STRONGER TOGETHER
Cancer Health Equity Summit

For Healthcare Professionals

Join Wellness House and UI Health to Combat Cancer Health Inequities

Friday, June 14, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Registration Required

University of Illinois-College of Medicine Faculty Alumni Lounge 1853 W. Polk Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60612

Calling all professionals interested in fostering education, collaboration, and generating solutions to address local disparities in cancer care.

This summit, co-hosted by Wellness House and the University of Illinois Cancer Center, aims to unite Chicago area cancer health equity leaders across institutions to share new findings on the origin of cancer health disparities and collectively shine a light on innovative solutions to address inequities in cancer care.  We proudly present Keynote Speaker Otis W. Brawley, MD, MACP, FRCP(L), FASCO, FACE, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and other expert speakers in the field of cancer health equity.

You will be given the opportunity to engage in Cancer Health Disparities Interest Groups and establish aims and action items to move the dial for equitable solutions in Chicago and beyond. There will be immersive mini-sessions of psychosocial support. Lunch will be provided.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Otis W. Brawley, MD, MACP, FRCP(L), FASCO, FACE is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He is an authority on cancer screening and prevention and leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort focused on cancer health disparities at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Brawley is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and one of the few physicians to be named a Master of the American College of Physicians. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.  

Dr. Brawley is a graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at Case-Western Reserve University and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. He is board-certified in Internal medicine and medical oncology. 

SUMMIT SCHEDULE

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Registration/Coffee and Breakfast
9:35 – 9:45 a.m.
Summit Welcome Remarks – Lisa Kolavennu, CEO, Wellness House
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Otis Brawley, MD, MACP, FRCP(L), FASCO, FACE
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 – 11:25 a.m.
Presenter
11:30 – 11:55 a.m.
Presenter
12:00 – 12:25 p.m.
Presenter

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
LUNCH

1:35 – 3:00
Break Out Groups (sign up for your area of interest on on the registration form)

3:05 – 3:15
Closing Remarks

REGISTER HERE

STRONGER TOGETHER - Cancer Health Equity Summit

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