10:00AM – 2:00PM EST
CREATING A MASSACHUSETTS MODEL OF NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN PROSTATE CANCER EQUITY:
EXPANDING AWARENESS, EDUCATION, RESEARCH, ADVOCACY, AND ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY CARE
Speaker of the House Ronald Mariano
Senate President Karen Spilka
HOSTS
Senate President Pro Tempore William Brownsberger
Representative Gerry Cassidy
Chair, Joint Committee on Veteran and Federal Affairs
MASTERS OF CEREMONIES
Dr. Faina Shtern, MD
CEO and President of AdMeTech Foundation
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Milagros Abreu, MD, MPH
President/CEO and Founder, The Latino Health Insurance Program, Inc.
Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Creem
Juan Cofield
Prostate Cancer Survivor
Harold Cox, MSSW
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Professor, Community Health Sciences, Boston University
Michael Curry, ESQ
President and CEO, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
Kenneth Elmore, J.D.
President, Dean College
Adam Feldman, MD, MPH
Urologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; and Director, Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship
Representative Carlos Gonzalez
Chair, Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee
Senate Majority Whip Michael Rush
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 and Chair, Black and Latino Caucus
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Welcome and Introduction