Past Lectures

Date Speaker(s) Presentation Title
February 2018

Lorna H. McNeill, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Chair, Department of Health Disparities, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX

 Reducing Cancer Health Disparities through Community Engagement: Working with Faith-Based Organizations (Project CHURCH)
February 2018

B.R. Simon Rosser, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health; Director, HIV/STI Intervention & Prevention Studies; University of Minnesota School of Public Health Minneapolis, MN

 The Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatment on the Sexual Behavior of Gay and Bisexual Men: Key Results from the "Restore" Study
February 2018

Katharine L. Nathanson, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA

 From Germline Genetics to Somatic Insights – The Evolving Landscape of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
January 2018

Ali H. Mokdad, Ph.D.
Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives & Professor, Global Health Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington

 Burden of Cancer in the United States: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease
January 2018

Jennifer S. Temel, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Director of Cancer Outcomes Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

 Lecture Cancelled
December 2017

Jada G. Hamilton, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Attending Psychologist and Assistant Member Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Memorial Hospital

 Precision Oncology and Genetic Risk Information: Exploring Patients' Preferences and Responses
October 2017

Jessica Faupel-Badger, Ph.D.
Director, Postdoctoral Research Associate (PRAT) Program. National Institute of General Medical Sciences. National Institutes of Health

 Careers in cancer prevention research - Reflections from a large outcomes evaluation study
October 2017

Tamaro Hudson, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology at Howard University. Health Research Specialist at Washington VA Medical Center

 Utilizing Biomarker Signature Pairs To Develop Gene Therapeutic Viral Delivery Platforms For Treating Prostate Cancer
September 2017

Carol Estwing Ferrans, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Associate Dean for Research Harriet H. Werley Endowed Chair in Nursing Research Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, College of Nursing University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL

 Translating Research into Policy: Reducing Breast Cancer Disparities in Illinois
June 2017

Reginald Tucker-Seeley, Sc.D., Sc.M., M.A.
Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California

 Measuring financial well-being in cancer prevention research: Results from the Money-Health Connection Study