2018 CURES/Karmanos Cancer Institute

Population Studies and Disparities Research Program

Thematic Symposium

 

    "The Environment and Cancer Disparities: Complex Interactions

Among Multilevel, Co-Occurring Exposures"

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8:00 AM              Breakfast                                                                                                                                         

 

8:30-8:45 AM    Welcome and Opening Remarks                                                                           

                             Christine Cole Johnson, Ph.D., MPH

                             Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, Annetta R. Kelly Endowed Chair, Henry Ford Hospital and

                             Health System

 

8:45-9:45 AM    Keynote Speaker

                            "The Synergism of Plagues' and its Implications for Control of Communicable and Non-Communicable

                              Diseases"

                             Alexander Tsai, M.D., Ph.D.

                             Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Fellow, Harvard Center for

                             Population and Development Studies

 

9:45-10:00 AM   Break

 

10:00-11:00 AM Keynote Speaker

                              "Histologic and Molecular Studies of Environmental Influences on Benign Breast"

                              Melissa Troester, Ph.D.

                              Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Research Associate Professor Department of Pathology and

                              Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 

 

11:00-11:20 AM "A dangerous place to breath: The call for clean air in Detroit"

                              Melissa Sargent

                              Green Living Resources Director, Ecology Center

 

11:20-12:30 PM Lunch   

                                                                                                                                               

12:30-1:30 PM  Keynote Speaker

                            "The Mammary Gland: A Sensitive Target to Environmental Endocrine Disruptors" 

                             Susan Fenton, Ph.D.

                             Leader of the Reproductive Endocrinology Group National Toxicology Program Laboratory, NIEHS  

 

1:30-1:50 PM    "Environment and Epigenetics in Lung Cancer"

                             Fei Chen, Ph.D.

                             Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and

                             Health Sciences, Wayne State University

                            

1:50-2:00 PM     Break

 

2:00-2:20 PM     "DNA adducts in Prostate Carcinogenesis: The Complex Interaction of Race and Environment in Evaluating

                             Prostate Cancer Risk"

                             Benjamin Rybicki, Ph.D.

                             Senior Research Scientist, Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health System

                         

2:20--2:40 PM   "Co-Occurring Comorbidities Over Time: Using Integrative Data Analysis to Study Cancer Survivorship Outcomes"

                             Terrance Albrecht, Ph.D.

                             Associate Center Director, Population Sciences Karmanos Cancer Institute, Professor and Division Director,

                             Population Sciences Department of Oncology, Wayne State School of Medicine

 

2:40-2:50 PM     Wrap-up