CHIP Lecture Series, Fall 2014
Terrance Albrecht, PhD
Karmanos Cancer Institute/Wayne State University School of Medicine
Lecture:
“Reducing Cancer Health Disparities Using Community Engaged Research”
12:30 - 1:30pm
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd Floor, Ryan Building
Followed by:
Conversation:
“Tips for Establishing a Community Engaged Research Program”
2:00 - 3:30pm
Colloquium Room 14, 1st Floor, Ryan Building
For more information: http://events.uconn.edu/event/35311/2014-10-23
Co-Sponsors:
Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion, UConn
Center for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn Health
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, UConn
School of Social Work, UConn
Location
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view the lecture streamed live or afterwards at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-10-23-14. The conversation will not be live-streamed or recorded.
About the Speaker
Terrance Albrecht, Ph.D., is Associate Center Director for Population Sciences and Leader of the Population Studies and Disparities Research Program at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan, where she directs transdisciplinary cancer research programs in clinical communication, behavior, and genetic epidemiology. She holds appointments as Professor and Division Director for Population Sciences in the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Oncology and Adjunct Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences.
Dr. Albrecht is the author of more than 125 scientific publications and four books. Her cancer research focuses on structures, processes and functions of social systems and effects on health disparities. Her research program has been continuously funded by federal agencies for nearly two decades. Her work currently includes community engaged approaches to developing interventions to reduce the cancer burden disproportionately affecting older, underserved urban African American adults in Detroit. In clinical contexts, she designed an original video recording system to observe clinical communication processes in real time, now in use at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, the Henry Ford Health System, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, TN). Her studies demonstrate how clinical communication processes influence patient clinical trial accrual, treatment decision making and other behavioral, social and health outcomes experienced by diverse populations of adult and pediatric patients and their families.
Dr. Albrecht has served on numerous study panels for the National Institutes of Health. She served as Chair of the Community Influences on Health Behavior Standing Study Section for the NIH Center for Scientific Review (2007-2009) and is completing her four-year appointment as a member of NCI’s Subcommittee A, the parent committee that reviews all competitive initial and renewal applications from cancer centers for NCI designation and comprehensive status. She also serves as a member of the External Advisory Boards for the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center and Fox Chase/Temple Cancer Center (Philadelphia, PA).
More information available at: http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/fall-2014-schedule/
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