Click here to view Spring Symposium Presentations Every spring, the Hollings Cancer Center hosts a thematic research conference. The 2009 Spring Symposium is hosted by the Cancer Prevention and Control Program and co-sponsored by the South Carolina Alliance for Cancer Chemoprevention. The theme is Cancer Disparities with sessions on Cancer Disparities: Surveying the Landscape, Chemoprevention, and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer: Why is the Burden Higher in African Americans? They Symposium will be held on March 12-13, 2009, at MUSC's Hollings Cancer Center. Thursday, March 12, 2009
5:30pm - 7:30pm Meet the Researcher: Get your questions answered by a panel of cancer experts
*****Refreshments and Door prizes*****
The public is welcome, but you must register by using the link above.
Friday, March 13, 2009
7:30am - 4:00pm
Research Symposium
Targeted toward cancer researchers, disparities researchers, and others interested in these topics such as physicians and other health care professionals, and students. Welcome - Andrew Kraft, MD Director, Hollings Cancer Center (HCC), MUSC
- Anthony Alberg, PhD, MPH HCC Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control, MUSC
- Harris Pastides, PhD, MPH President, University of South Carolina
Cancer Disparities: Surveying the Landscape - Moderator: Marvella Ford, PhD HCC Associate Director for Cancer Disparities, MUSC
- Rick Kittles, PhD The University of Chicago
“Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Prostate Cancer Risk” - Saundra Glover, PhD University of South Carolina
“HPV/Cervical Cancer Disparities in South Carolina: Framing the Issues” - Paul A. Godley, MD, PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Impact of Health Care Access, Utilization, and Knowledge on Disparities in Prostate Cancer Outcomes"
Chemoprevention - Moderator: Michael Wargovich, PhD, FACN Director of HCC Chemoprevention Program, MUSC
- Chinthalapally Rao, PhD University of Oklahoma Health Science Center
“Novel Chemopreventive Strategies for Colorectal Cancer Prevention” - William Blot, PhD Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
“The Southern Community Cohort Study: Investigating Health Disparities”
Epidemiology Colorectal Cancer: Why is the Burden Higher in African Americans? - Moderator: Franklin Berger, PhD Director of the Center for Colon Cancer Research, University of South Carolina
- Vickie Shavers, PhD National Cancer Institute
“Colorectal Cancer Health Disparities” - James Burch, PhD University of South Carolina
“Colorectal Cancer Research at the USC Cancer Prevention & Control Program” - Kristin Wallace, PhD Medical University of South Carolina
“Exploring the Relationship Between Race and Pathways to Colorectal Neoplasia”
Call for Abstracts
Participants (faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students) are encouraged to submit scientific abstracts related to Cancer Disparities, Cancer Chemoprevention, and Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention and Control. Selected abstracts will be presented in poster format and collated in a booklet to be distributed at the conference. Priority will be given to disparities related research. The deadline for abstract submission is February 20, 2009. Abstract Guidelines (Click Here to open document)
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