Event Overview
WHEN
Thursday June 17
1 p.m. EST
WHERE
Online Video Conference
The Marquee Conference on Racial Disparities and Cancer.
A Black woman who gets cancer in America has a 39% higher chance of dying than a white woman. Black men with prostate cancer are almost twice as likely to die from the illness as white men with the same disease.
So what can we do? The data over the last 30 years is clear: Awareness and education are what moves the needle.
That’s why we hosted Close The Gap, a virtual conference produced by SurvivorNet, in collaboration with Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health. This event helps to educate, share new ideas, and design a future for cancer care that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Host:
Shaun Robinson
Author, Producer, Philanthropist
Panelists:
Kimberly Alexander
CEO of Level Health and Multiple Myeloma Advocate
Jackie Berangere
Patient Navigator at NYU Health
Marecya Burton
Ovarian Cancer Survivor
Dr. Luther Clark
Deputy Chief Patient Officer, Merck
Alex Echols
Best-Selling Author, Lymphoma Survivor and Patient Advocate
Dr. Marilyn Fraser
CEO at the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
Mathew Knowles
Breast Cancer Survivor
Claire Mulhearn
Global Head of Health Communications & Engagement, Merck
Dr. Joseph Ravenell
NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center
Evelyn Reyes-Beato
Colon Cancer Survivor
Jenny Saldana
Breast Cancer Survivor
Erika Stallings
Breast Cancer Survivor
Shalini Vallabhan
Managing Director of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
With a special music performance by:
Macy Gray
Grammy Award Winning Singer
*image by Giuliano Bekor