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Position: Associate Professor of Radiology
Institution: Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Project Title: Contrast Enhanced Mammography for Women with a History of Breast Cancer.
Tim Kavanagh is a colon cancer survivor and fierce advocate for cancer prevention and early detection. He uses his experiences to encourage others to take charge of their health and shares the messaging of Prevent Cancer Foundation to help the Foundation further our mission of saving lives across all populations through cancer prevention and early detection.
Co-Chair, Scientific Review Program, Prevent Cancer Foundation
Professor Emeritus, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health of Mexico)
Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Global Health and Population
Global Grant: Feasibility of Colorectal Cancer Screening Based on Existing Primary Prevention Activities in Mexico City
Director of Global Cancer Disparity Initiatives, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Global Grant: The Efficacy and Feasibility of Fecal Immunochemistry for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Nigeria
Global Grant: Feasibility of Breast Cancer Screening in High-Risk Nigerian Women Using a Novel Low-Cost Device
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
Project Title: Culturally tailored lifestyle intervention for Hispanic non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Project Title: A Novel Approach to Help Women of Reproductive Age Quit Smoking
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Project Title: Modulating skin microbiota-host interactions to prevent UV-induced skin cancer
Meet some of our team.
Jody Hoyos, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Prevent Cancer Foundation, helps kick off the week.
Rick Avila, MS, Accumetra LLC
Global Grant: Global Image Quality Monitoring and Optimization of CT Lung Nodule Imaging
Kathleen Schmeler, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Global Grant: Addressing the Cervical Cancer Crisis in Mozambique through Training and Education for the Early Detection of Disease
Sitapriya Moorthi, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Research Grant awarded to Dr. Alice Berger: Understanding The Etiology of Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers
Ophira Ginsburg, MSc, MD, FRCPC, Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center
Global Grant: A Comparison of Recruitment Strategies to Improve Uptake and Retention to the Tanzanian National Cervical Cancer Screening Program
Meet the experts turning your donations into action. The panel at AGDQ 2020 spotlighted a new portable breast screening device in Nigeria, cervical cancer screening devices in Peru and lung cancer screening innovations in Poland — showing how your dollars make a difference in cancer prevention & early detection.
Read more and watch the full panel.