2024 Achieving Health Equity in Cancer Care: Strategies to Enhance Care Delivery and Healthcare Workforce Diversity — On Demand

Friday, November 29, 2024, 8:00 AM - Saturday, August 30, 2025, 11:00 PM

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and MediSys Health Network are pleased to present a complimentary on-demand version of the 2024 Achieving Health Equity in Cancer Care conference, originally held live on November 15, 2024. This dynamic annual program unites leading experts across diverse fields, institutions, and specialties to share strategies for improving health equity in communities underserved by limited access to healthcare.

The 2024 conference featured speakers from various institutions—including the National Institutes of Health, the New York City Department of Health, academic centers, and community hospitals—to share their diverse perspectives and expertise, highlighting many different ways to improve health equity within individual practices and institutions. Session topics included innovative ways to deliver healthcare to communities that are underserved, workforce diversification, clinical trial diversification, and innovation in tobacco cessation and lung cancer screening. For more information about the program, including a full list of faculty and presentations, view the brochure from the live conference.

This complimentary program is open to all healthcare professionals interested in advancing health equity, including physicians, advanced practice providers, trainees, nurses, patient navigators, social workers, and case managers.

1. Discuss current and ongoing work being done in various health equity initiatives
2. Strategize how to implement health equity programs in their own practice
3. Describe how various institutions are tackling the same health equity initiatives

This complimentary on-demand activity is open to everyone. Registration is required to access the course materials. To enroll and begin, select the 'Course Content' tab at the top of the page. Registration, course content access, and the ability to claim credit are available through May 31, 2025.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Recorded/Review Date: November 15, 2024 | Original Release Date: November 29, 2024 | Termination Date: May 31, 2025

 

Conference Director

Rosa Nouvini, MD
Assistant Attending
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hematology/Oncology Site Director, Jamaica Hospital

 

Conference Planning Committee

Fiyinfolu Balogun, MD, PhD
Assistant Attending, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Christopher M. Brooks, MS
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Acute Care Services
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Joshua A. Budhu, MD, MS, MPH
Assistant Attending, Brain Tumor Service
Department of Neurology
Nicholls-Biondi Diversity Clinical Scientist Faculty Scholar
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Debyani Chakravarty, PhD
Assistant Attending, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Service
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Rosario Costas-Muñiz, PhD
Assistant Attending
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Meghan McDarby, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Catherine Oberg, MD
Assistant Attending, Pulmonary Service
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

David G. Pfister, MD
Associate Deputy Physician-in-Chief, Strategic Partnerships
Attending, Head and Neck Oncology Service
Department of Medicine 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sabiha Raoof, MD, FACR, FCCP
Chief Medical Officer
Chair of Radiology
MediSys Health Network 

Moneeza Walji, MD
Assistant Attending, Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

 

Invited Faculty

Brenda Adjei, EdD, MPA
Associated Director, Office of Healthcare Delivery and Equity Research
Center for Cancer Research, Office of the Clinical Director
National Cancer Institute 
Bethesda, MD

Nikisha Alcindor, MBA
President and Founder
STEM Educational Institute 
New York, NY

Tamara Cadet, PhD, LICSW, MPH
Associate Director, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I)
Director, Program in Community Engagement Innovation, PC3I
Philadelphia, PA

Curtiland Deville Jr., MD
Medical Director
Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center
Baltimore, MD

Bruce Flanz, MBA
President and CEO 
Medisys Health Network 
New York, NY

Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP
Ruth C. and Raymond G. Perelman Professor
Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Medicine 
Associate Director of Diversity and Outreach, Abramson Cancer Center 
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Heather Mattie, PhD, SM, MS
Lecturer on Biostatistics
Co-Director of the Health Data Science Master's Program
Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) Programs 
Department of Biostatistics 
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 
Boston, MA

Joan Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
Dean of Diversity and Community Partnership 
Professor, Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA

Alan Roth, DO, FAAFP, FAAHPM
Chairman, Department of Family Medicine
Chief, Department of Integrative Pain and Palliative Care Medicine 
MediSys Health Network
New York, NY

Achala Talati, DO, MS, MPH
Director of Tobacco Policy and Programs, Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention
Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Luigi Tullo, MD, FAAFP
Vice Chair, Department of Ambulatory Care
Medical Director, Division of Population Health
Medisys Health Network
New York, NY

Robert A. Winn, MD
Director and Lipman Chair in Oncology
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Senior Associate Dean for Cancer Innovation 
Professor of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
VCU School of Medicine
Richmond, VA

 

MSK Faculty 

Gleneara Bates-Pappas, PhD, LMSW
Fellow, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Alexis Chidi, MD, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Attending, Thoracic Service 
Department of Surgery

Robert Daly, MD, MBA
Assistant Attending, Thoracic Oncology Service
Department of Medicine

Francesca Gany, MD, MS
Chief, Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service
Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Community Health Equity

Michelle Johnson, MD, MPH
Vice Chair of Health Equity, Department of Medicine

Jamie Ostroff, PhD
Chief, Behavioral Sciences Service
Joseph Gaumont Chair of Cancer Prevention

Selwyn Vickers, MD, FACS
President and CEO 

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. 
In accordance with the ACCME's Standards, identification, mitigation and/or disclosure of financial relationships is not needed for non-clinical accredited education. 

The content of this activity is non-clinical.