2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit Discussion
Eugene Manley, Jr, PhD, SCHEQ (STEMM & Cancer Health Equity) Founder & CEO, recently spoke with Jill Squire on Episode 36 of the Everything Cancer Podcast. In this conversation we discussed the 2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit that will be held at PCOM -Georgia Nov 18-19, 2024. The goal of this summit is to […]
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde was born in Panama in 1920 before immigrating to San Antonio, Texas, in 1945. She earned a nursing diploma from San Antonio’s Medical and Surgical Hospital School of Nursing (1948). There she began to recognize the disproportionately low number of Hispanic nurses and found that it impacted care delivery for Hispanic patients. […]
2024 National Medical Association (NMA) Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly
August 3, 2024 – August 7, 2024 Start: August 3, 2024 7:30 AM (ET) End: August 7, 2024 1:30 PM (ET) SCHEQ will be attending the 2024 NMA Annual Convention in New York. This year’s theme is – “The Quest for Healthcare Transformation”. The NMA was founded in 1895 and is the oldest association of Black […]
2nd Health Equity in Clinical Trials Congress
The 2nd Health Equity in Clinical Trials Congress will take place at the Westin Hotel on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. It is a great event to learn about community engagement, increasing clinical trial diversity, barriers to trials, and interventions that are successful.
Dr. May Edward Chinn
Dr. May Edward Chinn was the first African American woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College and was advocate for poor patients. She was born in MA but grew up in New York City.
FLASCO Cancer Disparities & Health Equity Summit
We are honored to be attending and speaking on a panel at the 2023 FLASCO Cancer Disparities & Health Equity Summit in Hollywood, FL from November 3-4, 2023. Our panel is called “How We Can Use Social Media to Cause and Impact in Education & Other Aspects of Cancer Disparities”. It will be moderated by […]
Detroit Lung Cancer Screening Listening Session
Dr. Manley was a virtual panelist along with Dr. Jamie Studs at the Lung Cancer Screening Listening Session with Hope Village Revitalization community organization. Hope Village is a neighborhood in Detroit that is adjacent to where Dr. Manley grew up. As part of this listening session, we discussed lung cancer risk factors, lung cancer screening, […]