UNMC’s Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD, will speak before the President’s Cancer Panel on Tuesday.
Dr. Watanabe-Galloway is the associate director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Community Outreach and Engagement, as well as the Dr. Tim Hawks Chair in Cancer Prevention and Population Science in the UNMC Department of Epidemiology.
The President’s Cancer Panel is a federal advisory committee that monitors the activities of the National Cancer Program and reports to the U.S. president on barriers to progress in reducing the burden of cancer. This year, the panel is conducting a series of public meetings to discuss the current landscape of patient navigation. The committee’s goal is to identify opportunities related to the use of technology to support navigation of cancer patients and eliminate inequities accessing timely and high-quality cancer care.
Dr. Watanabe-Galloway has been invited to participate in an in-person meeting of the panel in New Orleans. This will be the first meeting of a series – Reducing Cancer Care Inequities: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Patient Navigation.
The meeting is open to the public and will be shown live online.
Information gathered during this meeting series will guide the development of the panel’s report to the president and recommendations to relevant stakeholders. In the past, panel reports have been used widely by other National Cancer Program stakeholders, both public and private, to highlight barriers and push for change based on the panel’s recommendations.