Cancer Disparities

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases Guest Editors:

Samuel L. Washington III is a urologic oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Urology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco. His primary research focuses on racial disparities in patients with genitourinary malignancies, with specific interests in understanding geographic drivers of racial/ethnic disparities in diagnosis, management, and treatment of genitourinary cancers to develop interventions to improve survival outcomes for patients with GU cancers.  

Jun Luo, Ph.D., the Alan W. Partin Professor of Urology, has studied the problem of prostate cancer for two decades. His research lab housed in the Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine focuses on the use of genetic and genomic approaches for biomarker discovery, translation, and clinical implementation. Dr. Luo’s research work is funded by NIH, DOD, and private foundations. He has a particular interest in addressing the disproportionate burden of prostate cancer in Black men using noninvasive early detection methods. Dr. Luo serves on many national committees including the National Cancer Institute Prostate Cancer Task Force and American Urological Association research Council, as well as editorial boards for three urology and prostate-focused scientific journals. Dr. Luo has published over 100 articles on prostate cancer.

Yaw Nyame received his MD from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed his residency in urology at Cleveland Clinic and a fellowship in urologic oncology at the University of Washington. Dr. Nyame also has an MBA from Northwestern University and an MHSA from George Washington University. Dr. Nyame has a research interest in health disparities in urologic cancers, with a focus on using patient-centered approaches to build translational health services, molecular and clinical solutions to health inequities in prostate cancer and other urologic malignancies.

Randy Vince Jr. is a urologic oncologist at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He received his MD from Louisiana State University in Shreveport, LA, followed by a urology residency at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Vince completed a fellowship in urologic oncology at the University of Michigan, where he also obtained a M.S. in computational medicine and bioinformatics. His research interest focuses on community engagement to address disparities in urologic cancer and evaluating the association between environmental exposures and tumor aggressiveness. 

Supportive Care in Cancer Guest Editors: Dr Devon Check and Prof Janet de Groot

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