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Community Intervention Workshop Presenters |
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July 28th, 1:00PM-4:00PM |
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Suzanne Christopher, Ph.D.Professor of Community Health, Montana State University, Bozeman Suzanne Christopher is Professor in the Department of Health and Human Development. She received her doctorate in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health. Dr. Christopher is on the Coordinating Committee for the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association. The Spirit of 1848 Caucus is devoted to issues of Social Justice in Health. She worked as a Health Education consultant with the Montana Breast and Cervical Health Program from 1995-1997. It was during this time that she began working with Alma Knows His Gun McCormick and members of the Apsáalooke Nation to develop and implement a community-based participatory research program, Messengers for Health. The successes of Messengers lead to another community-based grant, the Center for Native Health Partnerships (CNHP). The mission of CNHP is to change the way that research has historically been conducted with tribal nations by bringing together communities and researchers to establish trust, share power, foster co-learning, enhance strengths and resources, and examine and address community-identified needs and health problems.
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Renee Mahaffey HarrisExecutive Director As the Executive Director of the Center for Closing the Health Gap, Renee Mahaffey Harris has her finger on the pulse of the Greater Cincinnati. Ms. Harris is experienced in community-based programs and grassroots initiatives. She has partnered with the Center’s Founder and CEO in the successful implementation of the Community Based Participatory Research methodology throughout all Center Initiatives. She is a skilled presenter with a rich background in community engagement, economic inclusion, government relations and public affairs. She has been named EBONY magazine’s 50 Leaders of the Future and an Outstanding Young Woman of America. Ms. Harris has served on several boards that promote community solutions to social problems including the YWCA, Greater Cincinnati Boys & Girls Club, the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, the United Way Regional Leadership Team and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Government Affairs Council. As a past vice president of community development, she managed a $74 million residential portfolio and lead campaigns to increase homeownership. Join us as Renee Mahaffey Harris discusses community-based solutions to family obesity and the impact of health related issues in the following targeted populations: African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and White Appalachian in Greater Cincinnati.
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Alma Knows His Gun McCormick (Crow Nation)Montana State University, Bozeman Alma Knows His Gun-McCormick is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Indian Tribe and fluently speaks her language. Her compassion for working with cancer stems from her personal experience of losing her daughter to cancer. From 1996-2000 she was the Outreach Coordinator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Montana Breast and Cervical Health Program. She first conducted outreach education with Apsáalooke Indian women, feeling a breakthrough about the awareness of the importance of the Pap test and mammograms. Later, she provided culturally sensitive education to all Indian women on the seven reservations and in urban Indian clinics in Montana. Alma’s focus has been on women’s cancer prevention and health education with the dream of continuing her work with women on the Crow reservation. She has fulfilled that dream by being the Project Coordinator for the Messengers for Health Program. She is a single mother with two sons, one daughter, and two grandchildren.
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Kristina WaitSenior Director of Health Initiatives and Strategic Planning Kristina Wait is a native of the Metro Nashville area. Kristina attended the University of Mississippi where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in English. While at Ole Miss, Kristina found the passion for public health and community mobilization that she carries with her still today. As a volunteer at the local rape crisis services center, she became an advocate for rape victims. At the time, the University had no official policy on sexual assault. She led efforts among students to institute a first-ever University Sexual Assault Policy. From this experience, Kristina learned the importance of community involvement in pushing for action in order to ensure a better community. Kristina’s volunteer work in the health field as a University of Mississippi student influenced her desire to have a career in public health. After her undergraduate work, Kristina returned home to attend Vanderbilt University where she received her Masters of Education in Health Promotion and Behavior. While in her graduate program, Kristina began her work for the American Cancer Society. She has been committed to supporting the mission of this organization for the past thirteen years. During her career at the American Cancer Society, Kristina has worked in the fight against cancer by organizing individuals to have a voice in local government, mobilizing communities to be empowered to make decisions about their health, building win-win relationships with public health organizations, and being available to serve the needs of volunteers. Her career experiences have included working with community systems, healthcare systems, and government systems. Kristina is currently the Senior Director of Health Initiatives and Strategic Planning. She oversees Health Initiatives strategies impacting communities and the underserved as well as guides the organization in developing strategic and operational plans that have the greatest impact on cancer. |
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Claudia M. Hardy, BA, MPAProgram Director Claudia M. Hardy is the Program Director for the Office of Community Outreach and the Deep South Network for Cancer Control; a five-year funded National Cancer Institute Community Network Program (CNP) awarded to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center. This is the second 5-year community-based, NCI funded program in which Claudia has managed and directed in a senior staff/research capacity. Claudia provides the administrative leadership for this Community-based cancer prevention program that is aimed at eliminating the disparity in cancer death rates between blacks and white in the Deep South. Prior to this appointment, Claudia served as the Coordinator for Community Outreach for the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center division of Cancer Control and Population Science. As Outreach Coordinator, she was responsible for assisting the Associate Director for Community Research and the Cancer Prevention and Control Planning Committee in identifying cancer issues and problems within the community and region; and develops outreach prevention and control programs to address specific needs. Previously, Claudia worked as the Program Manager/Outreach Coordinator for the UAB Continence Program in the Division of Gerontology. Claudia holds a BA in Communication Arts specializing in Public Relations and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) specializing in organizational management and behavior from UAB. In 2007, she was nominated to serve a 3-year term on the Susan G. Komen for the Cure African American National Advisory Council. She also serves on a number of community organization boards, including the Susan G. Komen for the Cure North Central Alabama and Peace Baptist Church Board of Trustees. In addition, she volunteers her time with the American Cancer Society Mid-South Division, The Alzheimer’s Research Center Minority Outreach Committee, United Way of Central Alabama Grants Allocation Committee and other local civic groups. Claudia’s areas of interest and expertise are minority health issues/disparities, (community) organizational development, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), strategic planning, grants administration, group facilitator/trainer, minority recruitment and retention in clinical trails, access/ barriers to health care, program development, special event coordination and consultant to various related health issues. Claudia has trained over 1,000 Community Health Advisors in cancer prevention and control.
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Dr. Eugene Lengerich, VMDEpidemiologist Dr. Eugene Lengerich is an epidemiologist whose research interests include estimating the risk of chronic disease from individual and community factors; examining health disparities by analysis and mapping of health data; and preventing disease and illness through community-based participatory research. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, Association of American Medical Colleges, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Lance Armstrong Foundation. Dr. Lengerich is principal investigator for the Northern Appalachia Cancer Network, a community-academic partnership begun in 1992 to reduce cancer health disparities in rural communities of Pennsylvania and New York. The NACN has published results of community-based interventions that increased mammography use, cancer knowledge, and colorectal cancer survivorship. He has led independent investigations that developed a model, web-based and interactive, state cancer atlas and an open-source, Java-based, geospatial analytic toolkit for epidemiologists and statisticians. Prior to joining the faculty of Penn State University in 1998, Dr. Lengerich was a chronic disease epidemiologist for the state of North Carolina and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has served on state and national committees, including the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics from 2000 to 2004. Dr. Lengerich teaches resident and on-line graduate courses in research methods for epidemiology, public health surveillance, homeland security, and health disparities. Dr. Lengerich received the 2008 PSU Faculty Outreach Award and the 2009 PSU Engaged Scholarship Award. He has over 50 publications in the peer-reviewed literature. |
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Corinne McGown MeliDirector of Administration & Program Coordinator Corinne McGown Meli is the Director of Administration and the Program Coordinator for the Citywide Colon Cancer Control Coalition (C5) for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). Corinne has experience in the non-profit, for-profit and government sectors. Prior to working for the DOHMH, Corinne was the Research Program Coordinator at the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), a non-profit organization that supports Neurofibromatosis research and patient support. Prior to CTF, she held the position of Senior Project Manager at Clinical Advisors, LLC (now Guidepojnt Global), a boutique healthcare consulting firm. Corinne began her career as a Staff Assistant in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington, DC, where she was responsible for constituent correspondence, legislative research and the management of the Senator’s internship program. Corinne received her Masters degree in Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Management from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Health Policy and Management from Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology. While in graduate school, Corinne completed a year-long fellowship with the Advertising Council, where she conducted a “best practices” analysis on effectiveness tracking for public-interest advertising campaigns. |
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July 28th, 1:00PM-4:00PM |
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Jeannette Noltenius, MA. Ph.D.National Director Dr. Jeannette Noltenius is recognized nationally as a leader in the field of Latino and minority health; and an expert in tobacco, alcohol and other drug policy issues. She is also known internationally for her work with the Pan American Health Organization. An immigrant from El Salvador, she obtained a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch College, in Keene, New Hampshire, and then a Masters in Economics and a Doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Paris 1, Sorbonne, in France. Dr. Noltenius has worked in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, and France. She speaks Spanish and French. She is National Director of the National Latino Tobacco Control Network and is Vice President of Strategic Solutions Washington, an independent public health and public policy firm based in Washington, DC. She provides technical assistance; training and strategic planning services on health and health care policy issues to clients nationally and internationally, among them: the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, the Center for Health Improvement, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium, Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center, the Indiana Latino Institute, Adventist Health Care, Prevencion, Inc., and the Summit Health Institute for Research and Education. Her firm works with recent immigrant communities around the world on issues of immigration and refugee policy as well as She was the Executive Director of the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT) from 1996 to 2002. LCAT is a national non-profit organization that combats alcohol and tobacco use in adolescents and adults and addresses the health consequences these products have in the Latino community. Under her direction, LCAT became a national voice on these issues on Capitol Hill. She has helped build Latino leadership nationwide, utilized the media effectively in expanding knowledge of her community most recently concentrating in the US-Mexico border region, the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic states with large Central American and Mexican immigrant populations. Dr. Noltenius is a founding member of the Out of Many, One a multicultural coalition working on a common agenda to address inequities in health and health care in communities of color. She has also worked in community mental health settings utilizing psychodrama with children and families and at a psychiatric hospital and community mental health center. |
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Daniel Bustillos, J.D., Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Heatlh Care Ethics Dan Bustillos is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Ethics, with a secondary appointment in the Saint Louis University’s School of Public Health. He completed his PhD in Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center, and recently finished a postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine as well as the Medical Law and Ethics Fellowship at UTMB. Dr. Bustillos was both an adjunct and research professor at the University of Houston’s Health Law & Policy Institute and has been an Institutional Review Board member for several years. He teaches courses in public health ethics, health equity, informed consent and surrogate decision-making, medical humanities, and cross-cultural understanding in the clinical context. Dr. Bustillos’ research interests are broad though lately he’s been studying health disparities in health care and research. He is currently working on a multi-million dollar project based at Baylor College of Medicine to eliminate disparities in clinical trials.
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Wendy K.D. SeligVice President, External Affairs & Strategic Alliances Wendy K.D. Selig, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, is Vice President of External Affairs & Strategic Alliances for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), where she leads efforts to build alliances with traditional and non-traditional partners. Ms. Selig is charged with bolstering the organization’s advocacy efforts and its visibility within key policy communities, including among corporations, foundations, trade associations and federal agencies. She leads and coordinates the Society’s campaign to bring about change in the health care system and improve access to quality health care. Additionally, she has provided leadership for key collaborative efforts, including One Voice Against Cancer (OVAC), a coalition of more than 40 groups seeking enhanced federal funding for cancer programs. Ms. Selig joined the Society as Managing Director, Federal Government Relations on May 1, 2000 after serving more than 11 years as a senior House staffer on Capitol Hill. Prior to her current role with ACS CAN, she spent four years as the organization’s Vice President for legislative Affairs, serving as the lead federal lobbyist and overseeing all federal, policy and media advocacy activities. During her tenure with the Society and ACS CAN, Ms. Selig has led strategic implementation of federal legislative activities across the cancer agenda, including appropriations and budget, private insurance, Medicare, health disparities and tobacco control. She assists in managing the Society’s overall government relations portfolio, and has been an architect of high profile, broad-based strategies and legislative campaigns to promote the nationwide cancer agenda. She is expert in cancer policy, including a variety of health care issues. In October 2008 she was invited to serve on the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Director’s Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG). Ms. Selig is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University and holds a Masters in Science in Journalism degree (With Distinction) from Northwestern University. She and her husband, Michael, live with their daughter Jessica and son Ryan in McLean, Virginia.
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Clem Bezold, Ph.D.Chairman Clement Bezold, Ph.D. is Chairman of the Institute for Alternative Futures and its for-profit subsidiary Alternative Futures Associates. As a futurist, he has applied visioning techniques and scenarios to help governments on the local, state, and national level as well as internationally. He has also worked with health care systems, health professionals, major voluntary organizations, and corporations in helping them more wisely choose and create the futures they prefer. He is a leading health futurist and key note speaker for health systems, hospitals, government agencies and associations, including the AMA, AHA, the Michigan Hospital Association, Novo Nordisk, the American Cancer Society, and HIMSS. He has led health futures and vision efforts for a wide range of organizations including the World Health Organization, US Federal Agencies (HRSA, CDC, NCHS, FDA, OMH, NIH, DoD), and the US Pharmacopeia (USP). To promote health equity, he has developed and leads the Disparity Reducing Advances Project (DRA Project), with a network of over 60 organizations that work together to accelerate key advances in public health and health care. (www.altfutures.com/draproject) The DRA Project has also held three hill briefings designed to educate congressional staffers on the need to address health disparities and the social determinants of health when drafting health policies. Dr. Bezold has coached many states, local communities and organizations in achieving their vision. These include futures projects for state legislatures, governor’s offices, courts in states and in communities across the US. In supporting foresight in government, Bezold has worked with U.S. governor’s offices, legislatures and courts. Over 30 state court systems have done some type of futures programs, most of which (including Florida, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) have used the vision and training material developed in an IAF project that Bezold led with the National Center for State Courts and the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies. Dr. Bezold has published books and reports on the future of government, the courts, and health care. Books he has authored or edited include Anticipatory Democracy: People in the Politics of the Future and Judging the Future (edited with James Dator). His book (with Rick Carlson and Jonathan Peck), The Future of Work and Health, won American Health Magazine’s Book Award. He is a consulting editor of the Journal of Futures Studies and on the editorial or advisory boards of Technology Forecasting and Social Change, foresight, Futures Research Quarterly. His articles have appeared in The Futurist, Healthcare Forum Journal, Business and Health, Home Care, and Hospital & Health Service Administration. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida, and has taught at the University of Florida, Antioch and American Universities.
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July 29th, 8:00AM-12:00PM |
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Ken PolisseManaging Editor Kenneth Polisse Jr. has a degree in English Writing Arts from Oswego State University and has been working in the newspaper industry since 2001. For the past year and a half he has been the Managing Editor of Indian Country Today, a Native American multi-media publisher that strives to better the lives of indigenous peoples by delivering accurate, relevant, and culturally sensitive content. |
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Vetta Sanders Thompson, Ph.D.Associate Professor Vetta Sanders Thompson (Ph.D., Duke University, 1988) is an Associate Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Service, at Washington University in Saint Louis. She teaches coursed in human diversity, health disparities, and evidence based treatments in mental health. Associate Professor Sanders Thompson is a leading researcher in the areas of racial identity, psychosocial implications of race and ethnicity in health communications, access to health services, and determinates of health and mental health disparities. She has built a unique record of research that combines a sophisticated social science understanding of racial identity, rigorous measurement, and community-based participatory research. Dr. Thompson served as the PI for one of the National Cancer Institute funded St. Louis University 4C (Center for Excellence in Cancer Communication Research) studies. She has received funding from The Society for the psychological Study of Social A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Sanders Thompson is active in numerous professional associations including the American Psychological Association, Missouri Psychological Association, and the Midwest Sociological Society; as well as an associate editor for the journal, Contemporary Psychology.
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Dr. Dirk G. SchroederExecutive Vice-President and Co-Founder, DrTango Inc. Dr. Dirk G. Schroeder is the Executive Vice-President and Co-Founder of DrTango Inc. DrTango’s online marketing, communications and health solutions help managed care organizations, hospitals, and governmental agencies serve the fast-growing Hispanic population. Dr. Schroeder is also an Associate Professor of Global Health at Emory University where his academic efforts focus on improving the nutritional health of Hispanic/Latinos in the U.S. and abroad. He speaks widely on the potential of eHealth to deliver culturally- and linguistically tailored interventions that can narrow the health disparities gap. He is on the board of the Hispanic Health Coalition of Georgia and a technical advisor to HHS and the National Business Group on Health. He is the recipient of a Professor of the Year Award (Emory University), a Fulbright Fellowship (Indonesia), and Future Leaders Award (Dannon Nutrition Institute), among other accolades. He is the author of one book and over 80 scientific articles. Dr. Schroeder has lived and worked in over 75 countries and is fluent in Spanish and Indonesian. He has Doctoral and Masters Degrees in International Nutrition from Johns Hopkins University and a Post-doc from Cornell. He completed his undergraduate work, with honors and distinction, at Stanford University.
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Terri Ades DPN, RNDirector, Cancer Information – Health Promotions Terri Ades is Director of Cancer Information for the American Cancer Society National Headquarters Office in Atlanta. In this position, Terri and her group of oncology physician and nursing staff are responsible for developing and maintaining the cancer information for the Society’s various delivery channels including their National Cancer Information Center, web site, patient education/consumer awareness materials, consumer books, and translations. She also provides clinical oversight to the Society’ call center staff in Austin, Texas who respond to over 1.3 million calls each year and 4,000 monthly emails. When joining ACS, Terri brought 12 years of oncology experience with adults and children from the Medical College of Georgia, Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis; the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and the University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center in Birmingham. Terri recently completed her doctoral degree from the Medical College of Georgia. Her research focuses on health literacy needs of women and mammography decision-making. Terri is certified as an advanced practice oncology nurse and as a family nurse practitioner and continues to devote some time to clinical practice through the Emory Healthcare Winship Cancer Institute. Her clinical interests are in women’s health issues. Recently, she participated in an international program traveling to Cusco, Peru where she and other health professionals provided free women’s health care. She also holds an adjunct faculty position at the Medical College of Georgia.
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Workshop Chairs |
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Molly DanielsVice President, Field Advocacy Molly Daniels is the Vice President for Field Advocacy for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network. She attended the University of Kansas, where she received both her undergraduate and law degrees. Molly spent the first few years out of law school practicing elder law in Kansas. She then moved to Washington DC, where she became interested in grassroots work. Molly ran legislative campaigns for the Older Women’s League and the Long Term Care Campaign, and then spent the next nine years at AARP, where she was the head of AARP’s national grassroots program. Molly left for the American Cancer Society at the beginning of 2001, initially as Grassroots Director. For the last four years, she has been the Vice President for Field Advocacy. In that role, she heads up a team that oversees the organization’s federal grassroots efforts, as well as state and local campaigns. She also oversees all advocacy training. Her team provides policy, campaign and grassroots support and counsel for virtually all of the organization’s advocacy activities. |
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Sharen MuraokaDirector, Policy Sharen Muraoka is currently Policy Director for the American Cancer Society, California Division’s Sacramento-based Government Relations Office. Sharen left the County of Sacramento’s federally-funded job training program to join the American Cancer Society 26 years ago. During her career with the Society, Sharen worked at the community, regional, and state level in various communications and media relations positions. Following her involvement in the successful landmark tobacco tax initiative campaign in 1988–Proposition 99, she moved to the legislative advocacy arena and has worked there ever since. As the Policy Director, Sharen assesses emerging state and local public policy issues according to the policies and positions of the American Cancer Society to inform strategy development; and develops and implements the state legislative agenda. She also staffs the Society’s Cancer & the Environment Team, which advises the organization on environmental issues in the community and in the state legislative arena. Sharen received a BA and MBA from California State University, Sacramento. |
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Pamela Jackson, MSDirector of Special Projects Pam Jackson is the Director of Special Projects of the Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) at Baylor College of Medicine. Ms. Jackson is a faculty member and instructor in the Department of Medicine. The Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) promotes policies, program, partnerships, and research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations in the United Sates and its associated territories. The council’s membership is comprised of major non-profit health organizations, survivors, and advocates for racial and ethnic and medically underserved communities. ICC motto is “Speaking With One Voice”. As part of the planning committee for the Biennial Symposium Series that started in 1987, Ms. Jackson developed the Cancer Education Resources Program and the Student Mentoring Program. During the past 20 years as a health care professional, Ms. Jackson has served as the SW Regional Director of the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer, a National Cancer Institute, Special Population Project at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1989-1995 prior to accepting the Baylor appointment. Ms. Jackson has been appointed to numerous national and state committees such as the Centers for Disease Control National Planning Committee for the Divisions of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control and Cancer Prevention and Control and the Texas Department of State Health Services local Authority Network Advisory Committee. Also, she has served on numerous national boards including, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She received her undergraduate degree from Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio and her graduate degree from Long Island University, Zekendoff Campus, Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Jackson has received numerous honors including, the National Council of Negro Women’s-Community Service Award, The Links, Inc.- Women of the Year in Health, the NBLIC Leadership Award-Tyler, Texas and the Business Professionals of America, Service Award to name only a few. |
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Dearell NiemeyerManaging Director Mission Delivery Initiatives Dearell is the Managing Director for the American Cancer Society’s National Home Office, Health Promotion Department, Mission Delivery Initiatives to promote the prevention and early detection of cancer, and improve the quality of life outcomes for cancer patients and survivors. Dearell earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of Hawaii’s School of Public Health. Prior to joining the American Cancer Society Dearell directed health promotion programs for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University’s School of Public Health, and the California Department of Health Services. |
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Angelina Esparza, MPHDirector, ACS Patient Navigator Program Angelina Esparza is the Director of Patient Navigator Program at the American Cancer Society National Home Office. Since joining the society in 2005, her focus has been devoted to creating the framework and structure to assist ACS Division offices in establishing and developing the ACS Patient Navigator Program. Prior to joining the Society, Ms. Esparza worked at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Center of Research on Minority Health for nine years. During that time she was an active Society volunteer for the Houston metro office, Hi-Tex Division and served on national workgroups. Ms. Esparza received her Bachelor of Arts degree (psychology/anthropology) from the University Of Houston and her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, and she has completed the prestigious “Emerging Leaders in Public Health” fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School and School of Public Health. She received her Master’s of Public Health from the University of Massachusetts- Amherst and is currently enrolled in the Doctorate in Nurse Practice at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. |
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Busola AfolabiMedia Relations Manager Busola Afolabi is a media relations manager in the American Cancer Society National Home Office corporate communications department. She provides media relations counsel on various Society initiatives including health disparities and cancer prevention and early detection. Busola received a bachelor’s degree in journalism – with a concentration in public relations and a minor in political science – from Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta, Georgia, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in public policy from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at GSU. |
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Charlotte HoferPublic Relations Manager Charlotte Hofer is Public Relations Manager for the American Cancer Society in South Dakota. She has 19 awards in communications, including 14 ADDYs for creativity in advertising and 3 Silver Microphone Awards for voice-over talent. She has a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology/Multimedia from the University of Central Florida. Charlotte leads the American Cancer Society’s national media partnership with Indian Country Today to reach 2.6 million people per month. She writes a national monthly column for Indian Country Today. Charlotte served as Production Supervisor for the Society’s new Native American breast cancer video – filmed in South Dakota, and featuring an all-Native American cast. Her hobbies include painting with oil pastels and playing electronic keyboard. |
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