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2024 Marvin Zelen Symposium: Health Disparities and Cancer

April 5 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

Friday April 5, 2024
1:00-5:00PM ET

Yawkey Conference Center
450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA
In-person event only, the recording will be available post-event.

Registration for in person attendance.

Invited speakers:

  • Adewole Adamson, MD, MPP, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, “AI and Melanoma Disparities”
  • Cynthia Dwork,PhD, Harvard University, “Individuals, Groups, Indistinguishability, and Loss: 15 Years of Algorithmic Fairness in 20 Minutes”
  • Nate Fillmore,PhD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, “Health Disparities and Cancer in the National VA Healthcare System”
  • Carmen E. Guerra, MD, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania, “The (Mis)use of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research”
  • Jinani Jayasekera, PhD, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, “Personalized Clinical Decision Tools to Support Equitable Breast Cancer Care”
  • Bogdan Pasaniuc,PhD, University of California Los Angeles, “Polygenic risk scoring in personalized medicine: promises and challenges”

Details

Date:
April 5
Time:
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Event Category:

Venue

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1 Jimmy Fund Way
Boston, MA 02215 United States
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Other

Twitter Hashtag:
#zelen2024

Details

Date:
April 5
Time:
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Event Category:

Venue

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1 Jimmy Fund Way
Boston, MA 02215 United States
+ Google Map

Other

Twitter Hashtag:
#zelen2024