Meetings and Seminars
Howard Hopkins Joint Scientific Symposium
The HUCC and SKCCC jointly hold a special Symposia on topics relevant to the partnership. During the course of the partnership, four symposia have been held. The Partnership uses these Symposia to identify high priority areas for future collaborative studies within the Partnership. The next symposium was held on October 15, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel at Washington Center in Washington, D.C. The topics were "Innovations in Breast and Prostate Cancer Research: Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Health Disparities." View Program.
Howard-Hopkins Longviews
The mission of the Howard-Hopkins Longviews is to further education, science and understanding of racial disparities in cancer through meaningful exchanges resulting in effective collaborations and partnerships and to foster the next generation or racial disparities researchers and practitioner researchers with close associations and community-based feedback. The Longviews is a gathering of scientists from both institutions interested in multidisciplinary scrutiny of our knowledge of cancer. Moderators from each institution and interested students and faculty hear, comment and interact around a presented area of research. Unexpected insight into the problem, new avenues of research, and discovered resiliency of thinking or approach are often the result of a Longview. In turn, fresh collaborations fuel new research applications and resource and data sharing. series of highly interactive seminars where investigators, faculty, and clinicians assemble to discuss a topic in detail and from the perspectives represented in the audience.
A moderator or grand marshal presides assuring transition from one perspective to another and providing questions to pursue the topic further. Two hours are spent having presentations and question-answer sessions from presenters; a third hour is used for cross talk among the four inter-related topics introduced during the session. Some topics already identified include:
• Is the observed disparity more related to class or race?
• Is estrogen negative breast cancer a disease of black women?
• Are the barriers to preventive health care or early detection services the same across racial and ethnic groups?
• What is critical about culture that must be used to tailor interventions?
• Are cancer biomarkers consistent with epidemiological disparities findings?
From past experience, these seminars have led to joint review, policy and theory papers, and scientific papers; joint, successful funding applications; and joint resources such as sample repositories or uniform data collection instruments. Three Longviews are planned each year with pizza or other light refreshment served. Dr. Donald Coffey is an experienced moderator and will participate in each session. Our first Longviews was held on March 21, 2007 at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt, Maryland. The topic was, “What are Racial Disparities in Cancer? Societal and Biological Perspecitives.
Dr. Donald S. Coffey served as Grand Marshal; Drs. Georgia Dunston and David Holtgrave served as moderators; and Drs. Charles Rotimi and Thomas LaVeist served as featured speakers. Over forty Howard and Hopkins students and faculty participated.
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