Millennium Maxwell

House - Nashville

2025 Rosa L. Parks Blvd.

Nashville, TN

8:30am-9:30am Registration, Networking and Coffee — Promenade

9:30am-10:00am Welcoming and Opening Remarks — Grande Ballroom

Jennifer Murray, Tennessee Cancer Consortium

Carolyn “Bo” Aldigé, Prevent Cancer Foundation

10:00am-11:00am

Ronald Alvarez, M.D., M.B.A. — HPV & Cancer

Krystle Lang Kuhs, Ph.D. — HPV detection

Kelly L. Moore, M.D., M.P.H. — HPV Vaccination in TN

Pamela Hull, Ph.D. — Efforts to Increase HPV Vaccination

11:00am-11:40am

Panelists: Dr. Alvarez, Dr. Kuhs, Dr. Hull & Dr. Moore

11:40-am-12:00pm Break / Visit exhibits

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch & Keynote Address featuring Marissa Jaret Winokur,

Tony Award-winner and Think About The Link® Spokesperson

1:00pm-1:15pm Break / Visit exhibits

1:15pm–2:15pm Grande Ballroom:

Survivor: A Provider’s Personal Perspective — Jennifer Radtke, RN

Memphis’ Church Health Center— Sterling McNeal

Tobacco Session

Forum East Room

Moderator—Rebecca Selove

Tobacco Free Chattanooga—Paula Collier, Hamilton County Health Department

Tobacco Coalition—Denise Costanza & Alex Carmack, NashvilleHealth

Tobacco in TN—Marcella Bianco, TN Department of Health

Cancer Care

Forum West Room

Moderator—Mary Winslow

Physician Simulation Lab—Anna-Gene O’Neal, Alive Hospice

Navigator Training—Sharon Dwyer, Appalachian Studies

Healthy Eating—Katherine Ray, Heimerdinger Foundation

Women’s Health

Overton Room

2nd Floor

Moderator—Navita Gunter

Cervical Cancer Survivor—Navita Gunter, Cervical Cancer Coalition of TN

Metastatic Breast Cancer—Catherine Ormerod, Living Beyond Breast Cancer

Engaging the Latino Community—Claudia Barajas, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center

Ovarian Cancer: Risk and Survival—Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Vanderbilt Ingram

Cancer Center

Advocacy

International Room

Moderator—Lynn Williams

Affordable Health Care and Cancer Patients—Walter Davis, TN Health Care

Campaign

Legislative Update—Heather Wehrheim, American Lung Association

Palliative Care Task Force—Lynn Williams, American Cancer Society, Cancer

Action Network

3:45pm-4:45pm

4:45pm-6:00pm Closing Remarks/Networking Reception—Crown Ballroom

Staying Alive Divas “Edu-tainment”

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dr. Alvarez received his B.S. degree in 1979 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and his M.D. in 1983 from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orle-ans, Louisiana. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1987 and his fellow-ship in Gynecologic Oncology in 1990, both at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Bir-mingham, Alabama. He received his M.B.A. in 2013 from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. His long-term research interests have included the development of novel therapeutics for ovari-an cancer and new screening and prevention strategies for cervical cancer. He has been the re-cipient of several NCI and other industry funded grants in support of his research in gene thera-peutics for ovarian cancer, including projects funded by the UAB Ovarian Cancer SPORE. He is currently co-chair of the NRG Oncology Gynecologic Cancer Committee. Dr. Alvarez has pub-lished over 250 articles in various peer-reviewed journals and has served on the editorial board of Gynecologic Oncology. In 2013, he served as President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncolo-gy and he currently serves as Director of Gynecologic Oncology Division for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Division - Epidemiology

Dr. Lang Kuhs received her M.P.H at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Ph.D at the National Cancer Institute. She is a cancer prevention researcher trained in basic la-boratory science and epidemiology. Dr. Lang Kuhs’ research area is oncogenic viruses and vi-rus-associated cancers. Within this area, her main research interests include (1) understanding the epidemiology of oncogenic infections; (2) vaccine development; and (3) identification of novel methods for detection of virus-associated cancers. Prior to her arrival at Vanderbilt, Dr. Lang Kuhs conducted research on hepatitis C virus and human papillomavirus, two viruses re-sponsible for a significant burden of cancers worldwide. During her dissertation, she devel-oped and patented four novel HCV vaccines, which are currently being evaluated in two Phase I clinical trials. As a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the NCI, Dr. Lang Kuhs’ research focused on understanding HPV infections at anatomic sites outside of the cervix. She published the first study to assess the efficacy of the bivalent HPV vaccine against vulvar HPV infections and pub-lished studies describing the epidemiology of non-cervical HPV infections. At Vanderbilt, she will be building on her previous work by examining whether virus-specific antibodies can be

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine Division - Epidemiology

Pamela Hull is a medical sociologist with expertise in the development, testing, and dissemina-tion of behavioral interventions to promote cancer prevention behaviors in youth. Her re-search specifically focuses on increasing HPV vaccine use, healthy eating, and physical activity, using implementation science and technology-based applications. Much of her work addresses health disparities among African American, Hispanic, and low-income populations, in collabo-ration with community partners. Dr. Hull has over 12 years of experience as an investigator conducting community-engaged research. She earned a Bachelor degree in Sociology from Duke University and a Masters and Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University.

Director , Tennessee Immunization Program at the TN Department of Health

Kelly Moore, MD, MPH, is the Director of the Tennessee Immunization Program at the Ten-nessee Department of Health (TDH). She has headed this program since 2004. The Immun-ization Program administers the federal Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) that provides vaccines to almost half of Tennessee children, the Tennessee Immunization Information System, “TennIIS”, and is responsible for the surveillance and control of vaccine-preventable diseases in Tennessee. Dr. Moore earned undergraduate and medical degrees from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She currently serves as a voting member of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, responsible for developing recommendations for the use of all FDA-licensed vaccines.

used as potential biomarkers for the diagnosis and/or early detection of virus-associated cancers and whether modulation of these immune responses can alter the course of dis-ease.

Jennifer Murray, TN Cancer Consortium

Anne Washburn, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Gabrelle Taylor, Prevent Cancer Foundation

Kim Parham, TN Cancer Consortium

Derriel Tolbert, TN Cancer Consortium

Navita Gunter, Cervical Cancer Coalition of TN

Susan Veale, TN Health Care Campaign

Cyndi Thomas, St. Clair Senior Center

Darlene Frey, Survivor

Tammy Sandlin, Survivor

Karen Shayne, Women’s Survivors Alliance

Rhonda Hicks, SURVIVORville

American Cancer Society

Living Beyond Breast Cancer

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center

Cervical Cancer Free TN Coalition

Prevent Cancer Foundation

TN Cancer Consortium

TN Department of Environment and Conservation

Citizens 4 Radon Reduction

Cervical Cancer Coalition of TN

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