CDC Twitter Chat about Breast Cancer Disparities on 11/15

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 11/14/2012 03:32 PM EST

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Join CDC and BlackDoctor.org for a Vital Signs Twitter chat about breast cancer disparities on Thursday, November 15, at 2:00 PM ET. Participants will talk about differences in screening, treatment, and quality of care.

The chat will be led by Lisa Richardson, MD, MPH, Associate Director for Science in CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, and Arica White, PhD, MPH, Senior Service Fellow.

Drs. Richardson and White will answer questions and share insights from their work in the field. Dr. Richardson served as the medical director of CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer and Early Detection Program, which is the only organized screening program for low-income and uninsured women in the United States. Dr. White’s research explores racial, ethnic, and geographic differences in breast and colorectal cancer treatment and survival.

Are you a health care provider? We hope you’ll share your strategies for making sure patients get the screening and treatments they need on time. Are you a breast cancer survivor? What advice do you wish someone had shared with you? Join the chat and share your advice with others.

Follow the chat using the hashtag #VSChat.

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Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH

Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH, is DCPC’s Associate Director for Science. Her primary responsibilities include collaborating with DCPC’s director in setting scientific priorities and working with Division staff to maintain a high caliber of scientific integrity in public health activities.
Dr. Richardson’s previous experience has well-positioned her for the lead role in ensuring an interface between programmatic activities and scientific investigations within the Division. From 1997 to 1998, she served as the medical director for the National Breast and Cervical Cancer and Early Detection Program, which is the only organized screening program for low-income uninsured women in the United States. From 1998 to 2000, she was a medical officer in CDC's Division of Blood Disorders, where her main responsibility was to monitor new HIV and hepatitis B and C infections among persons with hemophilia. From 2000 to 2004, Dr. Richardson was a faculty member at the University of Florida in Medical Oncology and collaborated extensively with the Florida Cancer Data System, one of the 48 programs funded by the National Program of Cancer Registries. She returned to CDC in 2004 as a medical officer in the Division’s Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Richardson served as the team lead for Scientific Support and Clinical Translation Team, which supports the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program.
Dr. Richardson received her medical degree and Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master in Public Health from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine residency and hematology/medical oncology fellowship at the University of Florida, School of Medicine. She continues to provide clinical services to cancer patients at the Atlanta Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. Dr. Richardson is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
Dr. Richardson’s education and medical training have shaped her research interests which range from the caring for the individual to broader public health based system changes. She has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles on breast cancer treatment patterns of care, health-related quality of life during cancer treatment, access to cancer care, systems of care, health disparities and racial discrimination.

Dr. Richardson is featured in the following podcasts—

Dr. Richardson is also featured in CDC Expert on Medscape: New Tool to Prevent Infections During Chemotherapy

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CDC - Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH, of CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control

Arica White, PhD, MPH

Arica White, PhD, MPH, is a Senior Service Fellow in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC's) Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch. In July 2009, she joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in DCPC. Her research interests focus on understanding disparities in cancer screening, treatment, quality of care, and survivorship. Dr. White leads research projects exploring racial/ethnic and geographic disparities in breast and colorectal cancer treatment, mortality, and survival.
Dr. White also has a strong interest in using cancer registry data, especially when linked to other outcomes datasets, to research cancer prevention and control. She is a certified tumor registrar and has experience working as a research analyst in a state cancer registry. She was instrumental in creating the nation's first bachelor's degree program in cancer registration, which was an effort to address the shortage of cancer registrars in the workforce.
Dr. White completed her undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University, and earned her master of public health degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also completed a PhD in epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH). During her tenure at UTSPH, she was predoctoral fellow in the Cancer Education and Career Development Program, a training grant funded by the National Cancer Institute.
The most recent articles Dr. White has first-authored include—