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Adriana Morieko

MBA, Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator, Stanford Cancer Institute, Cancer Clinical Trials Office

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Stanford Cancer Institute Reaches Out to Hispanics/Latinos

04/08/2015 08:49PM | 8572 views

According to the National Cancer Institute, Hispanics and Latinos continue to experience cancer health disparities for certain types of cancer, usually due to obstacles that make access to quality health care a challenge. 

To help meet this need, the Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) Cancer Clinical Trials Office (CCTO) outreach staff is working with our community to:

1)    make us more aware that cancer clinical trials (also known as clinical studies) are options for screening, preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer, and

2)    give us and our families the necessary support to understand, enroll in, and participate in cancer clinical trials.

To further this endeavor, the CCTO outreach team is available to provide materials and/or an information table, or collaborate with you to bring more awareness to cancer clinical trials through your community events and programs.

Leading Stanford’s outreach commitment to bring more awareness and support to Hispanic/Latino cancer clinical trials participation is Adriana Morieko, the new SCI Cancer Clinical Trials Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator. “Because many in our community need the economic and social support to participate in clinical trials, I am working with Stanford leadership, outreach staff, and community organizations to create an infrastructure that supports Hispanic/Latino and other minority group participation in cancer clinical trials and research at Stanford,” said Morieko.

Morieko collaborates with the CCTO outreach team through numerous efforts, including Clinical Trials Awareness Week, other educational strategies, and community events and alliances. Making up the outreach team are:

Miriam Bischoff, MS, MBA, Executive Administrative Director, Clinical Research, Stanford Cancer Institute, who oversees the direction of all CCTO outreach programs and SCI’s clinical trials program.

• Adriana Morieko, MBA, Cancer Clinical Trials Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator, who manages the recruitment of study participants from a variety of ethnicities, with a concentration on Spanish-speaking patients, and works with community organizations focused on Latino/Hispanic cancer/healthcare issues to increase awareness of SCI trials. Adriana collaborates with Stanford Social Workers, Patient Support Services, Interpreter Services, and others to ensure that non-English speaking clinical trial participants receive the support services they need to enable study participation and compliance.

• Rachel Mesia, MPH,Program Manager, Community Partnerships, who provides capacity-building assistance and partners with organizations to reduce the burden of cancer and health inequities, particularly among San Francisco Bay Area communities. She is involved with collaborative efforts pertaining to cancer control, clinical trials, cancer education and support, community engaged research, and coalition development.

• Ellen DiNucci, MA, Cancer Clinical Trials Outreach Specialist, who runs a service providing cancer clinical trials information and related resources to patients, referring physicians, and community groups. In addition, she develops and implements numerous clinical trials educational outreach strategies by writing content for and producing publications, designing promotional campaigns, participating in community events, and lending her narration skills to multimedia projects.

• Sarah Pelta, MA,Communications Manager, who oversees the production of numerous outreach communication programs that involve the CCTO clinical trials web site, publications, and multimedia educational projects, all of which are integral to the promotion of cancer clinical trials education and participation.

If you would like to collaborate with the CCTO, have it provide materials or an information table at one of your upcoming events, or receive information about Stanford cancer clinical trials or Clinical Trials Awareness Week, please contact Adriana Morieko, 650-724-3155, aadriana@stanford.edu 

or visit http://cancer.stanford.edu/trials/patients 

or http://cancer.stanford.edu/trials/ctaw_spanish.html

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