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Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:
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Annet Mulder first became interested in breastfeeding in the year 2000, when she became a mother for the first time. During and because of her own breastfeeding experiences, in 2002 she became a volunteer with the Dutch breastfeeding Organization and in 2008 sat for and passed the exam administered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, she now
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Abstract: Breastfeeding mothers may turn to formula and/or bottles for many
reasons. Some supplementing with formula by bottle when they reach out for help, and for some moms,
supplementing by alternative methods may be very overwhelming. Some moms need or choose a combination
of breast milk and formula and others may decide to give occasional or regular bottles of expressed
milk. Whatever the reason, as health care professionals helping a mother to breastfeed, it is our
job to be able to help her to reach her own personal goals even when she needs, or chooses to use,
bottles or formula. Learn about baby-led bottle feeding and why it's so important, different types
of formula, their uses and how to prepare them, and how this all fits in with the WHO code and our
code of professional conduct.
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Dr. Amy Moore serves as LUNGevity Foundation’s Vice President of Global Engagement and Patient Partnerships. She is a PhD-trained virologist and cancer researcher who has spent over a decade working on large-scale initiatives to build research capacity and improve cancer outcomes. In her role with LUNGevity, Dr. Moore is working to strengthen collaborations with international partners, particularly in the areas of biomarker testing and precision medicine as well as in improving access to clinical trials, so that all patients receive optimal cancer care no matter where they live. Given her background in virology, Dr. Moore has also been a sought-after expert throughout the pandemic on issues at the intersection of COVID-19 and lung cancer and is part of a large NCI-funded grant to study the quality of the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination among patients with lung cancer. Dr. Moore serves on a number of advisory boards and frequently presents at major national and international conferences.
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Postdoctoral fellow in Clinica Universidad de Navarra and Center for Applied Medical Reseach, Pamplona, Spain. My research focuses in the study of circulating tumor cells in haematological neoplasms, particularly in multiple myeloma.
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Alessandro Russo, MD, PhD is a medical oncologist at the Medical Oncology Unit, A.O. Papardo, Messina, Italy. His research interest is focused on thoracic malignancies, immunotherapy and liquid biopsies. Dr. Russo degreed as M.D. at the University of Messina and there he completed his residency in Medical Oncology. He had his PhD in 2019 in Medical and Surgical Biotechnologies at the University of Messina and joined as Visiting Researcher the Division of Thoracic Medical Oncology and Early Clinical Trials at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (Baltimore, USA). He is member of several national and international scientific societies. Dr. Russo is co-author of more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, three book chapters and he is actively involved in clinical research in advanced NSCLC.
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Dr. Bruna Pellini is an Assistant Member at the Department of Thoracic Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and an Assistant Professor at Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. She received her medical degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and completed her residency at University of Central Florida College of Medicine, where she was awarded the “Clinical Skills Award” in 2015 and was inducted into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2016. Dr. Pellini completed her medical oncology fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, where she worked at the laboratory of Aadel Chaudhuri, MD, PhD conducting research on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for minimal residual disease (MRD) detection across different solid tumors. Dr. Pellini is an active member of the Lung Cancer Center of Excellence and the Molecular Medicine Committees at Moffitt Cancer Center. She specializes in the care of patients diagnosed with lung cancer. Her research interest lies in the development of clinical trials with novel therapeutics targeting genomic alterations in non-small cell lung cancer and to study liquid biopsies as a biomarker to monitor treatment response and detect MRD and their implementation into clinical trials.
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Sarah has 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry working for multiple Fortune 500 companies including Cardinal Health and Novartis (previously Genoptix). For the last 13 years Sarah has worked in the oncology and genetic diagnostic space with a focus on billing, collections, patient assistance program creation, market access and reimbursement specifically for laboratories such as Adaptive Biotechnologies and Cooper Genomics.
At Pierian, Sarah addresses clients reimbursement needs and concerns, works directly on launching successful revenue cycle packages and helps to create managed care dossiers and Medicare Technical Assessment submissions.
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Heinz-Josef Lenz, M.D., FACP, is the Associate Director for Clinical Research and Co-leader of the Translational Science Program at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Lenz is Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, J Terrence Lanni Chair for Cancer Research in the Division of Medical Oncology and Co-Director of the Center for Cancer Drug Development at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
An active researcher, Dr. Lenz’s National Cancer Institute-funded laboratory is developing novel agents in his preclinical models in GI cancer. Lenz, a transformational clinical investigator and translational scientist, was the first to lead the first prospective randomized Phase II trials using gene expression from FFPE specimens. He also discovered that primary tumor location of colorectal cancer (CRC) is an independent predictive and prognostic marker, now in the NCNN guidelines. His paper on Consensus Molecular Subtyping identified novel subgroups that are predictive and prognostic in CRC, now used globally in drug development. He has been the Co-PI of the UG1 CA 062505 for the last 20 years and leads the NCCC site for the NCI UM1 (CA186717 with City of Hope, (UC Davis), and Stanford. He is Chair of the Translational Medicine Subcommittee in SWOG GI, member of the Investigational Drug Steering Committee. Dr. Lenz accelerates translational and clinical research, and provides training and mentoring in the design and implementation of investigator-initiated trials. He together with Dr. Carpten just received a Moonshot Colon Cancer Research Grant from the NCI.
Dr. Lenz earned his M.D. degree at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. In 1991, he completed his internship, residency and fellowship training at the Eberhardt Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany. He obtained special fellowship training at Universität Wien (Austria), George Washington University and Harvard Medical School. In 1991, he received the prestigious Research Fellowship Award from the “Deutsche Krebshilfe” (Bonn, Germany). He completed his research fellowship in biochemistry and molecular biology at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center before joining the faculty of USC in 1994. He was awarded a Career Development Award from STOP CANCER (1994-1997). Based on his research, he also received a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in 1994. In 1995, Dr. Lenz was selected for the prestigious ASCO Career Development Award, as well as an NIH Mid-Career Development Award. He has published over 540 peer reviewed manuscripts with an h-index of 113.
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Burns C. Blaxall, PhD, is the founding Executive Director of Precision Medicine at The Christ Hospital Health Network (TCHHN). He leads a transition from reactive to proactive healthcare delivery by harnessing the power of personal diagnostic and genomic data. Using approaches ranging from cutting edge hereditary disease risk assessment, genetic counseling and testing to pharmacogenomics and genome-guided clinical care pathways, Precision Medicine at TCHHN aims to provide proactive, individualized care for every patient.
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Dr. Cristofanilli was born in Italy and received his medical degree and Medical Oncology Fellowship
from the University “La Sapienza” Medical School in Rome. He completed medical residency in NY and
Medical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and then joining
the Breast Medical Oncology Department for more than a decade. He is the Founder and first Executive
Director of the Morgan Welch IBC clinic and research program. He joined the Fox Chase Cancer Center
in Philadelphia as Chairman of Medical Oncology, then he served as Deputy Director of Translational
Research at the SKCC before moving to Chicago to build an innovative Precision Medicine Program at
the Robert H Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern University. During his term as Professor of Medicine
and the Associate Director of Translational Research and Precision Medicine the Institution underwent a
successful Core grant renewal based on excellence in Translational Research and Precision Medicine.
More recently, he joined the Weill-Cornell Medicine/NYP as Professor of Medicine, Chief of Breast
Medical Oncology and Associate Director of Precision Medicine at the Meyer Cancer Center. He is also
the Scientific Director of The Englander Institute of Precision Medicine.
He is the past President of the International Society of Liquid Biopsy (ISLB) and The Inflammatory
Breast Cancer-International Consortium (IBC-IC). Dr. Cristofanilli is an expert in the management of
hormone-receptor positive metastatic breast cancer and inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) serving as co-PI
of the PALOMA-3 study. More importantly, he pioneered the clinical testing of CTCs in MBC leading a
multicenter study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper was the first to
demonstrate the prognostic value of liquid biopsy in solid tumors and it is currently recognized as major
Milestone in Cancer Research. He continues to explore and investigate the clinical application of ctDNA
and CTCs technologies to implement personalized monitoring and treatment of advanced breast cancer
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