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- At the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat 2019 (PCF 2019), Alicia Morgans is joined by the four women leaders and organizers of the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Women in Science Forum 2019. Himisha Beltran, Lorelei Mucci, Karen Knudsen, and Amina Zoubeidi each share their insights and motivations for leading the forum. Each of these professionals is moving the field forward...
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- President and CEO of Myovant Sciences, Lynn Seely, MD joins Alicia Morgans, MD and shares highlights of her career journey also presented in her keynote during the 4th Annual PCF Women in Science Forum at the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat (PCF 2019). Dr. Seely shares elements from her career journey including her internship and residency in internal medicine at Yale, he...
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- Eric Ballon-Landa joins Gordon Brown at the first Rising Chief Residents Summit, a Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) organized meeting. The Rising Chief Resident Summit aims to support post-graduate year 4 and 5 residents during their transition to full-time practice. In this video discussion, Dr. Ballon-Landa shares why he chose to pursue urology. He shares advice on the interview...
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- Four Rising Chief Residents join Gordon Brown at the 2019 Rising Chief Resident Summit in short discussion offering their personal take on what drove them to decide on urology as a career path and deciding on surgery versus medicine. They share some of the decisions they weighed in making these choices and valuable insights for those in the position today, that are looking at that choice in front...
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- Kosj Yamoah and Ngozi Ekeke join Charles Ryan to discuss the problem of prostate cancer in Africa. There is an increase in incidence and mortality as well as a late diagnosis of prostate cancer in Africa. The three discuss some of the obstacles that patients face such as lack of health education, pharmaco-ethnicity problems, high out-of-pocket costs, and geographic challenges. Biographies: Kosj Ya...
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- Elisabeth Heath from the Karmanos Cancer Institute joins Alicia Morgans in a passionate conversation on the importance of patient advocacy, education, and the impact advocacy has on a cancer patients' journey. What resources are out there? How do we really help patients do the best that they can? How do you find advocacy organizations in your community? and, How do you get involved? Drs. Heath and...
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- Four Rising Chief Residents join Gordon Brown at the 2019 Rising Chief Resident Summit in a discussion offering invaluable advice for the application process and steps you can take to position yourself above the rest when applying for a residency. The Rising Chief Residents Summit is put together by the Large Urology Group Practice Association. This summit aims to support post-graduate year 4 and...
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- Tom Stringer joins Neal Shore to share highlights of his presentation at the first Rising Chief Residents Summit put together by the Large Urology Group Practice Association. This summit aims to support post-graduate year 4 and 5 residents during their transition to full-time practice. Dr. Stringer presented on crucial topics including vetting employment contracts, pursuing a career in academia, h...
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- Neal Shore and Gordon Brown discuss the advanced prostate cancer clinics in large urology group practices (LUGPA). Gordon provides insight into supporting patient care within the urology practice as they scale the advanced prostate cancer clinic into a GU oncology care model. The advanced prostate cancer clinic is a clinical pathway and guidelines driven with physician champions using the NCCN and...
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- Tom Farrington and Alicia Morgans discuss how to engage best with patients about clinical trials and clinical care. Tom emphasizes that patients are simply not aware of clinical trials that are available and that these trials present " another treatment option ". Clinical trials that offer randomization to the standard of care or the standard of care plus the additional treatment option being eval...
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