University of Illinois Cancer Center member Keith Naylor, MD, who is part of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program, presented a poster of his Illinois Cancer Health Equity Research (I-CHER) Center subaward project titled, “Unknown Family History of Cancer … What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You,” at the American Cancer Society (ACS)-Jiler Professors and Fellows Conference.
A practicing gastroenterologist at UI Health, Naylor is one of the six subawardees of the I-CHER grant. Specifically, he is Principal Investigator on an ACS Clinician Scientist Development Grant seeking to improve cancer risk assessment and colorectal cancer screening among underserved populations through enhanced family history documentation. The I-CHER Center, which sits within the Cancer Center is made possible through funding from ACS and support from the Cancer Center. He is also Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago.
Other authors on the poster are Cancer Center Research Specialist Monet Jones, MPH, MSW; University of Illinois Diversity in Cancer Research (UI DICR) summer research undergraduate student Irann Martinez; College of Medicine Gastroenterology Fellow Daniel Ludi, MD; and Cancer Center member Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAFP, Professor and Head of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the College of Medicine and a Family Medicine physician at UI Health.
The conference took place in early November in Tucson, Arizona. Cancer research scientists and clinicians were in attendance, including ACS professors, postdoctoral fellows and clinician scientist development grantees to support the conference theme, “Fostering Innovation in Cancer Research.”