chicago, Illinois
  • Enrique I. Velazquez Villareal, City of Hope, Duarte, California