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Events of the ICC and its Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partners
CANCERcare Telephone Education Workshops
CANCERcare is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide free, professional support services to anyone affected by cancer: people with cancer, caregivers, children, loved ones, and the bereaved. CANCERcare programs - including counseling, education, financial assistance and practical help - are provided by trained oncology social workers and are completely free of charge. One of those services is their ongoing series of Telephone Education Workshops.
If you haven't already listed the workshops on your calendar, the link to their website is www.cancercare.org/tew.
For more information contact Diana Napoli (dnapoli@cancercare.org) at 212-712-8430.
Other Events of Interest
Fourth Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Conference
Cancer Survivorship Research: Mapping the New Challenges
Call for Abstracts
June 18 - 20, 2008
Atlanta, GA
The theme of the 2008 conference is Cancer Survivorship Research: Mapping the New Challenges. This conference is co-sponsored by the American Cancer Society’s Behavioral Research Center, the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Survivorship, and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. They encourage the submission of abstracts relevant to the theme of the conference. Areas of research could include:
1) Late or long-term medical or psychosocial adverse effects of cancer or its treatment. Submissions in this area based on samples of survivors from understudied groups are especially encouraged (e.g., understudied cancer sites, age groups, geographic locations, ethnocultural background, or socioeconomic status).
2) Interventions, including behavioral, lifestyle, psychological, and medical interventions.
3) The post-treatment care of cancer survivors, including medical, psychosocial, or behavioral aspects of care as well as studies examining models of optimal care.
4) Caregiver and family studies, including research that examines the psychological, spiritual, or physical health and health behaviors of family members and informal caregivers (family and friends).
5) Trans-disciplinary studies that address multiple survivorship domains or outcomes, such as studies that combine psychosocial and medical variables or psychoneuroimmunologic research.
Deadline for abstract submission is midnight (EST), January 16, 2008.
If you have questions about the conference, please email survivorship.conference@cancer.org.
Please direct any questions regarding abstract content to the program chairs: Noreen M. Aziz, MD, PhD, MPH (na45f@nih.gov; 301.496.0598 or Tenbroek Smith, MA (404.327.6442)
For more information click here.
5th Annual Meeting on the NCI's cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid - caBIG™ - initiative (Annual Meeting)
Sponsored by: NCI (Free and open to the public)
June 23 – 25, 2008
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
Researchers, technologists, and visionaries will gather in Washington, D.C. on June 23-25, 2008 to drive a revolution in biomedical research at the National Cancer Institute's 2008 cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG™) Annual Meeting. Exciting sessions and events are planned, including a "caBIG(tm) World's Fair" exhibition with posters and demonstrations showing caBIG™ in action. Attendees will also learn more about the Enterprise Support Network dedicated to helping the caBIG™ community reach its research goals. For more information and to register, please visit: https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/2008AnnualMeeting/.
Race and Class Inequalities in Health **call for abstracts**
June 24 - 27, 2008
Chicago, IL
They are looking for conceptual and data-based papers for presentation at the annual Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) meeting in 2008. The overall theme of the SER meetings is the social determinants of health. There will be a contributed paper session on Race and Class Inequalities in Health and they encourage those of you working in this area to submit abstracts of your work. Accepted abstracts will be distributed at the June meeting and will also be published in a Supplement issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Abstracts must be submitted online at the following web address: http://epiresearch.org/abstracts/. Submissions will be accepted until February 1, 2008, 11:59 p.m. EST. For inquiries about this specific session on Race and Class Inequalities in Health, contact Irene Yen (irene.yen@ucsf.edu) or Pat O'Campo (pat.ocampo@utoronto.ca). For information about the conference, please visit the SER website www.epiresearch.org.
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Cancer Survivorship Conference: Dispelling Myths, Reducing Disparities, Providing Hope
July 22 - 24, 2008
Sheraton Gateway San Francisco Hotel
Burlingame, CA
For more information contact: Mavis Nitta, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, mnitta@apiahf.org.
10th Anniversary Annual National African American Breast Cancer Conference and Day of Wellness - Sisters Network, Inc.
September 19 - 21, 2008
Houston, TX
For more information click here.
LATINO CAUCUS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
136th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association
October 25 - 29, 2008
Public Health Without Borders
San Diego, CA
The Scientific Program Subcommittee of the APHA Latino Caucus invites students, educators, researchers, health professionals, and community members to submit their research, practice, and policy findings for dissemination at the annual conference. They are looking for scientific papers that address the issues affecting Latinos with a particular focus on this year's conference theme of public health without borders. Caucus members have identified several sub-themes that will be organized and presented as either an oral presentation, roundtable discussion or poster session. Electronic submission is required (http://www.apha.org/meetings) and the deadline is February 4, 2008.
American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus Call for Abstracts
136th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association
October 25 - 29, 2008
San Diego, CA
The American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian (AIANNH) Caucus invites abstracts for papers that address the theme of the 2008 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting, "Public Health Without Borders" and general topics addressing AIANNH populations. The Caucus also invites papers that specifically address the following but are not limited to: Aging, Alaska Native issues, American Indian issues, Cancer, Chronic diseases, Diabetes, Epidemiology, Infectious diseases, Injury, Maternal Child Health, Native Hawaiian issues, Violence. Electronic submission is required (http://www.apha.org/meetings) and the deadline is February 4, 2008.
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