Mayo Clinic Health Disparities Researchers Featured at Upcoming National Conference

A number of Mayo Clinic health disparities researchers will be featured at the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research's (AACR) 8th Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved.  Sikander Ailawadhi, M.D., will present Outcome Disparities in Multiple Myeloma:  The Role of Race/Ethnicity at Educational Session 3 on Friday, November 13.  At Plenary Session 2 on Saturday, November

14, Celine Vachon, Ph.D., will present Mammography Density:  A Risk Factor for All Breast Cancers or Only Specific Subtypes?  And Andrea Wahner Hendrickson, M.D., will serve as Session Chairperson for Plenary Session 3 on Sunday, November 15, during which she will present Updates in Gynecological Oncology:  The State of Ovarian Cancer Care.  Mayo Clinic will also be well-represented at the Conference Poster Sessions, with submissions from health disparities researchers Carmen Radecki Breitkopf, Ph.D., Wesley

Petersen, Ph.D., Lewis Roberts, M.D., Gerardo Colon-Otero, M.D.,  Tamara Huff, M.D., and Monica Albertie, M.H.A.  Office of Health Disparities Research Program Managers Sumedha Penheiter, Ph.D. and Chara Chamie, M.P.H., will also be in attendance.