Welcome to our Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) quarterly newsletter. The goal in producing this newsletter is to keep our members informed and involved. We are highlighting opportunities for collaborations, new funding opportunities, new grants and promotions, new personnel, and upcoming seminars and events. We always welcome your
suggestions
and contributions for future issues.
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Aiming to reduce cancer risk, improve the
understanding of cancer outcomes, and promote cancer health equity in our most vulnerable populations at the community level, the Rutgers School of Public Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey have recruited
Anita Y. Kinney, PhD, RN,
as Director of the Center of Cancer Health Disparities at the Rutgers School of Public Health and Associate Director of Cancer Health Equity and Engagement at Rutgers Cancer Institute. Click
here
to read more.
Please welcome our newest Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) member!
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Recent Presentations/Events
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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Trainee Seminar Series
Annie Yang, second year medical student
,
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), presented at the Rutgers Cancer Institute Trainee Seminar Series on her summer fellowship work with
Dr. Jennifer Tsui
on August 3rd. Yang also presented at the New
York Academy of Medicine in New York City on August 9th. Yang's talks were entitled, "
Patterns of End-of-Life Care among New Jersey Medicaid Beneficiaries with Advanced Breast and Colorectal Cancer."
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Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC)
Monthly Meeting - August
Kathryn L. Greene, PhD, MA,
Professor, Department of Communication, Rutgers University presented at the CPC Monthly Meeting on August 13, 2018. Dr. Greene's talk was entitled,
“Active Involvement in Intervention Development: A Brief Media Literacy Approach to Adolescent Substance use Prevention.”
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Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC)
Monthly Meeting - July
Kuang-Ti Wen, PhD
, Assistant Professor, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center was the guest speaker for the CPC Monthly Meeting on July 17, 2018. Her talk was entitled, "
A Text Messaging-based Intervention for Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy: Study Findings and Lesson Learned.
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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Grand Rounds
Jonine L. Bernstein, PhD
, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program Co-leader, Population Sciences Research Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center was the guest speaker for the Rutgers Cancer Institute Grand Rounds on June 20, 2018. Dr. Bernstein's talk was entitled, "
The Genetic Epidemiology of Radiation Associated Contralateral Breast Cancer
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Anita Kinney, PhD, RN,
Professor and
Director, Center of Cancer Health Disparities at the Rutgers School of Public Health and Associate Director of Cancer Health Equity and Engagement at Rutgers Cancer Institute presented at the
European Society of Health Psychology Presentations on
August 23 & 24, 2018 in Galway, Ireland. Her talks were entitled, "
Colorectal cancer survivors’ interest in genomic testing to guide communication about recurrence risk managemen
t" (Symposium) and "
Feasibility Randomized Trial of Risk Communication Interventions for Promoting Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment
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M. Jane Lewis, DrPH
, Associate Professor, Rutgers SPH, presented at the Partner Information X-Change 2018: Building Strong Foundations for Tobacco Control on August 7, 2018 in Indianapolis, IN. Her talk was entitled, "
That’s a Tobacco Product?"
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Cris Delnevo,
PhD, MPH,
Professor and Director of the Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers SPH, was an invited presenter and group facilitator at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) E-cigarette Subcommittee of the Tobacco and Nicotine Research Interest Group
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) Measurement Workshop
which was held at NCI’s Shady Grove campus in July, 2018.
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Cris Delnevo,
PhD, MPH,
Professor and Director of the Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers SPH, and
Olivia Wackowski, PhD, MPH
, Assistant Professor, Rutgers SPH presented at the NIH Tobacco Regulatory Science Conference, Bethesda, MD, June 2018. Their talks were entitled,
"Impact of e-cigarette warnings on young adults’ e-cigarette perceptions and use intentions"
and "
Impact of cigarillo packaging characteristics on consumer perceptions
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Adana Llanos Wilson, PhD, MPH,
Assistant Professor,
Rutgers SPH presented at the
Flash Talk:
2018 NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) Professional Development Workshop in Rockville, MD on June 28, 2018. Her talk was entitled,
“Leptin and Leptin Receptor Expression: Associations with Breast Cancer Clinicopathology?”
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Rutgers Names Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD
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Rutgers School of Public Health was appointed to the role of Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.
In Dr. Demissie's new role as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, he will join the leadership of the school and manage faculty appointments, reappointments, and evaluations; assist in hiring, retention, and promotion; implement strategies to enhance faculty diversity; develop and implement systems to support faculty mentoring; and other duties to ensure faculty success. Dr. Demissie’s appointment is effective immediately. Please join us in congratulating him on this wonderful achievement. Click
here
to read more.
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Rutgers Faculty Receives Excellence in Research Award from New Jersey
Health Foundation
Adana Llanos Wilson, PhD, MPH,
Assistant Professor,
Rutgers SPH, has received the 2018 Excellence in Research Award from the New Jersey Health Foundation. D
r. Llanos, a molecular epidemiologist, is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and full member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program
.
Please join us in congratulating her on this wonderful achievement. Click
here
to read more.
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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey-Newark
at University Hospital receives full accreditation
Stanley H. Weiss, MD, FACP, FACE,
Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology served as one of the key personnel for the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey-Newark at University Hospital, also serving as the Cancer Liaison Physician & Oncology Committee Vice-chair. The site was visited in June 2018 by the Commission on Cancer, and was awarded full accreditation with five commendations.
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New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Margaret E. Mahoney Fellowship Award
Annie Yang, second year medical student
(pictured left),
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School was awarded the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Margaret E. Mahoney Fellowship Award for su
mmer 2018 under the guidance of Dr. Jennifer Tsui on the New Jersey Medicaid Cancer Cohort Study.
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$3M Grant Supports Rutgers Initiative to Study
Tobacco 21 Laws: NCI Grant funding may aid in strengthening policy to impede tobacco use and improve the health of young people
Cris Delnevo,
PhD, MPH,
Professor and Director of the Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers SPH, and
Shawna Hudson, PhD
,
Professor and Research Division Chief, Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers RWJMS have been awarded
an R01 entitled “
Adoption, diffusion, and implementation of Tobacco 21 policies to address health disparities.
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Using this new grant, researchers from Rutgers School of Public Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey will examine how the adoption, implementation and maintenance of these policies impacts public health outcomes, while also using the evidence to determine the impact on racial and ethnic disparities. Click
here
to read more.
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Sharon Manne, PhD
, Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Research at Rutgers Cancer Institute has been awarded a National Cancer Institute(NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant entitled, "
Facebook Intervention for Young Onset Melanoma Patients and Families."
Co-investigators: Drs. Sherry Pagoto, UCONN, David Buller, UT, Rosemary Cress, CA SEER, Susan Peterson, MD Anderson,
Jeffrey Gershenwald, MD Anderson, Rosalyn Negron, UMASS,
Pamela Ohman-Strickland, Rutgers SPH,
Antoinette Stroup, Rutgers SPH, Elliot Coups, Rutgers Cancer Institute, and Babar Rao, RWJMS.
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Jesse Plascak, PhD, MPH,
Instructor of Epidemiology,
Rutgers School of Public Health
Dr. Jesse Plascak has been awarded a National Cancer Institute (NCI) K07 Career Development Grant titled "
Social Environmental Factors, DNA methylation of inflammation genes and Breast Cancer Survivorship among African American Women
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Mentors: Drs. Kitaw Demissie,
Elisa Bandera, Helmut Zarbl, Mingzhu Fang, and Zhiqiang Tan along with Drs. Mario Schootman, St. Louis University and Andrew Rundle, Columbia University
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Bonnie Qin, PhD
, Research Associate,
Population Science, Rutgers Cancer Institute
Dr. Qin was awarded a National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant on her K99 grant entitled, "
A Multilevel Approach to Cardiovascular Health in African American Breast Cancer Survivors: from Neighborhoods to Metabolomics."
Mentors: Drs. Elisa Bandera, Rutgers Cancer Institute, Kitaw Demissie, Rutgers SPH, Eileen White, Rutgers Cancer Institute, Ana Diez Roux, Drexel School of Public Health, and Chi-Chen Hong, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Collaborators: Drs. Yong Lin, Rutgers SPH and Jesse Plascak, Rutgers SPH
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Adrienne Viola, MPH, MD/PhD Candidate
Rutgers RWJMS/SPH
Adrienne was awarded a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute F30 (MD/PhD Fellowship) grant entitled,
“
The Feasibility of a Medical Student Mentoring Program to Improve Transition of Care Among Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease.
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Mentors: Katie Devine and Elliot Coups, Rutgers Cancer Institute
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Stanley H. Weiss, MD, FACP, FACE,
Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Rutgers NJMS, Professor of Epidemiology, SPH
Dr. Weiss has received two one-year grants as Principal Investigator: 1) NJ Department of Health, Office of Cancer Control & Prevention for a 16
th
year of continuous funding, "
Essex Passaic Chronic Disease Coalition" (a.k.a. Essex-Passaic Wellness Coalition, (EPWC), the successor to
the Essex County Cancer Coalition 2)
“NJ Methadone Maintenance Subject Recruitment for Genomic Analyses and Repository Expansion.”
Co-investigator on both projects:
Daniel M. Rosenblum, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Rutgers SPH
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Upcoming Events - Save the Date
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CIPT-CPC Retreat
Goal
: To facilitate inter-programmatic research between the members of both programs.
Date
: Friday, September 7, 2018
Time
: 9:30 am to 11:30 am
Location
: Rutgers
Cancer Institute of New Jersey,
195 Little Albany St. Auditorium A & B
If you are interested in joining, please RSVP
here
if you have not already done so
.
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Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Program Monthly Meetings
Please join us at the next CPC Program meeting on
Monday, September 17, 3:00-4:00 pm,
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ. The presenter will be
Stacy N. Davis, PhD, MPH
, Rutgers School of Public Health.
Refreshments will be provided.
Click
here
for full list of upcoming 2018 and 2019 CPC meetings.
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2018 Annual CPC Retreat
Goal:
To review where we are and discuss where we would like to be as a program.
Date
: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Time
: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location
:
Rutgers
Cancer Institute of New Jersey,
195 Little Albany St. Auditorium A & B
If you are interested in joining, please RSVP
here
if you have not already done so.
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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Distinguished Lecture Series
Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, MD
, Director, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institute of Health will be the guest speaker for the Rutgers Cancer Institute Distinguished Lecture Series on
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
at
4:00pm
,
Rutgers
Cancer Institute of New Jersey,
195 Little Albany St. Auditorium A. Dr. Perez-Stable's talk is entitled, "
Race/Ethnicity, SES, and Place in Cancer Health Disparities
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Upcoming Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Program Monthly Meetings
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Join us on
Thursday, October 4, 3:00-4:00 pm,
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ
for a special presentation by
Marianne Berwick, PhD, MPH,
Distinguished Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, secondary appointment Department of Dermatology, The University of New Mexico. Click
here
to learn more about Dr. Berwick.
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Join us on
Monday, October 15, 3:00-4:00 pm,
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ. The presenter will be
Alan Geller, MPH, RN,
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Director, Melanoma Epidemiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Adjunct Associate Professor (research), Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Boston University. Click
here
to learn more about Mr. Geller.
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference
The 11th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved will be held on
November 2 - 5, 2018
. Click
here
for registration details.
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We welcome our newest CPC members:
Click member's name to read their researcher profile.
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Publications
For a full list of recent manuscripts, abstracts, and presentations please visit the
CPC webpage
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Employment Opportunities
Open Population Science position(s):
Faculty:
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News to share?
We invite you to send your news and updates to be considered for publication in an upcoming issue of
The CPC Newsletter
. Please note: All news items must adhere to Rutgers editorial guidelines and Associated Press style; accepted submissions may be edited in accordance with those guidelines. If you also have an accompanying photo you would like to be considered, please submit a high-resolution, print-quality image that is 300 dpi.
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