Otis W. Brawley, MD│HP/CHIBE/PC3I/CCP Research Seminar

Speaker(s)

• Otis W. Brawley, MD — Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University

Location

Event Description

Health Policy/CHIBE/Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation/Cancer Control Program Research Seminar

Cancer Control in the 21st Century: Observations on Disparities in Health

Attendees may attend virtually. Zoom link here.

The talk objectives include:

• Discuss trends in cancer death rate over the past three decades.
• Define disparities in health.
• Discuss some solutions and health equity.

Otis W. Brawley, MD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He is an authority on cancer screening and prevention and leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort focused on cancer health disparities at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Brawley is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and one of the few physicians to be named a Master of the American College of Physicians. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Brawley is a graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at Case-Western Reserve University and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. He is board certified in Internal medicine and medical oncology.

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