San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

Tigerlily Foundation Co-Hosts a Historic Session in Partnership with the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)

 

SABCS 2022 TIGERLILY FOUNDATION ACTIVATION

Program of Activities

December 6, 2022, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT: Virtual Special Session: Big Data and Health Equity

Moderated by Maimah Karmo, President, and Founder of the Tigerlily Foundation, by Dr. Charles Perou, Professor of Genetics at the UNC School of Medicine, Thelma Brown of University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Patty Spears of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Featuring:

Keynote Speakers:
Martin Mendoza, PhD
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Barbara Seggara, D.H.Sc
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Panelists:
Rhea Blakey
FDA
Silver Spring, MD

Michael Crawford, MBA, MHLA
Howard University
Washington, DC

Andrea Downing
The Light Collective
Seattle, WA

Erika Hamilton, MD
Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Nashville, TN

Martin Mendoza, PhD
National Institute of Health
Bethesda, MD

Charlotte Owens, MD
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Cambridge, MA

Barbara Seggara, D.H.Sc
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Jasmine Souers, BSc
The Missing Pink Breast Cancer Alliance
Jackson, FL

December 6, 2022, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM CT: Transforming Health Inequities in TNBC: It’s Time For Action! 

Tigerlily Foundation, in collaboration with Susan G. Komen and Cancer Support Community, will host an informative and interactive conversation about triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) inequities during the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Our vision is for this to be a dynamic forum with audience participation that generates actionable policy solutions to remove barriers to care for Black, Hispanic and younger women who are most at risk for TNBC.

Panel Moderator:

• Monique Gary, DO, MSc
  Breast surgical oncologist, Medical Director of the Grand View Health/Penn Cancer Network Program

Panel Participants:

• Maimah Karmo, Founder and CEO, Tigerlily Foundation
• Molly Guthrie, VP, Policy & Advocacy, Susan G. Komen
• Eucharia Borden, VP of Health Equity, Cancer Support Community

Follow the conversation at #TLCTransform