With the help of subject matter experts – Julie Vose, M.D., M.B.A, Neumann M. and Mildred E. Harris Professor and chief of the division of hematology/oncology, and Babu Guda, Ph.D., associate professor, genetics, cell biology and anatomy and director of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core Facility – the newly activated @BuffettCC Twitter account participated in two more successful Twitter chats over the past month – #CancerDisparities and #CancerGenomics.
A Twitter chat is an organized, real-time conversation around a particular topic. Both the Twitter chats were moderated by the National Cancer Institute.
The topic for the Nov. 18 chat involving Dr. Vose was, "A holistic approach to addressing cancer health disparities." Dr. Vose covered questions around late-stage diagnosis, low enrollment in clinical trials and screening in rural areas.
View the Q&A format of the Nov. 18 chat.
The topic for the Dec. 8 chat was "Genomics and precision medicine in oncology." With more than 90 participants, 1,024 tweets (messages of 140 characters or less), the conversation left more than 12.6 million impressions over the course of the hour.
Drs. Vose and Guda and the social media teams with Nebraska Medicine and UNMC helped manage the content and execution of the chats.
View the Q&A format of the Dec, 8 chat.
If you would like to consider becoming a social media subject matter expert for oncology topics, please contact Melinda Sommerfeld at msommerfeld@nebraskamed.com.