Just came across the #JCOJournals ASCO #️⃣ and discovered I made the list of top reviewers in 2022

Feeling incredibly grateful for this recognition and the opportunity to contribute!

Thank you Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD for sharing 🤩

#BREAKING : Akebono, a giant in the sumo world and a 'proud Hawaiian,' dies at 54: buff.ly/49rNrV3 #HINews #HNN

So special celebrating graduating as part of the inaugural Distinction Track for the Applied Medical & Health Humanities Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine with my friend Maia Young. Thank you to the Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine & Mayo Clinic Med Ed teams for supporting & inspiring us as future doctor-artists!👩🏾‍⚕️✍🏼👩🏻‍⚕️🎨

Honored to be the recipient of this year's 2024 Social Mission Alliance (formerly Beyond Flexner) Fitzhugh Mullan Rising Star Award. I am only here because of my family, friends, and mentors. They saw potential in me when I did not always see it in myself. With love.

Tons of people came by my poster at #AACR24 with some great questions and feedback!!! Super fun and exciting to see all the awesome research!! Biba!!

Mahalo Penn Arts & Sciences #ASAM for inviting me to @Penn to discuss #NHPI health at the 2024 ASAM Research Fellowship Symposium! Enjoyed my time on the public health panel: Towards Healing: Uplifting Communities Through Public Health

So impressed by the fellows, faculty, and ASAM program!

On the behalf of our MD Anderson Cancer Center team, so proud to have the opportunity to share our work AACR #AACR2024 Wen Jiang MD, PhD Betty Y.S. Kim, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAIMBE Yifan Wang, PhD Annette Wu

#FinancialToxicity kills.

💸ACSNews study shows #Medicaldebt is associated with worse health, premature death, & higher mortality at the county level in the US.

🏥Policies to increase access to affordable health care may improve population health.

📍jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

#AACR24 forgot Guam, a US Territory in the map!!!!!

Incredibly proud of our Melanoma and Cell Therapy teams at Stanford Cancer Institute. We performed the first commercial lifileucel (AMTAGVI) infusion this afternoon. We are so excited to bring this treatment for advanced melanoma to our patients! #CellTherapy #TIL (posted with consent)

#ASCOQLTY24 Abstract Submission is NOW OPEN!

⏱️Abstracts due: 5/21/2024

🗺️ASCO Quality Care Symposium 2024 is in San Francisco, CA! 📅Mark your calendars for 9/27-28/2024 for the best in oncology-related health services, QI, & implementation science.

conferences.asco.org/quality/attend

In a race against time, pediatric transplant surgeon Dr. Carlos Esquivel transformed Ocean's life. In urgent need of a liver and facing a critical shortage of pediatric donors, an offer from an adult donor was his only chance for survival. bit.ly/3VBO8I2
#DonateLifeMonth

Every time I come to support the Lahaina Strong camp there are more displaced individuals here with nowhere to go, while the hotel bars are packed with visitors

Every night families decide they’ll move away forever. Born & raised Maui Kānaka forced off their homeland

Replaced

I poured my ❤️ & soul into a #ASCO24 abstract and didn’t get accepted for presentation.

I was devastated. When a friend asked if I could talk to family about it, I said “It’s hard to explain growing up ‘poor’ and having this be my problem.” It’s not a ‘real’ problem.

MASSIVE news in health disparities research. OMB updated federal standards to 1️⃣ race/ethnicity category adding 1) MENA & 2) Hispanic or Latino.

Big changes ahead in analyzing health data. NHPI have struggled for decades to be recognized, looking forward to seeing the rollout.

Our article on patterns of cancer diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic out in JNCI

Disruptions greater for early than late stage diagnosis (17% vs 12.5%)

Change greatest for screen-detected cancers (and melanoma)

academic.oup.com/jncics/advance…

Lāhainā Strong has put out the kāhea for a Rally for Dignified Housing at Kāʻanapali beach next Saturday 🐚

If you were waiting for the call to come stand & support, this is the moment.

We must continue to apply pressure to ensure short term rental convert to long term.

🤩We are overjoyed to have Aadel Chaudhuri, MD PhD join our team! He is one of #radonc 's biggest movers & shakers, and we can't wait to learn from his 👨🏽‍🔬expertise and 🧠innovative mindset! Welcome to the Mayo Clinic family, Dr. Chaudhuri!

🗳️Please consider voting for our co-resident Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD for his nomination for the Healio #NextGen Disruptor Award announced at #ASCO24 . Public link can be shared. Congratulations to all nominees!

✅ Vote bit.ly/3KR5on8

Amazing 🤩🤩🤩 nominees HemOnc Today NextGen Disruptor. Can’t go wrong, unless you don’t vote!🗳️

Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD making waves #NativeHawaiian #CancerDisparities

Dr. Nina Niu Sanford advancing #GI #RadOnc

Nazli Dizman #GUOnc

Shraddha Dalwadi, MD, MBA #RadOnc

Ana I. Velázquez Mañana, MD MSc (she/her/ella) #LungCancer #Disparities