Women in Health Management

One in two men and one in three women will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime. According to the National Cancer Institute, it is estimated that 182,460 women will be diagnosed with and 40,480 women will die of breast cancer in 2008. Our honorees are two leading oncologists, specializing in prevention and detection of cancer. Join us to learn how health care disparities impact outcomes for women and minorities, and how new innovations are making a difference in patients’ lives.

JENNY ROMERO, MD
Jenny Romero is a medical oncologist at the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York City. This facility pioneered the Patient Navigation model for cancer care which is now being adapted by other institutions. Dr. Romero is also a Clinical Affiliate in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and she is an attending physician at St. Luke’s Roosevelt and North General Hospital.

Dr. Romero was a member of the Northeast Regional Executive Committee of the Surgeon General’s National Hispanic/Latino Health Initiative, a program designed to identify and prioritize critical health issues facing Latinos in America and to develop and implement strategies to address these issues. She is particularly interested in research that focuses on identifying the factors that contribute to the poor prognoses among African-American and Hispanic patients diagnosed with cancer.

Dr. Romero completed a fellowship in oncology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She also completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

JULIA A. SMITH, MD, PHD
Julia Smith is a medical oncologist and scientist whose particular interest is in risk assessment for breast cancer with the goal of increasing surveillance, early detection, and prevention. She is the Director of the NYU Cancer Institute, Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention Program and the Lynne Cohen Breast Cancer Preventive Care Program at NYU. The Lynne Cohen High Risk Women’s Clinic at Bellevue Hospital opened in 2001, and was the first program of its kind to offer outreach, education, screening and prevention for breast cancer to undeserved and uninsured women. She then developed the program at the NYU Cancer Institute. She has received numerous awards, sits on medical advisory boards for clinical and scientific research, and lectures and speaks around the country.

Dr. Smith graduated from the New York University School of Medicine’s joint MD/PhD program in 1980, with a doctorate in cell biology. She then did her internal medicine training at Harvard Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in hematology-oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. During that time, she completed a post-doctorate fellowship in molecular biology and retroviral genetics at Rockefeller University.

WHMNY - 2008 Leadership Event Registration

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