On March 1, 2024, ACCC elected a new president and board of trustees for the 2024 -2025 term. CANCER BUZZ interviews outgoing President, Lekan Ajayi, and incoming President, Nadine Barrett, about their respective ACCC President’s Themes, the programs and resources ACCC developed in the past year, the state of the oncology workforce, ACCC’s role in improving health equity, the Association’s 50th Anniversary, and more.
Guest:
Lekan Ajayi
Immediate Past President, Association of Cancer Care Centers
Chief Operating Officer
Highlands Oncology Group, Fayetteville, Arkansas
“[Last year] ACCC set out to rebuild and upskill the workforce to deliver the next generation oncology care...it’s been enlightening, and there's been so much learning that’s been made available…I think through the power of sharing, we can all be better together.”
“The oncology workforce. currently is at a point of inflection really. I think what we know now is that we need to invest to be better…what we've been able to do is create a popular awareness amongst leaders in the industry of the need to invest in the workforce and also to give them tools to be able to do exactly that.”
Nadine Barrett
President, Association of Cancer Care Centers
Professor of Social Science and Health Policy
Senior Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Equity Research
Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement
Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest School of Medicine
“Health equity is part of the core of ACCC, to want to advance equity, to want to think about what health equity and cancer looks like…ACCC is very much committed to recognizing that it takes a national and global community to create the change.”
Resources:
Reimagining Community Engagement and Health Equity in Cancer
Re(Building) the Oncology Workforce to Deliver Next Generation Care
The Importance of Developing Health Equity Initiatives
Social Drivers of Health: The Role or Representation in the Health Care Workforce
A Look at the Emerging Role of Health Equity Institutes
Population Health Navigators: An Innovative Approach for Supporting Underserved Patients
Successful Integration of Oral Oncolytics
Patient Adherence to Oral Targeted Therapies
CAR T-cell Therapy: Remote Patient Monitoring
Addressing Challenges in Managing Patients Receiving Oral Therapies for HR+, HER2- Breast Cancer
Interventional Screening Tools for Malnutrition
Sexual Health: All of Me
Malnutrition: Screen or Assess?
Anti-Cancer Therapy Privileging for APPs
Expediting Cancer Treatment Through a Rapid Access APP-Led Diagnostic Clinic
Deploying Technology Across an Interdisciplinary Team to Improve Oral Oncolytic Compliance
Chemotherapy Care Companion: A Remote Patient Monitoring Program
Malnutrition in Cancer Care
A Model for Embedding Primary Care in Oncology
Oral Cancer Therapy: Adverse Events
Addressing Social Determinants of Health through a Medical-Legal Partnership
Digital Literacy in Older Adults with Cancer
Cannabis and Cancer: Developing a Patient Clinic
Advocating for Financial Health
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: How Advocacy Led to Action
Increasing Clinical Trial Access for Blood Cancers
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