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: […]
Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, MD, PhD
Dr. Sara Elizabeth Stewart, born in Tecalitlán, Jalisco, Mexico in 1905, was a researcher who pioneered the field of viral oncology. Her father was an American mining engineer and her mother was Mexican. To escape the Mexican revolution, her family moved to the United States in 1911. She received two Bachelor’s degrees (1927) in Home […]
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde was born in Panama in 1920 before immigrating to San Antonio, Texas, in 1945. She earned a nursing diploma from San Antonio’s Medical and Surgical Hospital School of Nursing (1948). There she began to recognize the disproportionately low number of Hispanic nurses and found that it impacted care delivery for Hispanic patients. […]
Nicole Hernandez Hammer, MBA, MS
At the age of four, Nicole Hernandez Hammer and her family immigrated to the United States from Guatemala. She was then raised in Florida and began a lifelong journey into combating climate change. She received a BS in Integrated Natural Sciences from the University of South Florida (USF), a MS in Biology from Florida Atlantic […]
SCHEQ Founder Spoke at NCCN Policy Summit on Cancer Workforce Diversity
SCHEQ Founder, Dr. Manley, spoke at the National Comprehensive Cacner Network (NCCN) Policy Summit: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Cancer Workforce on September 10, 2024 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. . His panel discussed way to still achieve DEI in the Cancer Workforce in the face of all of the […]
SCHEQ Speaking at NCCN Policy Summit
SCHEQ‘s Founder and CEO will be speaking at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Oncology Policy Summit: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Cancer Workforce on September 10, 2024 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. His panel will be discussing “Maintaining the Committment: Navigating the Policy Landscape to Advance Diversity, Equity, and […]
Save the Date: 2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit
We are organizing the 2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit to be held in Atlanta Nov 18-19. The theme is “Black and Latino populations navigating lung cancer: problems and solutions”. We often talk about the problems these communities face, but rarely do we bring together stakeholders from all levels that are or have created solutions […]
2024 National Medical Association (NMA) Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly
August 3, 2024 – August 7, 2024 Start: August 3, 2024 7:30 AM (ET) End: August 7, 2024 1:30 PM (ET) SCHEQ will be attending the 2024 NMA Annual Convention in New York. This year’s theme is – “The Quest for Healthcare Transformation”. The NMA was founded in 1895 and is the oldest association of Black […]
2024 Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence (CHECoE) Research Symposium
SCHEQ will be attending the 2024 Rutgers Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence (CHECoE) Annual Research Symposium in New Brunswick, NJ at the Rutgers Cancer Institute (CINJ).