| Time |
Session |
Speakers |
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7:45 - 9:00 am
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Continental Breakfast and Registration
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| |
Program Moderator
|
Brian Rivers, PhD
Associate Professor & Director
Cancer Health Equity Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine |
|
8:00 - 8:30 am
|
Meditation
|
Kofi Kondwani, PhD
Assistant Professor
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
|
Thai Chi
|
Tina Rasheed
Certified Instructor
|
| Fitness Assessment |
Jammie Hopkins, PhD
Assistant Professor
Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
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8:30 am
|
Presidential Welcome Address
|
Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD
President & Dean
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
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8:45 am
|
Introductions & Program Overview
|
Beverly D. Taylor, MD
Professor & Chair
Community Health & Preventive Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
|
9:00 am
|
Overview of Cancer in GA
|
Portia C. Buchongo, MSN, MPH
Nurse Consultant
Chronic Disease Prevention Section
Georgia Department of Public Health
|
|
9:15 am
|
Morning Keynote -
Innovative Approaches to Reducing Cancer in Underrepresented Communities
|
Otis Brawley, MD
Chief Medical & Scientific Officer
American Cancer Society
|
|
10:00 am
|
BREAK
|
|
10:15 - 11:00am
|
Innovative Cancer Prevention and Control Strategies
|
|
|
Jill Hagenkord, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Color Genomics, Inc |
|
|
Anya Chang, ND
Naturopathic Oncology
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
|
- Geographic Information System
|
Kevin Matthews, PhD
Geographer, Epidemiology & Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention |
|
11:15 am
-12:15 pm
|
Panel of Local and State Efforts Aimed at Cancer Prevention and Control
Moderator
Tabia Akintobi, PhD
Associate Professor & Director, Prevention Research Center
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
- Susan G. Komen Foundation
|
Tamara Nash, Mission Director |
- Ga Center of Oncology Research & Education
|
Angie Patterson, Vice President |
- GA Prostate Cancer Coalition
|
Rudolph Morgan, Board Member |
- Grady Cancer Center For Excellence
|
Roland Matthews, MD
Director, Grady Cancer Center,
Professor, OB/GYN
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
|
12:30 - 1:30 pm
|
LUNCH, Posters and Exhibitors Session
|
|
12:45 - 1:30 pm
|
Advances in Precision Prevention of Cancer
|
Jill Hagenkord, MD
CMO, Color Genomics, Inc
|
|
1:30 - 2:15 pm
|
Keynote - Cancer Moonshot Initiative
|
Edith P. Mitchell, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine & Oncology
Director, Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson
|
|
2:15 - 2:30 pm
|
Poster and Exhibitor Sessions
|
|
2:15 pm
|
BREAK
|
|
2:30 -3:15 pm
|
Innovative Cancer Treatment and Control Strategies
Moderator
Lakesha Tabels, MD
Community HEalth and Preventive Medicine Residen (PGY-3) |
- AACR/ORIEN/MSM 2020 by 2020 Initiative
|
James Lillard, Jr., PhD
Associate Dean for Research Affairs
Director, Office of Translational Technologies
Morehouse School of Medicine
Lawrence McKinney, MPH Student
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
- Emerging Technology-Telehealth in RUral Areas
|
Dominic Mack, MD
Director, National Center for Primary Care
Morehouse School of Medicine
|
|
3:15 - 4:00 pm
|
Local and State Panelist of Surviving and Thriving Efforts
|
- Green Forest Baptist Church
|
Gwen Black, RN
Chair Cancer Support Ministry |
|
|
Shavonn Richardson, MBA
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer |
|
|
Rachel Spillers-Cannady
Strategic Director
Office of Cancer Caregivers Support |
|
4:00 pm
|
Closing Remarks
|
Sandra Harris-Hooker, PhD
Executive Vice Dean
Morehouse School of Medicine
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