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Save the date for the 2024 UAB Health Equity Research Symposium: Achieving Health Equity Through Community Engaged Research. The annual symposium highlights the work of undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral and faculty investigators in clinical, behavioral, social, and community-based research related to health equity and health disparities.

The event will take place on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at the Hilton Birmingham Downtown at UAB (808 20th St S, Birmingham, AL 35205), from 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM CST. The keynote address will be given by Otis W. Brawley, M.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM CST.

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Interested in presenting your research? Those who wish to share new research on health equity and health disparities are encouraged to submit an abstract after registering. Abstract submissions due: February 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST.

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About the 2024 Keynote Speaker

Giles HeadshotOtis W. Brawley, M.D

Otis W. Brawley, M.D., 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 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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