Past Lectures

Date Speaker(s) Presentation Title
January 2019

Andrew Chan, M.D., M.P.H.
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

 Aspirin for the Precision Prevention of Colorectal Cancer
January 2019

Louise M. Henderson, Ph.D.
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

 Advancing a Risk-based Approach for Cancer Screening
November 2018

Barbara S. Norquist, M.D.
University of Washington Medicine, Seattle, WA

 Challenges in the Clinical Management of Women at Risk for Ovarian Cancer
November 2018

Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR

 War on Melanoma: An Oregonian Solution for Cancer Control
October 2018

Patti E. Gravitt, Ph.D., M.S.
GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health

 A Systems Practice Approach to Sustainable Implementation of HPV-based Screening in the Peruvian Amazon
October 2018

Amy Abernethy, M.D., Ph.D.
Flatiron Health

 Research at Scale: Rethinking evidence generation for the 21st Century
September 2018

Brian M. Rivers, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

 A Community-based Translational Research Framework to Address Prostate Cancer Disparities
June 2018

Nickolas Papadopoulos, Ph.D.
Professor of Oncology and Pathology; Director of Translational Genetics; Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics & Therapeutics; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins Institutions, Baltimore, MD

Role of non-Invasive Tests for the Early Detection of Cancer
May 2018

Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA

 Cancer Health Disparities Research: Where have we been and where should we go?
May 2018

Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Cancer Disparities Research; Professor of Oncology, Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Psychological Sciences; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH

 We are Not Hard-to-Reach: Community Competent Research to Address Racial Tobacco-Related Disparities