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Technology Opportunities for Patient Navigation | Nov 2-3, 2023

Meeting Information: November 2-3, 2023 | 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Virtual

On November 2 & 3, 2023, the President’s Cancer Panel held the second of three public meetings on the topic of Reducing Cancer Inequities: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Patient Navigation. This online event consisted of presentations and facilitated discussion among invited participants to explore current and potential uses of technology for cancer navigation and potential barriers to technology adoption and use. Check out the summary below for themes and priority areas that emerged from this meeting.

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Day 1 Agenda

Time Agenda Item 
1:00 – 1:20 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
1:20 – 1:30 p.m. Discussion Process Overview 
1:30 – 1:45 p.m.

Navigation Technology Reach And Access Presentation

1:45 – 3:15 p.m.

Navigation Technology Reach And Access Discussion

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Developing And Curating Trusted Technologies And Content Presentation

3:45 – 5:15 p.m.

Developing And Curating Trusted Technologies And Content Discussion

5:15 - 5:30 p.m.

Day 1 Wrap-Up And Meeting Close

Day 2 Agenda

Time Agenda Item 
1:00 – 1:15 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
1:15 – 1:30 p.m.

Technology Potential For Navigation Across The Care Continuum Presentation

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Technology Potential For Navigation Across The Care Continuum Discussion

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 – 5:00 p.m.

Emerging Technologies Discussion

5:00 – 5:25 p.m.

Closing Discussion

5:25 - 5:30 p.m.

Final Comments And Meeting Close

Participants

Name Title & Affiliations
Tracy Battaglia, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Mitchel S. Berger, MD, FACS, FAANS Member
President’s Cancer Panel
Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Carol L. Brown, MD Member
President’s Cancer Panel
Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Wout Brusselaers, MA, MFA
 
Founder and CEO
Deep 6 AI
Pasadena, CA
Paige Butler
 
Senior Manager of Digital Communications
Lymphoma Research Foundation
New York, NY
Irene Chen, PhD Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Francisco
Berkeley, CA
Monica Dean Director of Patient Navigation
Program Development
Academy of Oncology Nurse
& Patient Navigators
Dunwoody, GA
Irene Dankwa-Mullan, MD, MPH
 
Chief Health/Medical Officer
Marti Health
Bethesda, MD
Ethan Davidoff
 
CEO
Atlas Health
Seattle, WA
Crystal S. Denlinger, MD

Chief Executive Officer
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Plymouth Meeting, PA

Megan Doerr, MS, LGC

Director, Applied ELSI Research
Sage Bionetworks
Seattle, WA

Ricki Fairley, MBA CEO and Co-Founder
TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance
Annapolis, MD
Samantha L. Finstad, PhD Senior Health Science Policy Advisor
President’s Cancer Panel
Program Director, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Jennifer C. Goldsack, MChem, MA, MBA, OLY CEO
Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)
Boston, MA
Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA Senior Fellow, Innovation
Clinical Intelligence and Advanced Data Lab
OSF HealthCare
Peoria, IL
Ivor Braden Horn, MD, MPH

Chief Health Equity Officer
Google
Mountain View, CA

Melanie K. Infinger
 

CEO
Nursenav
North Charleston, SC

Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD
 

Chair
President’s Cancer Panel
Dana and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli Professor of Oncology
Deputy Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Cancers Program
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Maureen R. Johnson, PhD
 

Executive Secretary
President’s Cancer Panel
Special Assistant, Office of the Director
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Katherine Kim, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAMIA Principal, Consumer Health Informatics
Health Innovation Center
MITRE Corporation
McLean, VA
Tatjana Kolevska, MD Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente National Cancer Excellence Program
Kaiser Permanente
Mill Valley, CA
Melissa D. McCradden, PhD, MHSc
 

Bioethicist & Associate Scientist
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, ON, Canada

Michelle Mollica, PhD, MPH, RN, OCN Deputy Director
Office of Cancer Survivorship
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Daniela Monterroza, MSPH
 
Health Communications Fellow
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Timothy Mullett, MD, MBA, AFCS
 
Medical Director, Markey Cancer Center Network
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
Kingsley I. Ndoh, MD, MPH
 
Founder and Chief Strategist
Hurone AI
Clinical Assistant Professor of Global Health
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Kellie Owens, PhD
 
Assistant Professor
Medical Ethics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP
 
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Amila Patel, PharmD, BCOP
 
Chief Clinical & Strategy Officer
Navigating Cancer
Seattle, WA
Steven R. Patierno, PhD
 
Deputy Director
Duke Cancer Institute
Charles D. Watts Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC
Hoifung Poon, PhD
 
General Manager
Health Futures
Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA
Traudi Rose, DNP, RN, MBA, OCN, NEA-BC
 
Nurse Manager, Cancer Care Navigation Team Program
VA Portland Health Care System
Portland, OR
Maya R. Said, ScD
 

Founder and CEO
Outcomes4Me Inc.
Boston, MA

Arti Patel Varanasi, PhD, MPH, CPH
 
President & CEO
Advancing Synergy
Senior Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University
Clarksburg, MD
Tingting Zhang, PhD
 
Founder
Hear2Care.org
Spokane, WA

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