Tomi Akinyemiju

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured in the media, trades, journals, at Duke and the DCI blog.

Association was evident for patients of different ethnicities, those with government and private insurance, and those treated at different types of health care facilities.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

DCI surgeon scientist Tammara Lynn Watts, MD, PhD, role is strategic oversight of EDI across DCI’s clinical and academic workforce.

Race, and how people are treated differently because of it, leads to major differences in health outcomes for cancer. Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, has built her career examining these disparities so we can learn how to fix them. 

Here are some of the Duke Cancer Institute faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

The Eighth Annual DCI Scientific Retreat was one for the books.

Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, meticulously studies what drives cancer outcomes in populations in the United States and across the globe. 

Community outreach & engagement teams from DCI, Wake Forest and UNC cancer centers have launched an initiative focused on the cancer-related health needs of American Indian communities.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers and nurses whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

The 8^th Annual DCI Scientific Retreat will be held via Zoom on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Keynote: UCSF's Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS.

Study led by Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, finds racial disparities in lung cancer outcomes erased by equal access to top treatments.

"What's Best For Breasts? A Conversation with Duke Clinicians" was held online on Oct. 2. Topics included imaging, genetic testing, breast cancer risk assessment & prevention.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers and nurses whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers and nurses whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

Cancer deaths were lower in those five states and District of Columbia that expanded Medicaid early-on as part of the Affordable Care Act.

In the age of Covid, Community Outreach & Engagement at DCI comes of age, team expands with disparities researcher/associate director

DCI investigators are invited to attend the Inaugural Metastatic Breast Cancer Collaborative Research Virtual Summit.