2024 FLASCO Cancer Disparities & Health Equity Summit
Start: November 8, 2024 7:30 AM (ET) End: November 9, 2024 3:45 PM (ET) SCHEQ is attending and speaking at the 4th Florida Society of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO) Cancer Disparities & Health Equity Summit. This time it was in Tampa, as compared to South Florida. Equal access to care, equal outcomes, and representative biomarker testing […]
Voices of Healing: Health Equity, Veterans, and Cancer Care Symposium
SCHEQ Founder and CEO, Dr. Eugene Manley Jr, will be joining Rochelle Prosser of Orchid Health Care Solutions and Jami Raishbrook of JL Innovative Concepts to discuss Health Equity, Veterans, and Cancer 11/6/2024 at 7 PM (ET). Mike Ashabraner at the Hounds of Business Community will be Moderating the discussion. Rochelle will be discussing unique […]
Advancing Precision Medicine Annual Conference 2024
Start: November 1, 2024 7:30 AM (ET) End: November 2, 2024 5:00 PM (ET) The event will will be held at the Philadelphia Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia. It will consist of two parallel tracks composed of keynote addresses, panel discussions and fireside chats which will encourage audience participation. Over the course of the two-day […]
RESCUE LUNG SOCIETY 2024 Conference
October 25, 2024 – October 26, 2024 Start: October 25, 2024 7:00 AM (ET) End: October 26, 2024 4:00 PM (ET) This year’s theme is for the Rescue Lung Society Annual Conference is – Lung Cancer Screening Today and Tomorrow. The conference agenda includes speaker and panel discussions on CT lung screening in clinical practice, […]
SCHEQ Presents at NYU College and Career Pratice Lab
SCHEQ Founder and CEO, Eugene Manley, Jr., PhD, presented to the students on 10/19/2024 as part of NYU’s College & Career Lab (CCL) Practice Lab at the Silver Center for Arts and Science. The CCL is a tuition free , six-year program offered to New York City middle and high school to give them exposure […]
Luis Federico Leloir, MD
Dr. Luis Federico Leloir was a biochemist and he was the third Argentinian to win a Nobel Prize. He discovered sugar nucleotides and their role in metabolism and energy storage.
Helen Rodriguez-Trias, MD
Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias was a physician, public health expert, women’s rights activist, and the first Latina leader of the American Public Health Association. She used the experiences of bias and racism that she observed to drive her activism in women’s health and helping disadvantaged populations.
José Celso Barbosa, MD
Dr. José Barbosa was the first Afro-Puerto Rican to obtain a MD in the US and was considered the “Father of Puerto Rico Statehood Movement’. He served the poor, taught medicine, created a collective, and established a healthcare insurance program.
Alonzo Atencio, PhD
Dr. Alonzo Atencio was known as the Godfather of Minority Medical Education through his efforts to increase recruitment of diverse scholars and the founding of SACNAS.
Ynés Mexia
Ynés Enriquetta Julietta Mexía (1870-1938) was a pioneering botanist and contributed immensely to the field. She was born May 24th, 1870, in Washington D.C., while her father worked as a representative for the Mexican consulate. She moved every few years or so from Texas to Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Mexico until the death of her first […]