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 […]
2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit Discussion
Eugene Manley, Jr, PhD, SCHEQ (STEMM & Cancer Health Equity) Founder & CEO, recently spoke with Jill Squire on Episode 36 of the Everything Cancer Podcast. In this conversation we discussed the 2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit that will be held at PCOM -Georgia Nov 18-19, 2024. The goal of this summit is to […]
SCHEQ 2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit
The 2nd SCHEQ Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit will be held at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia in Suwanee, GA, Nov 18 – Nov 19, 2024. The theme is “Black and Latino Patients Navigating Lung Cancer: Stepping Stones to Equity”. The registration page can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/LCHES Poster Submission page is: […]
Cesar Milstein, PhD
Cesar Milstein was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina in 1927 to immigrant parents. His father immigrated from Ukraine and his mother was also from a Ukrainian immigrant family. In his early life, his parents sought to ensure their children’s education and encouraged all of them to go to university. In 1952, he graduated with a […]
Baruj Benacerraf, MD
Baruj Benacerraf was born in 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela to Spanish-Jewish parents. His early childhood was spent in Paris, France where his family stayed until the early 1930s before fleeing back to Venezuela under the threat of the Second World War. Benacerraf’s father was a textile merchant and importer, and hoped his son would follow […]
Carlos Juan Finlay, MD
Born in 1833 in Cuba, Carlos Juan Finlay was a physician and scientist credited with discovering that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. Both of Finlay’s parents were European and he pursued his early education in France. Finlay earned his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1855. During his medical studies, he befriended and […]
France A Córdova, PhD
On August 5th, 1947, France Anne-Dominic Córdova was born in Paris to an Irish mother and Mexican-American father who was Chief of the Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe (CARE) Program stationed in France before settling in West Covina, California. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature at Stanford University, where she conducted anthropological […]
SCHEQ Interview with Dr. Leyland on Bridinging the Gap In STEMM
SCHEQ (STEMM & Cancer Health Equity) Founder and CEO, Dr. Eugene Manley, Jr., was interviewed by Dr. Leyland on her Level Up Academy – Higher Education Edition Youtube Show on 9/12/2024. This program was called “Bridging the Gap in STEMM: Advancing Diversity, Health Equity, and Mentorship for Future Generations”. This was a great discussion about mentorship, […]