Conversations with Our Community

Join us on Tues. Nov. 30 at 6:30 p.m. for a COEE Community Conversation on ways to keep the lungs healthy through tobacco cessation: "Helping You or Your Loved Ones Kick Tobacco, One Day at a Time."

DCI medical oncologists Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, MHSc, and Rafael Gonzalez, MD, & genetics counselor Maggie Frazier, MS, CGC discussed ovarian cancer, in this DCI OHE event for the community. 

On Sept. 14, the DCI Office of Health Equity hosted "Barbershop Talk—  Let's Have a Man to Man Discussion About Prostate Cancer."

This OHE event, taped Aug. 19, focused on leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma: risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis,  latest treatments.

DCI's Office of Health Equity hosted a virtual event on the importance of primary care in early cancer detection on July 20, 2021. Watch the recording.

The DCI Office of Health Equity hosted a clinical trials primer for the community led by Angelo Moore, PhD, RN, in partnership with the Durham Men's Health Council. (5.18)

At a community forum hosted by the DCI Office of Health Equity, surgical oncologists Michael Stang, MD, and Trinitia Cannon, MD, talk thyroid cancer & HPV-associated cancers.

The Mexican Consulate and DCI OHE collaborated on a community forum on breast and cervical cancer for Women's Month (marked in March in Mexico).

Speakers at the community event features an OHE patient navigator, Duke GI physician, & the dir. of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable – Colorectal Cancer Interventions.

The DCI Office of Health Equity and community partner Nuestras Voces convened a virtual community forum on cervical cancer with Drs. Secord and Gonzalez.