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Cancer Health Disparities Patient Advocate Posters

Advocates have been invited to submit abstracts on initiatives and programs led by, or in partnership with, patient advocates to help reduce cancer health disparities.

  • Corinne Abrams: Advancing colorectal cancer outreach and screening strategies: Tailoring approaches for two-spirit and urban native LGBTQIA2S+ populations A013
  • Angela Adams: The role of conversational chatbots in enhancing shared decision making for African American men with early-stage prostate cancer A059
  • Shoshana Adler Jaffe: The art of science: painting a new image of genomic research in the indigenous communities of the southwest B134
  • Timethia Bonner: The iCCARE consortium for prostate cancer in black men: evaluability assessment of the implementation of a care plan for black prostate cancer survivors A041
  • Jeuneviette Bontemps-Jones: Results of a qualitative feasibility study to inform the design and development of a new longitudinal cancer cohort of black women A110
  • Tobi Cawthra: Strengthening transdisciplinary teams through developmental evaluation: learnings from a multi-year, multi-project initiative C014
  • Jennifer Crook: Increasing the arm of research by finding and training key community stakeholders: The Mayo Clinic “Community Engagement in Research and Clinical Trial (CERCT)” curriculum phase 2 A086
  • Joseph Dufraine: Leveraging the power of hope leaders for enhancing diversity in clinical trials via a bi-directional cancer health information model A054
  • Ileana Guzman: Contact registry for health-related cancer research: promoting inclusion in research A057
  • Vida Henderson: Expanding clinical trial awareness among black communities through digital engagement A007
  • Brooke Hensel: Community Scientist Research Advocacy Program: Bridging cancer research and community advocacy A056
  • Heather McKee Hurwitz: Framework for a community-based multiple myeloma screening program C115
  • Rohan Jeremiah: Increasing cancer-related community-engagement strategies among historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions A047
  • Virginia Leach: How we learn from black TNBC patients to act for equitable and unbiased care A034
  • Virginia Leach: Use of a novel health tech platform to record patient-reported needs in real time A033
  • Emily Marlow: Approaches to addressing cancer mortality disparities in U.S. health organizations: Identifying key themes in collaborative grant projects A112
  • Emily Marlow: Association between obesity and mortality by race, ethnicity, and sex in the United States, 1999-2018 B099
  • Lauren McCullough: Towards cancer health justice: considerations in designing a US cohort of 100,000 black women B140
  • Shanada Monestime: County-level disparities in lung cancer mortality rates by sex for non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites residing in the United States C095
  • Bonny Morris: Expanding access to oncology navigation in rural Appalachia with a volunteer-support model A026
  • Yaw Nyame: Community partnership to empower Black men to drive research to identify barriers to prostate cancer early detection and equitable care A049
  • Krissa Smith: Connecting with black patients through targeted, breast cancer messaging in the clinic setting A014
  • Alexandr Trifonov: LGBTQ+ health navigation panel: discussing barriers and facilitators in navigation to services for immigrant and non-immigrant LGBTQ+ community members in New York City area A029
  • Alexandr Trifonov: Identifying LGBTQ+-related barriers and gaps in patient and workplace environments: an LGBTQ+ environmental needs assessment at Perlmutter Cancer Center A030
  • Staci Young: Collaborative work groups – authentic community collaboration to reduce Wisconsin’s breast and lung cancer disparities A032