
March 31, 2022
10:00AM – 2:00PM EST
VIRTUAL EVENT
CREATING A MASSACHUSETTS MODEL OF NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN PROSTATE CANCER EQUITY:
EXPANDING AWARENESS, EDUCATION, RESEARCH, ADVOCACY, AND ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY CARE
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Speaker of the House Ronald Mariano

Senate President Karen Spilka
HOSTS

Senate President Pro Tempore William Brownsberger

Representative Gerry Cassidy
Vice Chair, Committee on Post Audit and Oversight
MASTERS OF CEREMONIES

Dr. Faina Shtern, MD
CEO and President of AdMeTech Foundation

Cheryl Bartlett, RN
CEO at Greater New Bedford Community Health, Inc. and Former Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
FEATURED SPEAKERS

Milagros Abreu, MD, MPH
President/CEO and Founder, The Latino Health Insurance Program, Inc.

Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Creem

Juan Cofield
President, New England Area Conference of NAACP

Harold Cox, MSSW
Associate Professor of Community Health, BU

Dean Kenneth Elmore, M.Ed, JD
Associate Provost and Dean of Students, Boston University

Adam Feldman, MD, MPH
Urologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; and Director, Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship

Guy Fish, MD
CEO and President at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

Representative Carlos Gonzalez
Chair, Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee

Senate Majority Whip Michael Rush

Representative Jon Santiago, Vice Chair, Joint Committee on COVID- 19 and Emergency Preparedness and Management

Dr. Mitchell Sokoloff, MD
Professor and Chair of Urology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine and UMass Memorial Medical Center

Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD
Co-Director Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Prostate Cancer Program Director Ambulatory Clinical Operations, Division of Urological Surgery Associate Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School

Representative Bud Williams
Chair, Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Welcome and Introduction