Cancer Prevention Symposium

Time

Topic

12:00 – 12:10pm

Welcome and Introduction

Paolo Boffetta, MD, MPH, Professor and Associate Director for Population Sciences, Stony Brook University

12:10 – 12:40pm

RELEVANCE OF NUTRITION TO CANCER DISPARITIES

Edward Giovannucci, MD, MPH, ScD, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

12:40 – 1:10 pm

MICROBES SHAPING COLON CARCINOGENESIS

Cynthia Sears, MD, Professor of Medicine and Oncology, Johns Hopkins, University School of Medicine

1:10 – 1:40 pm

CANCER DISPARITIES: BEHAVIOR AND BIOLOGY

Temitope Keku, MSPH, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

1:40 – 1:50 pm

Break

1:50 – 2:05 pm

ORAL IMMUNIZATION WITH HIGHLY ATTENUATED LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES VACCINES TO ELICIT GASTROINTESTINAL IMMUNITY

Brian Sheridan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stony Brook University

2:05 – 2:20 pm

LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION TO REDUCE BODY WEIGHT AND SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION AMONG WORLD TRADE CENTER RESPONDERS

Chrisa Arcan, PhD, MHS, MBA, RD, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA / Stony Brook University

2:20 – 2:35 pm

MODIFYING DIET TO ENHANCE CANCER THERAPY

David Montrose, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

2:35 – 2:50 pm

HIGH-FAT DIET AND PANCREATIC CANCER

Weiqin Lu, PhD, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University

2:50 – 3:00 pm

Trainee Short Talks