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Minority Participation

The M. D. Anderson CCOP Research Base Minority Participation Committee

The M. D. Anderson CCOP Research Base Minority Participation Committee originated in the 2006 competing renewal grant as there has been a lack of systematic attention to the area of minority participation. The scope of the committee is to explore opportunities in cultural competency and the inclusion of minority patients, not only for the research base, but for clinical research in general. Participants on the committee are from the community, from the NCI and from M. D. Anderson. The committee meets quarterly and findings are dispersed to all sites. If you are interested in participating on the committee, please contact the research base at 713-563-0276, or e-mail mdaccop@mdanderson.org.

Minority Participation Committee Webinar September 14, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. (Central Standard Time)

Our featured speaker will be Lynne Nguyen, M.P.H., co-chair of the Minority Recruitment Committee and director of the Minority and Women Clinical Trial Recruitment Program at M. D. Anderson.

As co-chair of the Minority Participation Committee, Lynne has conducted preliminary assessment of committee member's perceptions about their capacity to accrue and retain minorities to clinical trials as well as their perceptions about the barriers that prevent them from doing so.

The webinar will be an annual review of the Minority Participation Committee and future strategies.

Topics of Discussion

  • Overview of the Minority Participation Committee mission
  • Annual assessment
  • Available resources
  • Web presence

Call-In Information

Continental U.S.: 1-877-226-9790
International calls: 1-636-651-3172
Access code: 6754824#

If you have any difficulty connecting, please call the research base directly at 713-563-0276 for assistance. On the M. D. Anderson campus, we will be meeting in FC10.2031.

Webinar Instructions

Web Resources

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Reference Articles

  1. Stacy J. UyBico et al. Recruiting vulnerable populations into research: a systematic review of recruitment interventions. Society of General Internal Medicine 2007. 22:852-863.
  2. Gabriel Y. Lai et al. Effectiveness of strategies to recruit underrepresented populations into cancer clinical trials. Clinical Trials 2006. 3:133-141.
  3. Shawna V. Hudson et al. Physician perspectives on cancer clinical trials and barriers to minority recruitment. Cancer Control 2005 Nov. 12 Supplement 2: 93-96.
  4. Antronette K. Yancey et al. Effective recruitment and retention of minority research patients. Annu Rev Public Health 2006. 27:1-28.

2009 Meetings 

Minority Participation Committee Webinar June 15, 2009, at 12:00 p.m. (Central Time)

Linked below are the agenda and presentation for the next Minority Participation Committee webinar, which will be held Monday, June 15, 2009, at 12:00 p.m. (Central Time).

Our guest will be Elise Cook, M. D., from the Cancer Prevention Center at M. D. Anderson. The presentation title is "Recruiting African American men to a cancer prevention trial: Lessons from the field".

Dr. Cook is the national chair and institutional principal investigator for the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) and is chair of the national Minority and Medically Underserved Subcommittee for SELECT. She is also chair of the Prostate Cancer Committee for the Houston chapter of the American Cancer Society and serves on the Executive Board of the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer.

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