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Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 12/02/2020This NAACCR Talk is based on a concurrent session that had been planned for the in person 2020 NAACCR Annual Conference.
This NAACCR Talk is based on a concurrent session that had been planned for the in person 2020 NAACCR Annual Conference.
Valerie Yoder, BS
Database Analyst
Utah Cancer Registry
Valerie Yoder has a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science with a focus on algorithms and data processing. She has worked in the Utah Cancer Registry Informatics department for five years processing, extracting, and analyzing data. She continuously explores process improvements and automation for registry operations and research and has successfully integrated several new and changing data sources. Previously, she worked for many years developing procedures to process and analyze pre-clinical medical imaging data with programming and scientific software.
Carol Sweeney, PhD
Director
Utah Cancer Registry
Carol Sweeney PhD is a cancer epidemiologist and Professor in the department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah. She has over 10 years experience teaching epidemiology and conducting cancer research as a university faculty member. She has been a director at Utah Cancer Registry from 2014 to the present.
Joseph Rogers, MS
Team Lead for Informatics, Data
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Joseph D. Rogers received his B.S. and M.S. in Biology/Chemistry and Information Management respectively from Arizona State University (ASU). He worked in Arizona for the Maricopa County Health Department as a project manager and data analyst before joining CDC in 1991 (first as a contractor and then as a federal employee in 1997). During Mr. Rogers’ contracting years at CDC, he worked as a systems analyst on information technology projects, as a project manager, and as a data manager within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). When Mr. Rogers joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a federal employee, he initially worked for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) as data manager and later joined the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC)/Cancer Surveillance Branch (CSB) in 1998 as the Team Lead for the Informatics, Data
Bozena Morawski, PhD, MPH
Epidemiologist
Cancer Data Registry of Idaho
Bozena Morawski received a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota and an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Morawski is an epidemiologist at the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho. Her research interests include vulnerable and minority populations, infectious disease-associated cancers, and analysis of cancer data by geography. She is a member of the CiNA Editorial Work Group and coauthor of the CiNA Prevalence Volume.
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Focus on Brain Tumors
Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 11/04/2020This NAACCR Talk is based on a concurrent session that had been planned for the in person 2020 NAACCR Annual Conference.
Trends in Non-Malignant Brain Tumor Rates in the USA during 2004-2017:real or artifact?*
Diana Withrow, PhD
Epidemiologist, National Cancer Institute
Missing Meningiomas: Are Non-Pathologically Diagnosed Cancers Underreported?
Dennis Deapen DrPH, MPH
Epidemiologist, Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program
Ependymoma, NOS and Anaplastic Ependymoma Incidence and Survival in the United States Varies Widely by Patient and Clinical Charateristics, 2000-2016
Gino Cioffi, MPH
Biostatistician, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine & CBTRUS
Epidemiology of Brainstem High-Grade Gliomas in Children and Adolescents in the United States, 2000-2017
Nirav Patil, MBBS, MPH
Senior Biostatistician, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center & CBTRUS
*At the request of the present, we did not post the slides for this presentation.
Diana Withrow, PhD
Epidemiologist, National Cancer Institue
Diana Withrow, Ph.D., joined the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) as a postdoctoral fellow in May 2016 and promoted to Research Fellow in June 2018. Dr. Withrow earned her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health in 2016. Working with Dr. Loraine Marrett, her doctoral research comprised the first national-level analysis of cancer survival among First Nations and Métis adults in Canada. In 2010, Dr. Withrow earned an M.Sc. in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Since 2016, Dr. Withrow has worked as a post-doctoral and research fellow in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at teh National Cancer Institute. There, Dr. Withrow’s research interests include socio-demographic and economic disparities in survival and survivorship, the role of therapy on second cancer risk, and the optimal application of survival analysis techniques to these research areas.
Dennis Deapen, DrPH, MPH
Epidemiologist, Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program - USCer
Dennis Deapen is Professor of Preventive Medicine at the USC School of Medicine. He has been Director of the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP) since 1988. The CSP functions in the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and is also a member of the California Cancer Registry and the SEER Program. He received a MPH from Loma Linda University and Doctor of Public Health from UCLA. He has been an epidemiologist since 1977 conducting research in etiology, prevention and survivorship of cancer. He has created or led large, long-term cohort studies of cancer risk. Most recently he initiated the Virtual Pooled Registry which creates the capacity for linking cancer epidemiology cohort studies with all US cancer registries simultaneously. He has been author or co-author of over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He served as President of NAACCR and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Cancer Registries.
Gino Cioffi, MPH
Biostatistician, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine & CBTRUS
Gino Cioffi is a biostatistician at Case Western University School of Medicine. He graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology in 2016 and a Master of Public Health in Biostatistics in 2018. He has been involved in CBTRUS since 2018, where he contributes to the preparation of the CBTRUS analytic data files, data analysis, interpretation, manuscripts, reports and data requests.
Nirav Patil, MBBS, MPH
Senior Biostatistician; University Hospitals: Cleveland Medical Center & CBTRUS
Nirav Patil received Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India in 2010, and a Master of Public Health in Biostatistics from University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas in 2013. Currently, I am working a biostatistician at University Hospitals, Cleveland. Beginning 2019, I am contributing to the preparation of the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS) analytic data files, data analysis, interpretation, reports and data requests in addition to preparation of presentations and publications for CBTRUS projects.
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Social Determinants of Health Part 2
Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 10/28/2020This NAACCR Talk is based on a concurrent session that had been planned for the in person 2020 NAACCR Annual Conference.
The importance of examining the intersection of rural-urban status and race/ethnicity in cancer surveillance research: an early-onset colorectal cancer example
Whitney Zahnd, PhD; University of South Carolina
Implementation of a Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool to Inform Cancer Care Improvement Strategies among Diverse Patients in Primary Care Settings
Jennifer Tsui, PhD, MPH; Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Application of Machine Learning and computer vision models to identify green and blue space in remote sensing images
Pushkar Inamdar, PhD; Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
Spatial Econometrics: A framework to understand geographic disparities in cancer outcomes
Sandi Pruitt, PhD; University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterWhitney Zahnd, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Dr. Whitney Zahnd is a research assistant professor with the Rural & Minority Health Research Center in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.
Jennifer Tsui, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Jennifer Tsui is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine and a member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a health services researcher with a focus on disparities in cancer care delivery and cancer outcomes, particularly among racial/ethnic minority and low-income populations. Dr. (SWAY) Tsui’s research utilizes cancer registry information, health care claims, population-based surveys, and geographic/spatial data to understand multilevel influences on patterns of care and cancer care quality for diverse populations. Her other area of research focuses on HPV vaccination and the implementation of evidence-based strategies to increase uptake in safety-net health care settings.
Pushkar Inamdar, PhD
Data Scientist, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Pushkar Inamdar is a Data Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and also a part of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). His Ph.D. is in the field of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. His previous research experience is in the Geospatial Sciences, including an application of geostatistics in understanding temporal-spatial patterns. Since, joining UCSF, he has gained experience in characterizing neighborhood attributes for epidemiologic studies, including cohort and electronic health records studies as well as conducting geospatial analyses (e.g., spatial autocorrelation, proximity analysis, data wrangling, kriging, geocoding, remote sensing image analysis). He is applying more advanced concepts like deep learning to perform remote sensing data analysis for the neighborhood characterization, and application of machine learning on geospatial datasets to understand underlying patterns of health risk factors and outcomes.
Sandi Pruitt, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sandi L. Pruitt, PhD MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population and Data Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Pruitt uses cancer registry data, electronic health record data, and neighborhood data to better understand geographic, socioeconomic, and racial/ethnic disparities in cancer behaviors and outcomes.
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Social Determinants of Health Part 1
Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 10/21/2020This NAACCR Talk is based on a concurrent session that had been planned for the in person 2020 NAACCR Annual Conference.
Multilevel social stressors and prostate cancer disparities in African American men
Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH; Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
Socioeconomic Disparities in Colon Cancer Survival: Revisiting Neighborhood Poverty using Residential Histories
Daniel Wiese, Doctoral Student, Temple University
Using cancer registries to understand sexual minorities’ cancer survivorship
Ulrike Boehmer, PhD; Boston University School of Public Health
Ethnic Enclaves in Cancer Surveillance and Registry-Based Research among Asian American and Hispanic populations
Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH; University of California, San Francisco
Scarlett Lin Gomez, PhD
Research Scientist & Director, Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
Scarlett Lin Gomez, M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, at the University of California, San Francisco. She is Director of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, a participant in the NCI SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results) program and the California Cancer Registry. Her research focuses primarily on cancer health disparities and aims to understand the multilevel drivers of those disparities.
Daniel Wiese
Doctoral Student, Temple University
DanielWiese is a doctoral student in the department of geography and urban studies atTemple University. Currently he is working on his dissertation undersupervision of Dr. Kevin Henry, and is expected to graduate in May 2021. Hisbackground is in remote sensing and GIS-based spatial modeling. The mainresearch interests include the understanding of geographic disparities incancer incidence and mortality in relation to socio-spatial mobility andneighborhood effects.
Ulrike Boehmer, PhD
Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Ulrike Boehmer, PhD is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Boehmer received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Boston College. Dr. Boehmer’s research interests are in the areas of health disparities, LGBT health, and cancer prevention and control. She is particularly known for her work on LGBT cancer survivorship. Dr. Boehmer is recognized as a leader in LGBT health, especially in the context of cancer. She edited together with Dr. Elk the first book on Cancer and the LGBT population entitled, Cancer and the LGBT Community: Unique perspectives from Risk to Survivorship. She served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women, serves on Scientific Advisory Committees for various NIH grants that focus on LGBT health, and is the Associate Editor of the Journal LGBT Health.
Salma Shariff-Maro, PhD, MPH
Social and Behavioral Scientist, University of California, San Francisco
Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH is a social and behavioral scientist with a research portfolio focused on understanding the role of social determinants of health in shaping and perpetuating health disparities. One main area of her research is on place and health, with studies evaluating how neighborhood characteristics (e.g., social, built, and physical environment attributes) and geographic variation may shape cancer-related health behaviors and outcomes across the cancer continuum. In addition, her research includes efforts to better characterize neighborhoods for population health studies (neighborhood archetypes, virtual audits with Google Street View).
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Focus On Survival
Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 10/07/2020This NAACCR Talk is based on a concurrent session that had been planned for the in person 2020 NAACCR Annual Conference.
Impact of Neighborhood on Survival Among Young Patients with Acute Leukemia in California
Lena Winestone, MD, MS; UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Comprehensive Cancer Survival by Socioeconomic Status in Ontario, Canada, 2006-2011
Ying Wang, MSc; Cancer Care Ontario | Ontario Health
Residential Mobility among adult cancer survivor in the United States, An Analysis of the 2013-2018 National Health Interview Survey
Bian Liu. PhD; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Detailed Melanoma Anatomic Site as predictor or “Upstaging” Treatment
Myles Cockburn, PhD; Colorado School of Public Health
Population-Based, Age-specific Characteristics of Survival for Melanoma Diagnosed in California
Katherine Wojcik, PhD; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Lena Winestone, MD, MS
Pediatric Hematologist-oncologist, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Dr.Lena Winestoneis a pediatric blood and bone marrow transplant specialist with a stronginterest in caring for children with high-risk or relapsed leukemia orlymphoma. She has a focus on using novel immunotherapies – treatments thatimprove the body's own ability to fight cancer – so that patients withtherapy-resistant leukemia can receive successful transplants. Winestone'sresearch explores racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in children'saccess to leukemia treatment, including bone marrow transplant, and in theiroutcomes. Her top priority is ensuring that all children can get the bestpossible treatment as early as possible. Afterearning a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, Winestoneearned her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. She thencompleted a residency in pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children's HospitalStanford and a fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology at theChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia. She also has a master's degree in healthpolicy research from the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School ofMedicine.
Ying Wang, MSc
Biostatistician, Cancer Care Ontario | Ontario Health
Ying Wang holds a Master degree in Statistics from McMaster University and has more than 10 years of experience in statistical analysis and modeling within the health care field. Currently, she works as a Biostatistician /Senior Research Associate at Cancer Care Ontario | Ontario Health. Her expertise includes regression modeling, survival analyses, projections, longitudinal analysis and multi-level modeling. Ying’s work with her colleagues has been published in different journals such as Canadian Journal of Public Health and American Journal of Epidemiology.
Bian Liu, PhD
Environmental Health and Cancer Epidemiologist, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Bian Liu is an environmental health and cancer epidemiologist. She studies how the interplay between the places where people live throughout their lives and factors at the personal, institutional, and neighborhood level impacts their health, behavior, and healthcare utilization. She applies statistical approaches to large databases to uncover geospatial and disparity patterns in exposures and health outcomes. She investigates the health effects of environmental and occupational exposures under normal conditions, as well as in natural/man-made disaster situations.
Myles Cockburn, PHd
Professor, University of Southern California
Dr. Cockburn is a coffee snob, a keen cyclist and runner, and probably drinks too much scotch. In his spare time, he is the Scientific Director of the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program, runs the Cancer Control Program of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and is a Professor of Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences at USC. He also runs a PhD program in epidemiology if you’re interested in a career in academia, and like working 70 hours a week on a barista’s salary. And yes, he was at the University of Colorado for a few years, but they ran out of scotch, so he’s back at USC.
Katherine Wojcick, PhD
Epidemiologist, NCI T32 postdoctoral scholar, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dr. Katherine Wojcik is an epidemiologist and NCI T32 postdoctoral scholar, who is interested in cancer affecting children and young people, primarily the understudied group of adolescents and young adults (AYAs), defined as persons diagnosed with cancer at 15-39 years of age. I have expertise in conducting population-based, cancer-registry studies of AYA cancers, including melanoma, and have been working in public health research for over 10 years.
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Operations to Enhance Data Use and Research
Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 09/30/2020This NAACCR Talk is based on a concurrent session that had been planned for the in person 2020 NAACCR Annual Conference.
The Systematic Application of Case Suppression Criteria to Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data
Laura Thompson, MA, University of Southern California
Using an Environmental Burden Index when Modeling Cancer Incidence in Idaho – 2008-2017
Bozena Morawski, PhD, MPH; Cancer Data Registry of Idaho
Feasibility of Ultra-rapid Reporting of Mesothelioma for Public Health Intervention
Dennis Deapen, DrPH, MPH; Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program
Cancer Registry Data Linkage of Electronic Health Record Data from ASVO’s CancerLinQ: Evaluation of Advantages, Limitations, and Lessons Learned
Amanda Kahl, MPH; State Health Registry of Iowa
Laura Thompson, MA
Program Analyst, University of Southern California, Department of Preventative Medicine
Laura Thompson is a Programmer Analyst at the University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine. She has an MA in Geography and primarily supports the department with geographic data analysis aimed at understanding spatial uncertainty in cancer control. Her ongoing work involves the application of novel spatial analysis methods in an exploration of the effects of residential ambient pesticide exposure on cancer incidence. Laura also supports research related to understanding spatial differences in cancer diagnosis, burden and treatment outcomes.
Bozena Morawski, PhD, MPH
Epidemiologist
Cancer Data Registry of Idaho
Bozena Morawski received a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota and an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Morawski is an epidemiologist at the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho. Her research interests include vulnerable and minority populations, infectious disease-associated cancers, and analysis of cancer data by geography. She is a member of the CiNA Editorial Work Group and coauthor of the CiNA Prevalence Volume.
Dennis Deapen, DrPH, MPH
Epidemiologist, Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program - USCer
Dennis Deapen is Professor of Preventive Medicine at the USC School of Medicine. He has been Director of the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP) since 1988. The CSP functions in the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and is also a member of the California Cancer Registry and the SEER Program. He received a MPH from Loma Linda University and Doctor of Public Health from UCLA. He has been an epidemiologist since 1977 conducting research in etiology, prevention and survivorship of cancer. He has created or led large, long-term cohort studies of cancer risk. Most recently he initiated the Virtual Pooled Registry which creates the capacity for linking cancer epidemiology cohort studies with all US cancer registries simultaneously. He has been author or co-author of over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He served as President of NAACCR and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Cancer Registries.
Amanda Kahl, MPH
Research Specialist, State Health Registry of Iowa
Amanda Kahl is an epidemiologist and researcher at the Iowa Cancer Registry. who has conducted studies of data quality and completeness of cancer registry data, assessed the quality of data linkages with registry data, and examined the associations between viral infections and cancer in Iowa.
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Revised Common Rule
Contains 4 Component(s)The revised Common Rule (effective January 21, 2019) is designed to strengthen protections for study participants and lighten administrative workloads for researchers and IRBs alike. These changes impact how research studies involving linkage with cancer registries, like those managed through NAACCR’s Virtual Pooled Registry, will be reviewed and processed across the country. NAACCR has partnered with the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) to share information on the revised Common Rule, such as when research involving registries requires IRB review and the impact of the changes on research covered by the revised regulations. Intended Audience: State/University IRBs and staff from central cancer registries involved in linking with research studies and releasing coded cancer data for matched cases.
The revised Common Rule (effective January 21, 2019) is designed to strengthen protections for study participants and lighten administrative workloads for researchers and IRBs alike. These changes impact how research studies involving linkage with cancer registries, like those managed through NAACCR’s Virtual Pooled Registry, will be reviewed and processed across the country. NAACCR has partnered with the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) to share information on the revised Common Rule, such as when research involving registries requires IRB review and the impact of the changes on research covered by the revised regulations.
Intended Audience: State/University IRBs and staff from central cancer registries involved in linking with research studies and releasing coded cancer data for matched cases.
Jaime Hernandez, J.D.; M.Be.
Management and Program Analyst, Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP)
Jaime (Hi May) Hernandez is an attorney and bioethicist at the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Before joining OHRP, Mr. Hernandez was a Senior Research Investigator at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Prior to that, he was a Litigation Associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, L.L.P. He also served as an Administrator for the social and behavioral science IRB at the University of Pennsylvania, Office of Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Hernandez obtained his Juris Doctorate (J.D.) at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and his Masters in Bioethics (M.Be.) at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine.
Misti Anderson, MS, MA
Senior Advisor, Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP)
Misti Anderson serves as a Senior Advisor for Public Health Education in the Division of Education and Development of the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). Prior to joining OHRP, Ms. Anderson was a Senior Policy and Research Analyst at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, where she served as staff lead for the Bioethics Commission’s educational materials and for both volumes of the Bioethics Commission’s Gray Matters report on neuroscience and ethics. She holds an M.S. in Biomedical Science Policy and Advocacy from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Science Education from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a B.S. in Microbiology from Clemson University.
Castine Clerkin, MS, CTR
VPR Program Manager, NAACCR
Castine is the Program Manager for NAACCR’s Virtual Pooled Registry project. In this role she oversees all aspects of the project, from pilot linkages to workgroup calls to system development and testing. Prior to joining NAACCR, Castine was a Program Consultant with CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries for over 7 years. Castine began her career in cancer surveillance in 2001, working as the epidemiologist and data manager for the Maine Cancer Registry.
Steve Friedman, MHA
Senior Advisor, Surveillance Research Program, NCI/DCCPS
SteveFriedman, MHA, joined the Surveillance Research Program as a Senior Advisor forOperations in July of 2015. He works on several major initiatives, includingSEER, Natural Language Processing (NLP), the Virtual Bio-Repository (VTR) andthe Virtual Pooled Registry (VPR). In January 2018 he was named the LeadContracting Officer Representative (COR) for the SEER Program. Mr. Friedmanserved as a founding Director for the Association for the Accreditation ofHuman Research Protection Programs and is a past President of the Board for theUlmanCancer Fund for Young Adults. He is the recipient of several NIH Merit Awardsand a NIH Director’s Award. Mr. Friedman received his Master of Health ServicesAdministration from the George Washington University and is currently AdjunctFaculty with the MPH@GWU program.
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Informatics Tools and Processes for the XML Data Exchange Standard
Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 07/22/2020The XML webinar will be covering NAACCR XML Informatics Tools and Processes to prepare the NAACCR community for 2021. We will have 4 presentations from several software vendors and central registries that have either already made the transition to XML or are about to finish and would like to share their software, tips, and techniques with the NAACCR community.
The XML webinar will be covering NAACCR XML Informatics Tools and Processes to prepare the NAACCR community for 2021. We will have 4 presentations from several software vendors and central registries that have either already made the transition to XML or are about to finish and would like to share their software, tips, and techniques with the NAACCR community.
Fabian Depry
Senior Systems Analyst; Information Management Services
Fabian Depry, focuses on the design and implementation of biomedical computer systems. He has extensive experience and expertise in systems design and object-oriented programming, focusing mainly on Java Desktop and Web applications. Mr. Depry is a lead developer and designer on the SEER*DMS project. He also designed and developed the SEER Abstracting tool, the SEER*Edits Submission tool and the SEER Data Viewer tool. Mr Depry holds a BS in Computer Science from Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium and a MS in Computer Science from Hood College, Frederick. He has been with IMS since 2003.
Valerie Yoder, BS
Database Analyst
Utah Cancer Registry
Valerie Yoder has a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science with a focus on algorithms and data processing. She has worked in the Utah Cancer Registry Informatics department for five years processing, extracting, and analyzing data. She continuously explores process improvements and automation for registry operations and research and has successfully integrated several new and changing data sources. Previously, she worked for many years developing procedures to process and analyze pre-clinical medical imaging data with programming and scientific software.
Isaac Hands
Lead Software Architect, Kentucky Cancer Registry
Isaac Hands leads the software development efforts of the Kentucky Cancer Registry andassist in managing informatics operations, providing technical leadership, anddesigning data infrastructure at the Kentucky Cancer Registry and the UK MarkeyCancer Center Research Informatics Core. Mr. Hands oversees the software development,database and network operations, and customer support of the state-wide cancerpatient data management system in use at all hospital facilities in KY and thestatewide SEER/NPCR central cancer registry software.
Michelle Esterly
Employed by Katmai Government Services
Michelle Esterly received her B.S. in Health Information Administration from Gwynedd Mercy University and achieved certification as a Registered Health Information Administrator in 1997. She worked for the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry in various positions before joining the CDC Registry Plus Team as a contractor in 2015. Ms. Esterly has six years of experience in hospital cancer registries and received her CTR in 1996. Ms. Esterly is currently employed by Katmai Government Services and is a contractor for the National Program of Cancer Registries Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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NAACCR 2020 Virtual Conference - June 23 - June 25
Contains 10 Component(s)NAACCR 2020 Virtual Conference: Cancer Surveillance: Keystone of Progress
NAACCR 2020 Virtual Conference: Cancer Surveillance: Keystone of Progress
Plenary Session 1: Future Directions in Cancer Surveillance Standards and Data Collections
Cloud Computing and the STAR Project
Dr. Lisa Richardson; Director; CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC)
New Directions and Rationale - CoC
Dr. Lawrence Shulman; Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
CAP Cancer Protocols and e-Cancer Reporting
Dr. Samantha Spencer; Director, Structured Reporting; College of American Pathologists
Tapping Non-Traditional Data Sources
Dr. Lynne Penberthy; Associate Director; NCI-SEER
Plenary Session 2: Advances in Pediatric Cancer and Surveillance
Pediatric Health Information System - Understanding the Differences
Dr. Richard Aplenc; Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
National Childhood Cancer Registry
Dr. Dennis Deapen; Director of LA Cancer Surveillance Program, Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine; University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Results of the Childhood Cancer Survivors Study Match with the Virtual Pooled Registry
Dr. Gregory T. Armstrong; Member; Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Childhood Cancer Staging Guidelines- Toronto Staging Guidelines
Dr. Sumit Gupta; Staff Oncologist and Clinician Investigator Hematology/Oncology; SickKids, University of Toronto
Plenary Session 3: Social Determinants and Cancer
Introduction of Social Determinants of Cancer
Scarlett Lin Gomez; Co-Investigator; Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
Visually Assessed Socio-Physical Environment Linked to a Cancer Registry: Application to Breast Cancer Survival Disparities
Dr. Jesse John Plascak; Instructor of Epidemiology; Rutgers University
Economic Burden of Cancer
Dr. Robin Yabroff, Senior Scientific Director, American Cancer Society
Plenary Session 4: Cancer Informatics
Cancer Surveillance and Bioinformatics
Dr. Warren Kibbe; Chief Data Officer; Duke Cancer Institute
Collection of Pathomic Data in Central Cancer Registries
Dr. David J. Foran; Chief Informatics Officer and Director of Biomedical Informatics & Computational Imaging, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Informatics and Cancer Registries
Dr. Georgia Tourassi
Informatics and Natural Language Processing in Canada
Dr. Marshall Pitz; Chief Medical Information Officer; CancerCare Manitoba
Plenary Session 5: NCI/NAACCR Zone Design for Cancer Reporting Project and CDC Pilot Project to Visualize Cancer Data at the Sub-County Level
NCI/NAACCR Zone Design Project Overview, Challenges, Current Status, and Steps Forward
Diane Ng; Westat
CaliforniaHealthMaps.org: Moving Beyond County Statistics to More Meaningful Geographies
Dr. Debby Oh; Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
The NCI/NAACCR Cancer Reporting Zone Project: Selecting the Preferred Zone Geography Alternative in Idaho
Christopher Johnson; Cancer Data Registry of Idaho
CDC Pilot Project to Visualize Cancer Data at Sub-County Level
S. Jane Hanley; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Topics in AI/AN Cancer Surveillance
Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 05/20/2020AI/AN people experience a different burden of cancer than their non-Native counterparts. This webinar will discuss current issues in AI/AN cancer surveillance, and present research that aims to describe and understand cancer among Indigenous peoples in the US and Canada.
AI/AN people experience a different burden of cancer than their non-Native counterparts. This webinar will discuss current issues in AI/AN cancer surveillance, and present research that aims to describe and understand cancer among Indigenous peoples in the US and Canada.
Addressing racial misclassification for AIAN people in cancer surveillance presented by Melissa Jim, CDC
Misclassification of AI/AN as non-AI/AN in cancer surveillance has resulted in the underestimation of the cancer incidence in these populations. I routinely link Indian Health Service (IHS) patient registration data with data from central cancer registries that are part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program. I will describe our IHS linkage and demonstrate how to find AI/AN cancer data by IHS Region on the United States Cancer Statistics: Data Visualizations website. Accurate cancer data is crucial to develop public health strategies and programs to address cancer disparities.
Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center – Sharing cancer data with Tribal populations in the PNW present by Sujata Joshi and Rosamaria Frutos, NPAIHB
The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) will present on how we obtain and utilize cancer surveillance data to support community-based cancer intervention and education projects in Northwest tribal communities. We will briefly discuss our efforts to obtain linkage-corrected cancer data, how we communicate the data to tribal partners, and provide examples of how tribes have utilized data for prevention efforts.
Stomach Cancer Incidence and Mortality Trends among Circumpolar Populations-presented by Jonathan Simkin, BC Cancer
Stomach cancer is largely preventable. Despite declining trends in stomach cancer incidence and mortality among many circumpolar nations, the stomach cancer burden does not appear equally distributed among regional sub-populations, including Indigenous peoples. Here, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of stomach cancer incidence and mortality trends among circumpolar nations and regional populations using population-based data and discuss trends in relation to regional risk factors.
Rosamaria Frutos
Cancer Project Coordinator
Rosa Frutos is the Cancer Project Coordinator at Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and helps coordinate the Northwest Tribal Comprehensive Cancer Program funded by CDC’s Comprehensive Cancer Control Grant. She graduated from the University of Washington with a Masters in Social Work and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
Sujata Joshi
Project Director
Sujata Joshi is the Project Director of NPAIHB’s Improving Data and Enhancing Access-Northwest project, which works to expand Northwest Tribes’ access to accurate and timely health data. Ms. Joshi obtained her MSPH in Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health, and has worked in tribal epidemiology for 9 years.
Melissa Jim
Epidemiologist
Melissa A. Jim, MPH (Diné) is an Epidemiologist with the Cancer Surveillance Branch in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that working in collaboration with the Indian Health Service Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention in Albuquerque, NM. She has been with the Cancer Surveillance Branch for over 15 years. Prior to working at CDC she worked at the New Mexico Tumor Registry.
Jonathan Simkin
Scientific Director
Jonathan Simkin is the Scientific Director at the British Columbia Cancer Registry, Vancouver, Canada. He completed a Master’s of Public Health at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Population and Public Health, UBC, Canada. His research focuses on applications of geospatial methods to cancer surveillance and population oncology research. Jonathan has worked at cancer registries since 2015, previously working with the Yukon Cancer Registry as a Cancer Epidemiologist.
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