2023 Summit on Cancer Health Disparities: Reframing and Addressing Barriers to Adoption of Precision Oncology
This annual oncology conference, 2023 Summit on Cancer Health Disparities: Reframing and Addressing Barriers to Adoption of Precision Oncology (SCHD23), will feature lectures, panel discussions and debates among leaders across the spectrum of cancer care delivery. This conference will bring together oncology professionals, cancer disparity researchers, and other stakeholders to discuss the factors leading to cancer health disparities and ways to overcome the impact of these factors to optimize outcomes of cancer patients.
SCHD23 is an accredited continuing education activity (CME activity) that will foster collaborative interdisciplinary interactions and partnerships to stimulate the development of new research and clinical practices that reduce cancer health disparities and improve outcomes of the diverse patient population.
Target Audience
- Oncologist and Hematologists
- Oncology and Hematology Nurse Practitioners
- Oncology and Hematology Physician Assistants
- Oncology and Hematology Nurses
- Oncology and Hematology Pharmacists
- Oncology and Hematology Fellows/Residents
- Oncology and Hematology Researchers
- Others interested in cancer disparities
HOTEL RESERVATION
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Grand Hyatt Seattle for participants of the 2023 Summit on Cancer Health Disparities (SCHD23). Please reserve your room by Friday, April 7, 2023, for the discounted rate listed below.
Link to book your hotel room - https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/SEAGH/G-SCHD
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify drivers of cancer health disparities and review their impact on patients along the cancer continuum.
- State the financial and physical barriers and review strategies to navigate these factors to optimize the management of patients with cancer.
- Incorporate evidence-based strategies to minimize the impact of specific drivers of inequity in the management of patients with cancer.
- Review barriers to using precision-guided cancer care and discuss evidence-based strategies to navigate these barriers to incorporate the new standards of care in managing patients with cancer.
- Describe challenges and develop novel approaches to improve the participation of underrepresented communities in clinical trials.
Day 1 - April 28, 2023
07:00 AM - 08:30 AM REGISTRATION, BREAKFAST & EXHIBITS
08:30 AM - 09:30 AM SESSION 1 - Clinical trials
Chair: Dr. Hala Borno
08:30 AM - 08:45 AM Rising tide of biomarker selected studies - how genomic testing is key to unlocking inequities in oncology clinical trial access - Dr. Hiba Khan
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM Advanced imaging and stage migration - how finding more diseases may lead to more opportunities - Dr. Curtiland Deville
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM Applying a social determinant of health framework to address clinical trial inequities - Dr. Samuel Washington
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Q&A/Panel
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM SESSION 2 - Immunotherapy and cellular therapy
Chair: Dr. Shailender Bhatia
09:30 AM - 09:45 AM The tsunami of cellular immunotherapies is coming: How can we prepare for equitable access? - Dr. Rahul Banerjee
09:45 AM - 10:00 AM Immune checkpoint inhibitors: Innovative dosing strategies to expand access globally - Dr. Lisa Tachiki
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Q&A/Panel - Session speakers + Dr. Krishna Komanduri, Dr. Hiba Khan
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BREAKS & EXHIBITS
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM SESSION 3 - Novel therapies in cancer
Chair: Dr. Mark Pegram
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Keynote lecture - Dr. Jerry Radich
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Panel discussion/Q&A - Dr. Parameswaran Hari, Dr. Lidia Schapira, & Dr. Manali Patel
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM LUNCH & EXHIBITS
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM SESSION 4 - Access to Cancer Care in LMIC - Navigating Current Challenges
Chair: Dr. Aparna Parikh
01:00 PM - 01:20 PM Oncology Nurse Capacity Building Program in a Low-Income Country Setting - Lori Buswell, MSN, ANP-C & Olivier Habimana, RN
01:20 PM - 01:35 PM The Nursing Experience in Botswana: Leading Patient-Centered Care - Lorraine Drapek, DNP, FNP-BC, AOCNP
01:35 PM - 01:45 PM Panel/Q&A
01:45 PM - 02:00 PM Equitable Partnerships in Global Oncology: Best Practice Examples of a AMCs/LMICs partnership - Dr. Katherine Van Loon
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM Equitable Partnerships in Global Oncology: Best Practice Examples of a AMCs/LMICs partnership - Dr. Erika Ruiz-Garcia
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Panel/Q&A
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM SESSION 5 - Addressing Disparities in Diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Chair: Dr. Ronald Balassanian & Dr. Dan Milner
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM See, Test & Treat Programs in Domestic Setting - Dr. Eva M. Wojcik
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Breast fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy in battling diagnostic barriers to cancer care - Dr. Asteria Kimambo
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Applied machine learning to improve communication and end-of-life care for patients with cancer - Dr. Christopher Manz
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM Making a smarter oncology clinic: how can artificial intelligence identify and reduce disparities in care? - Dr. Julian Hong
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Panel discussion - Dr. Wojcik, Dr. Kimambo, Dr. Manz, Dr. Hong, Dr. Milner, & Dr. Ronald Balassanian
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Career in Oncology - Success Lounge
Chair: Dr. Michael Schweizer & Dr. Jerry Radich
04:00 PM - 04:10 PM Academic career - Dr. Katherine Van Loon
04:10 PM - 04:20 PM Community practice - Dr. Tanya Wahl
04:20 PM - 04:30 PM Disparities in cancer care - Dr. Narjust Florez
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM Panel discussion - Dr. Andrea Veatch
Day 2 - April 29, 2023
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM REGISTRATION, BREAKFAST & EXHIBITS
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM SESSION 6 - LGBTQI, Young Adults
Chair: Dr. David Aboulafia
08:00 AM - 08:15 AM Supportive care among people living with HIV and cancer in the US - Dr. Jessica Islam
08:15 AM - 08:30 AM Engaging LGBTQI+ communities in clinical trials - Michael Louella, BS
08:30 AM - 08:45 AM Engaging resource-constrained countries in research trials of HIV and Cancer: Lessons from Uganda and the AIDS Malignancy Consortium - Dr. Warren Phipps
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM Panel/Q&A
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM SESSION 7 - Plenary session
Chairs: Dr. Hannah Linden & Dr. Ana Maria Lopez
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM Precision Medicine in Low and Middle-Income Countries - Dr. Julie Gralow
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM Panel/Q&A - LaToya Williams, MBA, Dr. Katherine Van Loon, Dr. Marianne Dubard-Gault
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM BREAKS & EXHIBITS
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM SESSION 8 - Surgical Oncology
Chair: Dr. Evan Glazer
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Understanding disparities in palliative care of the cancer surgery patient - Dr. Bridget Fahy
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Identifying opportunities to address disparities in gastrointestinal surgical oncology - Dr. Ambria Moten
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Rural/urban disparities in peri-operative systemic therapy in patients with breast and cutaneous malignancies - Dr. Cristina O'Donoghue
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Panel/Q&A
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM SESSION 9 - Radiation Oncology
Chair: Dr. Lia Moriguchi Halasz
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Cancer Equity Research: Priorities for a New Era - Dr. Gita Suneja
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Disparities in Access to Radiation Oncology Facilities by Race and Ethnicity in Washington State and United States - Dr. Solmaz Amiri
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Cancer Equity Globally: the Radiation Oncology Perspective - Dr. Benjamin Li
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM Global Expertise in Medical Physics - Dr. Afua Yorke
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Question and Answer for all speakers
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM LUNCH & EXHIBITS
01:30 PM - 02:45 PM SESSION 10 - Private practice and academia
Chair: Dr. Ulka Vaishampayan
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM Improving Access: A Veterans Health System Perspective - Dr. Julie Graff
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM The Access and Quality of Palliative Care within Cancer Care Community - Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Panel discussion: Improving Cancer Care in the Academia and Community: Working Together towards a common goal! - Dr. Joseph Rosales, Dr. Julie Graff, Dr. Paul Monk, Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah, & Dr. Scott Tykodi
02:45 PM - 03:45 PM SESSION 11 - Career in Cancer Health Disparities - training and funding opportunities
Chair: Dr. Ana Maria Lopez
02:45 PM - 02:50 PM Welcome and introduction - Dr. Ana Maria Lopez
02:50 PM - 03:20 PM Keynote lecture - Dr. Nelson Aguila
03:20 PM - 03:45 PM Panel discussion - Dr. Nelson Aguila, Anna Marsden, MBA, Reuben Cano, & Dr. Candace Chow
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM SESSION 12 - Current oncology workforce (Avoiding burnout, optimizing patient care)
Chair: Dr. Hannah Linden
03:45 PM - 04:10 PM What’s Moral Distress got to do with it? Equity and Burnout - Dr. Claudia Finkelstein
04:10 PM - 04:45 PM Panel/Q&A- Dr. Natalie Uy & Dr. Lynn Symonds
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM Binaytara Foundation Annual Gala
Day 3 - April 30, 2023
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM REGISTRATION, BREAKFAST & EXHIBITS
08:00 AM - 08:30 AM Career Reflection - Dr. Edith Mitchell
08:30 AM - 09:10 AM Oral Abstracts - This is a non-CME session
Chair: Dr. Siddhartha Yadav
08:30 AM - 08:38 AM A Mixed Methods Study to Examine the Influence of structural racism on Treatment in aggressive hematologic malignancies- Ana Maria Avila and Presented by Jerry Luo, MD, DO
08:38 AM - 08:46 AM Temporal trend in the use of medical interpreters for gastric cancer patients: a single-institution study- April Choi, MD
08:46 AM - 08:54 AM Is physician-patient language concordance better for clinical trial enrollment in breast cancer patients- Daniela Urueta Portillo, MD
08:54 AM - 09:02 AM Social disparities leading to non-adherence in women with abnormal cervical cancer screening- Kaitlyn Estes
09:02 AM - 09:10 AM Understanding Improvements in Disparities in Breast Cancer Care in Memphis, Tennessee: A Comparison of Two Time Cohorts- Linnea Cripe, MD
09:10 AM - 10:15 AM Poster Abstracts and Break
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM SESSION 13 - Screening and Early detection
Chair: Dr. Robert Smith
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM Examining Implicit Bias and Health Disparities through the Cancer Screening Lens - Dr. Shana O. Ntiri
10:35 AM - 10:55 AM The use of prediction models to reduce racial disparities in lung cancer Screening eligibility - Dr. Rebecca Landy
10:55 AM - 11:15 AM Computable Practice Guidelines and Clinical Decision Support Can Help Address Health Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening and Management - Ginny Meadows, MSHI, RN-BC
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Applying precision approaches to address disparities in follow-up colonoscopy uptake - Dr. Gloria Coronado
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM Panel/Q&A
12:00 PM Adjourn
HOTEL RESERVATION
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Grand Hyatt Seattle for participants of the 2023 Summit on Cancer Health Disparities (SCHD23). Please reserve your room by Friday, April 7, 2023, for the discounted rate listed below.
Link to book your hotel room - https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/SEAGH/G-SCHD
NO SHOW POLICY:
In the event that a guest does not check into their room on the first night of their reservation, this will be considered a “no show”. Client understands that a no show room is released at midnight for all remaining days of the reservation. Reinstatement of the reservation will be based on hotel availability and cannot be guaranteed. All no shows will be charged a fee of one night’s room and tax to the method of payment used to guarantee the reservation (individual credit card or group master account).
CANCELLATION
All individual reservations must be guaranteed by credit card when making the reservation. To avoid cancellation fees, guestsmay cancel their reservation by 4pm PST 24 hours prior to their arrival. Guaranteed reservations not cancelled within the 24 hours prior to arrival will be billed to the guest or Group, as appropriate.
PARKING
David Aboulafia, MD
Hannah Linden, MD FACP
Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH
Aparna Parikh, MD
Binay Shah, MD, MHA
Siddhartha Yadav, Siddhartha Yadav, MD, FACP
H. Aguila, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Solmaz Amiri, DDes, Msc
Linda Armstrong, Panel Speaker
Rahul Banerjee, MD, FACP
Lori Buswell, MSN, ANP-C
Reuben Ryan Cano
Candace Chow, PhD
Gloria Coronado, PhD
Curtiland Deville, MD
Lorraine Drapek, DNP FNP-BC AOCNP
Marianne Dubard-Gault, MD, MS
Bridget Fahy
Claudia Finkelstein, MDCM
Narjust Florez, Associate Director of Cancer Care Equity Program, Thoracic Medical Oncologist
Julie Graff, MD
Julie Gralow, MD
Olivier Habimana, RN, BScN
PARAMESWARAN HARI, MD
Julian Hong
Jessica Islam, PhD, MPH
Hiba Khan, MD, MPH
Asteria Kimambo, MD, MMED, Anatomical Pathologist
Krishna Komanduri, MD
Rebecca Landy, PhD
Benjamin Li, MD, MBA
Michael Louella, BS
Christopher Manz, MD MSHP
Anna Marsden
Ginny Meadows, MSHI, RN-BC
Edith Mitchell, MD, MACP, FCCP, FRCP
Paul Monk
Ambria Moten, MD, MS
Shana Ntiri, Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Cristina ODonoghue, MD, MPH
Sydney Osborne
Manali Patel, MD, MPH, MS, FASCO
Warren Phipps
Joseph Rosales, MD
Erika Ruiz Garcia, MD, MSc
Lidia Schapira, Professor of Medicine
Ishwaria Subbiah, MD, MS
Gita Suneja, MD, MSHP
Lynn Symonds
Lisa Tachiki, MD
Scott Tykodi, MD, PhD
Natalie Uy, MD
Katherine Van Loon, MD, MPH
Andrea Veatch, MD
Tanya Wahl, Medical Oncologist, Medical Director Providence Swedish Cancer Institute Issaquah
Samuel Washington
LaToya Williams, MBA
Eva Wojcik
Afua Yorke, PhD
David Aboulafia, MD
Ron Balassanian, MD
Shailender Bhatia, MD
Hala Borno, M.D.
Evan Glazer, MD, PhD, FACS, FSSO
Lia Halasz, MD
Hannah Linden, MD FACP
Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH
Danny Milner, Jr, MD, MSc, MBA
Aparna Parikh, MD
Mark Pegram, MD
Jerald Radich, MD
Michael Schweizer, MD
Robert Smith, PhD
Ulka Vaishampayan, MD
Hala Borno, M.D.
Evan Glazer, MD, PhD, FACS, FSSO
Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH
Danny Milner, Jr, MD, MSc, MBA
Binay Shah, MD, MHA
Umang Swami, MD, MS
Siddhartha Yadav, Siddhartha Yadav, MD, FACP
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
This activity is supported by an independent medical education grant from the following companies:
- Novocure, Inc.
- Exact Sciences
- Gilead Sciences
- Pfizer
Available Credit
- 16.00 ABIM MOC IISuccessful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 16.00 Medical Knowledge points in the American Board of Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
- 16.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The Binaytara Foundation is accredited by the Washington State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Binaytara Foundation designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity meets the criteria for up to 16.00 hours of Category I CME credit to satisfy the relicensure requirements of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission.
- 16.00 Nursing Contact HoursProvider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP17035, for 16.00 Contact Hours.
Price
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CANCELLATION POLICY
Refund Policy
You may cancel your enrollment at any time. Cancellation fees apply as below:
- 50% of the paid registration fee will be refunded if registration is canceled six weeks before the conference.
- No refunds will be issued if registration is canceled after that date.
No credits will be offered if you do not complete all required steps of this activity which include registration, participation in the live activity, and completion of pre & post-tests as well as course evaluations.