Racial Differences in Prostate Cancer Outcomes: Promoting Equity by Improving Access to Care Training

January 11, 2022
Early Detection and Treatment
Health Equity
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This online CME course is focused on identifying and assessing prostate cancer disparities and evaluating solutions to address disparities in cancer treatment and outcomes.

Faculty:

Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Director of Ambulatory Clinical Operations at the Division of Urological Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Co-Director of the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Prostate Cancer Center.

Stewart Landers, JD, MCP, has been a senior consultant at JSI since 1994, focusing on HIV, substance abuse treatment, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender health, health care reform, and chronic disease.

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Health Equity
Prostate Cancer

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