Neelima Navuluri, MD, MPH (center) and her mentors on her NCCN-awarded project (clockwise from bottom left)Scott Shofer, MD, PhD, Isaretta Riley, MD, Leah Zullig, PhD, MPH, and Christopher Cox, MD, MHA, MPH.
Collaboration between Bishop Ronald Godbee and DCI epidemiologist Meira Epplein, PhD, MS, MA, began in 2018 when Epplein tested 92 of Bishops congregants at Durham's The River Church for the presence of the Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). H pylori is a bacteria that puts Black, Hispanic, and Asian-American people at a higher risk for stomach cancer. Now, Bishop Godbee and Dr. Epplein are raising awareness together in a new video about the importance of testing.
LEADERS (from left to right) Meenal Kheterpal, MD, managing director, Dermatology Clinical Research Unit, Dept. of Dermatology, medical director of the Teledermatology Service, and director of the new oncodermatology clinic within the Duke Cancer Center Melanoma Clinic; Smita Nair, PhD, associate director, Basic Science, DCI Melanoma (and advanced skin cancers) Disease Group; Georgia Beasley, MD, MHS, co-director, DCI Melanoma (and advanced skin cancers) Disease Group; April Salama, MD, director, DCI Melanoma (and advanced skin cancers) Disease Group; and Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, associate director, Translational Science, DCI Melanoma (and advanced skin cancers) Disease Group.