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