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Saturday, September 21

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Tuesday, September 24

Friday, September 20

(Pre-Conference Activity) Special Program for High School Students: The Conquest of Cancer and the Next Generation of Cancer Researchers 

9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. | Catalina Ballroom | Not CME-eligible

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Saturday, September 21

AACR Undergraduate Student Caucus and Poster Competition (Pre-Conference Activity) 

9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. | San Diego Ballroom| Not CME-eligible

Session Chair: Brian M. Rivers, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia   

This program provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn about the exciting research being conducted in the cancer field, hear from investigators about educational pathways and career development, explore various career options in the cancer field, and compete for prizes while presenting their research.

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1:30-7 p.m. | California Foyer

WELCOME AND OPENING Session

4-6 p.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom |CME Eligible

  • 4-4:45p.m. | Scientific Keynote: Addressing the grand challenge of cancer disparities: Progress, challenges, and the path forward
    Melissa B. Davis, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 4:50-5:05 p.m. | Advocate Keynote
    Ricki Fairley, TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance, Annapolis, Maryland
  • 5:10-5:55 p.m. | AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Moving upstream to address cancer health disparities
    Scarlett L. Gomez, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Minorities in Cancer Research (MICR) Meet and Greet

6-7 p.m. | Beaudry B | Not CME-eligible

Poster Session A and Opening Reception

7-8:30 p.m. | Pasadena | Not CME-eligible

Sunday, September 22

Breakfast and Professional Networking Roundtables

7-8 a.m. | Pasadena | Not CME-eligible

Plenary Session 1: Structural Racism: Unraveling the Complex Web from Society’s Structures to Biological Pathways

8-9:30 a.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | CME-eligible

Session Chairs: Chanita Hughes-Halbert, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; and Lauren E. McCullough, Emory University and American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia

  • 8-8:20 a.m. | Constructing a multidimensional measure of structural racism
    Lauren Barber, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 8:20-8:40 a.m. | Investigating inequities in cancer care: What’s structural racism got to do with it?
    Cleo A. Ryals, Flatiron Health, Forest, Virginia
  • 8:40-9 a.m. | Assessing the impact of structural racism on prostate cancer aggressiveness and mortality
    Mindy C. Hebert-DeRouen, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Break

9:30-10 a.m. | California Foyer

Special Session: Advances in Early Detection and Screening

Organized by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)

10 – 11:30 a.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | Not CME-eligible

Session Chair: John D. Carpten, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California

  • 10:05-10:20 a.m. | SU2C Lung Cancer Health Equity Research
    Robert Winn, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia
  • 10:20-10:35 a.m. | SU2C Gastric Cancer Interception Research Team: Disparities in the prevention and early detection of gastric cancer
    Andrew Chan, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 10:35 -10:50 a.m. | SU2C Colorectal Cancer Health Equity Dream Team: Community Collaboration to Advance Racial/Ethnic Equity in CRC Screening (CARES)
    Folasade P. May, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Culver City, California
  • 10:50- 11:05 a.m. | Pancreatic Cancer Collective Research Team
    Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 11:05- 11:25 a.m. | Panelists:
    John Carpten, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California
    Andrew Chan, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
    Ivis Febus-Sampayo, Project Disrupt, Disrupt Project, Winter Garden, Florida
    Folasade P. May, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Culver City, California
    Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
    Aki Smith, Hope For Stomach Cancer, Marina Del Rey, California
    Robert Winn, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia

Concurrent Sessions 1 and 2

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | CME Eligible

Concurrent Session 1: Structural Racism and Cancer Disparities (Companion Session to the Plenary)

Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom

Session Chairs: Chanita Hughes-Halbert, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; and Lauren E. McCullough, Emory University and American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia

  • 11:30-11:45 a.m. | Translational research in social determinants of cancer health disparities
    Chanita Hughes-Halbert, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
  • 11:45 a.m.-12 p.m. | A mixed methods approach to understand social and structural drivers of breast cancer disparities
    Lauren E. McCullough, Emory University and American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
  • An interplay between social and structural drivers of health and stress in cancer outcomes inequities       
    Adana A.M. Llanos, Columbia University, New York, New York  

Concurrent Session 2: Minority Stress and Cancer Disparities: Pathways, Theories, and Mechanisms of Action

San Diego Ballroom

Session Chairs: Marvin E. Langston, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; and Justin X. Moore, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

  • 11:30-11:45 a.m. | Understanding minority stress as an underlying mechamism of health disparities fro sexual and gender minority people
    Annesa Flentje, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 11:45 a.m.-12 p.m. | Individual and system-level interventions to improve cancer care for sexual and gender
    minority people
    Charles Kamen, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
  • 12-12:15 pm. | People of Color don’t get a fair shake in cancer care, but we know how to intervene to correct this
    Jamil Rivers, The Chrysalis Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



Professional Advancement for Cancer Disparities Researchers 1

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Professional Advancement Session: A Long Winding Road – Navigating the Path Toward Success in Cancer Disparities Research

Presented by Minorities in Cancer Research

12:30-2:30 p.m. | San Diego Ballroom | Not CME-eligible

Session Chairs: Jose G. Trevino II, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia and Valerie Odero-Marah, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland

Lunch on own

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Plenary Session 2: New Cancer Cohorts

2:30-4 p.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | CME Eligible

Session Chair: Scarlett L. Gomez, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

  • 2:30-2:50 p.m. | ASPIRE Cohort
    Scarlett L. Gomez, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 2:50-3:10 p.m. | VOICES Study
    Lauren E. McCullough, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 3:10-3:30 p.m. | MI-CARES: The Michigan Cancer and Research on the Environment Study
    Celeste Leigh Pearce, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • 3:30-4 p.m. | Panelists:
    Breana Berry, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
    Mary Anne Foo, Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Garden Grove, California
    Scarlett L. Gomez, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
    Lauren E. McCullough, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
    Celeste Leigh Pearce, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Concurrent Sessions 3 and 4

4-5 p.m.  | CME Eligible

Concurrent Session 3: Financial Toxicity, Persistent Poverty, and Cancer Disparities in Underserved Communities

Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom

Session Chair: Margaret I. Liang, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California , and Matthew P. Banegas, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California

  • 4:05-4:17 p.m.  | The context that contributes to racial disparities in financial toxicity fo cancer
    patients: Challenges to affordability in the Deep South
    Maria Pisu, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
  • 4:17-4:29 p.m. | Affordability and receipt of BRCA testing among ovarian cancer patients
    Tomi Akinyemiju, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
  • 4:29-4:41 p.m. | Addressing financial toxicity among diverse cancer survivors
    Stephanie Wheeler, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Concurrent Session 4: Translating Cancer Research to Service and Outreach in American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Populations

San Diego Ballroom

Session Chairs: Rodney C. Haring, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York; and Kekoa Taparra, Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California

  • 4-4:10 p m. | Justice for the invisible: Cancer at the intersection of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander and sexual gender minorities
    Raynald Samoa, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California
  • 4:10-4:20 p.m. | From patient to advocate: A personal story of roots, resilience, and research
    Eric Pineda, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 4:20-4:30 p.m.
    Dorothy A. Rhoades, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • 4:30-4:40 p.m. | Two-Row Wampum and Indigenous cancer health
    Marissa Haring, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York

Special Session: Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos: Creating a Network of Researchers, Clinicians, and Community Advocates

Organized by Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos (ASCL)

5-6 p.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | Not CME-eligible

Session Chair: Nicolette Orozco, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

  • 5-5:10 p.m.
    Katherine Tossas, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia
  • 5:10-5:20 p.m.
    Mateo P. Banegas, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
  • 5:20-5:30 p.m.
    Mariana Stern, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
  • 5:30-5:40 p.m..
    Alejandro Recio-Boiles, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona
  • 5:40-5:50 p.m.
    Barbara Segarra-Vasquez, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Hot Topics and Recent Discoveries 1 and 2: Presentations from the Top-Rated Abstracts

6-7 p.m. | CME-eligible

Hot Topics and Recent Discoveries 1: Presentations from the Top-Rated Abstracts

Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom

Session Chair: Valerie Odero-Marah, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland

  • 6-6:10 p.m. | A comparison of modeling approaches to assess the interplay of social, behavioral, and environmental factors on lung cancer racial disparities
    Melinda C. Aldrich, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
  • 6:15-6:25 p.m. | County-level food insecurity and hepatocellular carcinoma risk: A cross-sectional analysis
    Rebecca D. Kehm, Columbia University, New York, New York
  • 6:30-6:40 p.m. | Differential gene expression analysis comparing Black and White Patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma reveals suppressed immune response and higher rates P16/HPV DNA discordance in Black patients
    Tammara L. Watts, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Hot Topics and Recent Discoveries 2: Presentations from the Top-Rated Abstracts

San Diego Ballroom

Session Chair: Sharon R. Harrison, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • 6-6:10 p.m. | Association of multi-level stress-related determinants with the local and systemic tumor immune environment in Black and White women with breast cancer
    Alexandra R. Harris, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
  • 6:15-6:25 p.m. | Impact of the Affordable Care Act on receipt of guideline-concordant care for colon cancer
    Sriya Kudaravalli, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 6:30-6:40 p.m. | Racial and ethnic differences in the biological signatures of breast tumors and the immune-microenvironment: The Multiethnic Cohort Study
    Lenora WM. Loo, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Poster Session B and Reception

7-8:30 p.m. | Pasadena | Not CME-eligible

Monday, September 23

Breakfast and Professional Networking Roundtables

7-8 a.m. | Pasadena | Not CME-eligible

Plenary Session 3: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Addressing Cancer Disparities


8-9:30 a.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | CME-eligible

Session Chair: Nyasha Chambwe, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York

  • 8-8:20 a.m.
    Kingsley I. Ndoh, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • 8:20-8:40 a.m. | Elevating precision medicine with AI: Disproportionate benefits of multiomic integration for underserved communities
    David W. Craig, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States
  • 8:40-9 a.m. | Inclusive biomarkers: Bridging racial gaps in precision oncology
    Sandeep Singhal, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Break

9:30-10 a.m. | California Foyer

Town Hall: Utilizing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Improved Cancer Research and Cancer Care: Tangible Examples and Supporting Metrics

10-11:30 a.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | CME Eligible

Session Chairs: Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, UC Davis, Davis, California; and Naoto T. Ueno, University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

  • 10-10:10 a.m. | Advancing cancer health equity while DEI is under attack
    Maria Elena Martinez, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, San Diego, California
  • 10:10-10:20 a.m. | Opportunities in global health to enhance breast cancer disparities research
    Lisa A. Newman, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
  • 10:20-10:30 a.m. | Diversity, equity, and inclusion: Transformative change
    Neal A. Palafox, John A. Burns Sch. of Med. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Panel Discussion

Educational Sessions 1 and 2

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | CME-eligible

Educational Session 1: Best Practices for Using AI and Big Data to Address Cancer Disparities (Companion Session to the Plenary)

Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom

Session Chairs: Nyasha Chambwe, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York

  • 11:30-11:45 a.m. | Best practices for using AI and big data to address cancer disparities
    Benjamin Chin-Yee, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
  • 11:45 a.m.-12 p.m.
    Nyasha Chambwe, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York
  • 12-12:30 p.m. | Group Q&A/Discussion

Educational Session 2: : Building Academic Success: Unspoken Truths and Strategic Planning in your Early-Career

San Diego Ballroom

Session Chairs: Aldenise P. Ewing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and Dede K. Teteh-Brooks, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

  • 11:30-11:40a.m.  | Building academic success: Unspoken truths and strategic planning
    Sora Park Tanjasiri, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
  • 11:40-11:50 a.m. | Building a balanced academic life: Three key strategies for unlocking early-career success
    Jasmine Abrams, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
  • 11:50 a.m.-12 p.m. | From a K award to faculty: Some important steps and things to consider in the journey
    Jelani C. Zarif, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 12-12:30 p.m. | Group Q&A/Discussion

Professional Advancement for Cancer Disparities Researchers 2

Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials: Career Development Award

12:30-1 p.m. | Mt. Washington | Not CME-eligible

  • Joy L. Jones, Executive Director, Winn Awards, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia
  • Robert Winn, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia

Professional Advancement Session: Avoiding Barriers that Hinder Career Development

Presented by Women in Cancer Research

1-2:30 p.m. | San Diego Ballroom | Not CME-eligible

Session Chairs: Beverly D. Lyn-Cook, FDA-National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arkansas; and Mariana C. Stern, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California

Lunch on own

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Advances In Omics in Cancer Disparities: From Biology to Therapies

2:30-4 p.m. |Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom| CME Eligible

Session Chairs: Jasmine Plummer, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis Tennessee; and Colin D. Weekes, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

  • 2:30-2:50 p.m. | Subtyping social determinants of health in All of Us: From AI to advocacy
    Suresh K. Bhavnani, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
  • 2:50-3:10 p.m. | Sequencing of tumors from patients with African ancestry reveals differences in clinically relevant alterations across common cancers
    Jian Carrot-Zhang, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
  • 3:10-3:30 p.m. | Mayo Clinic Data Disparities Project: Analytical mitigation of quantitative and qualitative data disparity in cancer
    Yan Asmann, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
  • 3:30-4 p.m. | Group Q&A/Discussion

Concurrent Sessions 5 and 6

4-5 p.m. | CME Eligible

Concurrent Session 5: Multilevel Interventions to Achieve Representation in Clinical Trials and Cancer Research

Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom

Session Chairs: Jaclyn M. Hall, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida; and Richard J. Lee, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

  • 4-4:10 p.m. | Using electronic health records to facilitate clinical trial participation by underrepresented groups
    Elizabeth A. Shenkman, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
  • 4:10-4:20 p.m. | Clinical trials recruitment: Narrowing the disparity gap
    Ulka N. Vaishampayan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • 4:40-5 p.m.  |  Group Q&A/Discussion

Concurrent Session 6: Community Engagement: Patient-driven Solutions to Overcoming Barriers in Health Equity

San Diego Ballroom

Session Chairs: Lourdes A. Baezconde-Garbanati, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California; and Folakemi T. Odedina, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jacksonville, Florida

  • 4-4:10 p.m. | Striving for precision personal health and community health through community engagement
    Folakemi T. Odedina, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jacksonville, Florida
  • 4:10-4:20 p.m. | Patient-driven solutions to overcoming barriers in health equity: Lessons from the field in Los Angeles
    Lourdes A. Baezconde-Garbanati, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California
    Rhonda Holbert, Celebrate Life Cancer Ministry, Hawthorne, California
  • 4:20-4:30 p.m.  | Transforming care for sexual and gender diverse (SGD) patients:
    Community-engaged research initiatives
    Elizabeth J. Cathcart-Rake, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota
  • 4:30-5 p.m. | Panelists:
    Rhonda Holbert, Celebrate Life Cancer Ministry, Hawthorne, California
    Cher Thomas, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Phoenix, Arizona

Advocacy at the Bench: Diverse Voices of Cancer Survivorship

Organized by Patient Advocacy and Engagement in the Office of Science Policy and Government Affairs

5-6 p.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | Not CME-eligible

Session Chair: Kimlin Tan Ashing, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California

An interdisciplinary team science approach to cancer survivorship research that is informed by the voices of community members, such as patient advocates, promises to improve health care and health status for racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations. During this session advocates will provide practical insights on how the research community can optimize patient engagement in cancer research.

  • 5:05-5:20 p.m.  | Introductions
    John McCall, The Bethel Church, Pasadena, California
    Rhonda M. Smith, California Black Health Network, Sacramento, California
    Jason Diaz, Hope for Stomach Cancer, Marina Del Rey, California
    Nackie Fiso-Moli, PasifikaByDesign, Fairfield California
    Anna Knight, California Area Indian Health Service, Sacramento, California
  • 5:20-6 p.m. | Panel Discussion

Hot Topics and Recent Discoveries 3 and 4: Presentations from the Top-Rated Abstracts

6-7 p.m. | CME Eligible

Hot Topics and Recent Discoveries 3: Presentations from the Top-Rated Abstracts

Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom

Session Chair: Nadine J. Barrett, Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center, Winston Salem,  North Carolina

  • 6-6:10 p.m. | Gut microbiome differences across race, ethnicity, and area level deprivation among patients undergoing colorectal cancer screening in Federally Qualified Health Centers
    Stephanie Hogue, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
  • 6:15-6:25 p.m. | Investigating the interplay among allostatic load, social determinants of health, and treatment outcomes in chronic myeloid leukemia patients
    Marisol Miranda-Galvis, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia
  • 6:30-6:40 p.m. | Social and Structural Influences of Preventive Cancer Screenings for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Adults in Hawaiʻi
    Mark L. Willingham Jr., University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Hot Topics and recent discoveries 4: Presentations from the Top- Rated Abstracts

Session Chairs: Jasmine A. McDonald, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York and Jason A. White, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

San Diego Ballroom

  • 6-6:10 p.m. | Glycemic control and risk of prostate cancer morality in Veterans with diabetes
    Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
  • 6:15-6:25 p.m. | Increasing risk of prostate cancer with successive generations in the US among Latino men in the Multiethnic Cohort
    Fei Chen, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
  • 6:30-6:40 p.m. | Cancer Incidence in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) – The Onco-SOL Ancillary Study
    Humberto Parada, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
  • 6:45-6:55 p.m. | Do U.S. quitsites present information related to providing services for LGBTQ individuals? An audit study
    Jeffrey Wilmer Ramos Santiago, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York

Poster Session C and Reception

7-8:30 p.m. | Pasadena | Not CME-eligible

Tuesday, September 24

Breakfast and Professional Networking Roundtables

7-8 a.m. | Pasadena | Not CME-eligible

Plenary Session 5: The Science of Cancer Survivorship

8-9:30 a.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | CME-eligible

Session Chairs: Arnethea L. Sutton, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; and Jacqueline B. Vo, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

  • 8-8:15 a.m | Promoting disability equity across the cancer care continuum
    Susan Magasi, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • 8:15-8:30 a.m. | Impact of residing in ethnic enclaves on cancer among Asian American and Latino populations
    Salma Shariff-Marco, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • 8:30-8:45 a.m. | Grateful strides toward spiritual well-being and exercise self-efficacy for Black breast cancer survivors
    Lakeshia Cousin, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, Florida
  • 8:45-9 a.m. | Charting the journey: Enhancing breast cancer survivorship while confronting healthcare disparities for Black and Brown women
    Christina Mackey, Tigerlily Foundation, Houston, Texas

Break

9:30-10 a.m. | California Foyer

Plenary Session 6: Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Cancer Disparities

10-11:30 a.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom |CME Eligible

Session Chairs: Leticia M. Nogueira, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia; and Melissa M. Smarr, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland

  • 10-10:20 a.m.  
    Leticia M. Nogueira, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 10:20-10:40 a.m. | Intersecting threats: Climate change, air pollution, and structural inequities
    Christine Ekenga, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 10:40-11 a.m. | Impact of climate change on mortality: The Multiethnic Cohort Study
    Iona C. Cheng, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Closing Remarks

11:30-11:45 a.m. | Sacramento / San Francisco / San Jose Ballroom | Not CME-eligible

  • Melissa B. Davis, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Carmen E. Guerra, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Adana A.M. Llanos, Columbia University, New York, New York