BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.6//EN TZID:America/Phoenix X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Phoenix BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1509@azbio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200918T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200918T100000 DTSTAMP:20200820T115402Z URL:https://www.azbio.org/events/overcoming-critical-barriers-the-importan ce-of-inclusion-and-diversity-in-clinical-trials SUMMARY:Overcoming Critical Barriers: The Importance of Inclusion and Diver sity in Clinical Trials - - 18 Sep 20 09:00 DESCRIPTION:\nOvercoming Critical Barriers\n\n\nThe Importance of Inclusion and Diversity in Clinical Trials\n\nJoin the conversation on how we can f oster greater diversity in our industry\, inclusion in our operations\, an d understanding across our community.\n\nDate: Friday\, September 18\,2020 \n\nTime: \; 9:00 - !0:00 AM Z/MST/PDT\n\nThis is a free virtual event that is available to signup for via your AZBW app after registration.\n\n Presented Virtually Via Zoom\n\nRegister for this and other free Arizona B ioscience Week Educational Events via the AZBW 2020 App\nRegister for AZBW 2020\nSPEAKERS:\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco A. Moreno\, MD\, Associate \;Vice President for Equity\, \;Diversity and Inclusion\, \;University of Arizona Health Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco A. Moreno\, MD\, is as sociate vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of Ar izona Health Sciences (UAHS)\, where he is responsible for creating a comp rehensive network of meaningful diversity-and-inclusion initiatives\, prog rams and strategies to improve the diversity of the health-care workforce statewide. \; Dr. Moreno works to infuse diversity into the instructio n and content of new and existing courses and coordinate and develop diver sity training\, in collaboration with health sciences colleges and centers and other university departments. In addition\, he seeks to identify barr iers to recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations and supp ort strategies to overcome these barriers for students\, faculty and staff . In addition to improving diversity in the biomedical workforce pipeline across the UAHS campus and beyond\, Dr. Moreno continues to serve as profe ssor of psychiatry at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and oversee it s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Arizona Hispanic Center of Excelle nce. (More)\nJoann Sweasy\, PhD\, Director\, University of Arizona Cancer Center \, Nancy C. and Craig M. Berge Endowed Chair for the Director of th e Cancer Center\, Associate Director\, Basic Sciences\, Cancer Biology Pro gram\, Research Member\n\n\n\nDr. Sweasy earned her doctoral degree from R utgers University\, studying the role of the RecA protein in the SOS respo nse to DNA damage\, under the direction of Dr. Evelyn M. Witkin. She initi ated her research on the fidelity of DNA synthesis at the University of Wa shington in Dr. Lawrence Loeb’s laboratory. After joining Yale Universit y School of Medicine in 1993\, she rose through the ranks to become the En sign Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Associate Director for Basic S ciences at the Yale Cancer Center. Dr. Sweasy is currently a tenured profe ssor in Cellular and Molecular Medicine\, Director of \;the University of Arizona Cancer Center\, and \;Associate Director\, Basic Sciences at the University of Arizona Cancer Center. \;\n\n\nDr. Sweasy is an i nternationally recognized expert the genetics\, cell biology\, and biochem istry of DNA repair. For the past 25 years her laboratory has been consist ently funded by the National Cancer Institute to study the molecular basis of mutagenesis and dysfunctional DNA repair as they relate to human disea ses including cancer and autoimmunity. Dr. Sweasy’s research team recent ly discovered that dynamic conformational changes are important for accura te DNA synthesis. The team has also shown that human germline and somatic genetic variants of base excision repair genes are linked to carcinogenesi s because they are unable to properly remove damaged DNA bases\, leading t o genomic instability\, mitotic catastrophe\, and other cancer-associated phenotypes. (More)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Phoenix X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Phoenix BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20190919T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR