Advocate members of the AACR Annual Meeting Scientist↔Survivor Program® are required to present posters highlighting their advocacy efforts.

Featured below are the posters presented during the AACR Annual Meeting 2024:

• Michelle Audoin: Uncovered: The Breast Cancer Journey of a Black Woman From Advocacy to Awareness to Action
• Suzanne Bays: Co-creation of a Patient Engagement Strategy in Cancer Research Funding
• Nathan Begaye: What Advocacy Looks Like in Rural and Frontier Communities: Cancer Advocacy in Indian Country
• Deborah Binder: The Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation: Spearheading Innovative Research for the Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
• Robert Blomquist: Making the Cancer Journey Easier and Safer for Patients and Caregivers
• Clare Cruickshank: More Than a Token: A BIPOC’s Experience With Patient Engagement
• Don Desserud: Advocacy: A Cancer Survivor’s Holistic Approach to Community Wellness
• Paulette Duggins: Increasing Early Onset Colorectal Cancer Awareness and Screening in Young Adults in African American Communities
• Kirsten Efremov: Cancer Doesn’t Know Age
• Yvonne McLean Florence: Designing a Culturally Tailored Educational Tool to Improve Engagement of African Americans in Clinical Trials
• Rachel Hamilton: Advancing Pediatric Oncology Research Through Collaboration: A Survivor/Clinician/Scientist Tri-Lens Perspective
• Marshelle Harris: Disparities in Breast Cancer or Social Determinants of Health
• Michael Herman: Patients First: Leveraging Investor Influence for Patient-Centric Pharmaceutical Research and Clinical Trials
• Rachel Hirschey: Striving to Hold Accountability in Research Equity
• Keith Hollingsworth: Colontown – A Paltown Community A Wildly Supportive Colorectal Cancer Community
• Gitte Joergensen: Surgery for Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: A Patient Experience Survey from the Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance
• Linda M. Kitts: My Walk With Cancer—And Why Faith, Spirituality and its Leaders Should be in a Clinician’s Toolbox
• Deirdre Lea: Advocacy: A Cancer Survivor’s Holistic Approach to Community Wellness
• Tambre Leighn: “Ask Me!”: Transforming Patient Communication to Improve Enrollment and Adherence in Clinical Trials and Cancer Care
• Aurora Lucas: Portraits of Resilience: Exploring the Lung Cancer Diagnosis Journey among BIPOC Young Women through Narrative Inquiry
• Sabrina Mayhew: Empowered Choices: Transforming Breast Cancer Care through Patient-Friendly Online Clinical Trial Matching
• John Terry McCall: iCCaRE Engagement with Black Faith-Based Organization Leveraging Their Use of Communication Technology to Remedy Disparities in Cancer Literacy, Screening, and Clinical and Biospecimen Studies Participation
• John L. Milner: The NC Minority Prostate Cancer Awareness Action Team
• Cathy Nobil-Dutton: Patient Cancer Identification Begins With Primary Care
• Mary-Gloria Orji: The Cancer Health Fund—Giving Hope to the Nigerian Cancer Patient
• Davida Pantuso: Expanding Outreach to Uterine Cancer Survivors
• Maricarmen Planas-Silva: Angelmira’s Center for Women With Advanced Cancer
• Lourdes Rocha-Nussbaum: Multilevel Educational Strategies and Support for the Cholangiocarcinoma Patient Population
• Naomi Sakurai: AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report Shows Us the Gap of Health Equity for Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Other Underserved Populations
• Ethan J. Schilling: The State of Mental Health Supports for the Cancer Community
• Donna Short: Struggle with Diagnosis and Pandemic Across State Lines: A Case for Point of Care
• Vivian Simbul Sim: Growth of Collaborative Partnerships: An Advocate’s Aspiration for Improved. Global Approaches to Cancer Research
• Christina Sisti: Patient Advocate Perspective: Conversation in Cancer Care
• Nicole Stromer: Ways to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
• Chantale Thurston: AYA Can: Canadian Cancer Advocacy – A Pan-Canadian Patient Led Organization for Adolescents and Young Adults
• Sophia Turner: Helping Older Breast Cancer Patients Navigate Cancer Care
• Mahathi Vojjala: Vaping and Gastric Cancer Risk – Is There a Link?
• William Winkler: Karmanos Cancer Institute, Office of Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement
• Don Wood: Caregivers Have Experience Too!