The Schedule

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Speakers:

Henrietta Barcelo, BA, ChicagoCHEC Community Steering Committee (CSC) Co-Chair & Healthcare Liaison, Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA)

Joanne Glenn, MBA, RN, ChicagoCHEC Community Steering Committee (CSC) Co-Chair & Founder, Women on Top of their Game (W.O.T.) Foundation, Inc.

Melissa Simon, MD, MPH, Vice Chair of Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Founder/Director, Center for Health Equity Transformation; MPI, Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative; Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD, MPI, Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative, and Associate Director of Population Science at the University of Illinois Cancer Center

Lidia Filus, PhD, MPI, Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative, and Professor and Chair of Mathematics of Northeastern Illinois University

Community Experiences & Real Talk

Facilitator:

Yolonda Ross, Actress, Writer/Director, and Producer

Community Panelists:

Elizabeth Rivera

Tatisa Joiner

Linda Cassady

Arthur Ray

Grief, Loss & Healing

Speaker:

Rhonda Kooy, MS, Spiritual Psychologies, Shaman, Healer and Spiritual Mentor

Raffle Winner Announcement

Closing Remarks

Speaker:

Ngozi Ezike, MD, Director Illinois Department of Public Health

Welcoming & Opening Remarks

Speaker:

Karriem Watson, DHS, MS, MPH, Chief Engagement Officer, NIH All of Us Research Program

Cancer Screening & Healthier Outcomes

Speaker:

Pamela Ganschow, MD, Clinical Director of Cancer Prevention and Survivorship Program at University of Illinois Cancer Center

ChicagoCHEC Cancer Research Projects

Speakers:

Dr. Josef Ben Levi, EdD, Project Investigator, ChicagoCHEC SHARED Project, Instructor, Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies, College of Education, Northeastern Illinois University

Susan Magasi, PhD, MS, BScOT, BSc, Project investigator, ChicagoCHEC WeCanManage Project, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois Chicago

COVID-19 Vaccine & Cancer

Speaker:

Susan Bleasdale, MD, FIDSA, FACP, Chief Quality Officer for UI Health, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Medical Director Infection Prevention and Control, University of Illinois Chicago

Raffle Winner Announcment & Closing Remarks