Where We've Been
Open to Options staff appeared on the show "Speaking Frankly about Cancer with the Cancer Support Community" for their April 2010 Broadcast.
"Enhancing Access to Cancer Clinical Trials" article featured in Community View section.
Margo is quoted in the issue's cover story "The Treatment Option you May be Missing," which examines why cancer patients aren't enrolling in clinical trials.
Margo Michaels presents on patient advocacy relating to clinical trials in Tokyo, Japan this May.
Three new level II courses for primary care providers, clinical trial staff and community leaders and patient advocates.
Margo discusses common myths and misconceptions surrounding cancer clinical trials with the LAF staff.
Margo Michaels serves as co-chair for a break out session on "The Science of Community Outreach, Education and Participation."
Each of the partners share their strategies and lessons learned over the past year while implementing the Communities as Partners recommendations in their communities.
Margo Michaels, ENACCT Executive Director, and Natasha Blakeney, ENACCT program director, present results...
Margo Michaels, ENACCT Executive Director, leads a discussion on health disparities, access to quality cancer care and social justice.
Margo Michaels, ENACCT Executive Director, delivers the closing session of the conference...
Margo Michaels, ENACCT executive director, speaks at CancerCare's Telephone Workshop entitled "Clinical Trials: Improving Treatment Options and Care for People Living with Cancer."
Co Principal Investigators Margo Michaels and Sarena Seifer, Community-Campus Partnership for Health (CCPH), along with Project Coordinator, Stacy Collins, present a poster on the Communities as Partners in Cancer Clinical Trials Project at the NIH conference, “Improving Health WITH Communities: The Role of Community Engagement in Clinical and Translational Research, ” May 14-15, 2009, in Rockville, MD.
ENACCT takes part in two presentations at the 25th Annual AOSW conference.
“Enhancing Community Involvement in the IRB Review Process” and was presented by Stacy Collins, Sarena Seifer, and Eric Wat.
Recognized as "Best Program Poster" at the conference.
ENACCT partners with Carolina Community Network.
ENACCT presents poster at AACR conference in Arizona.
Open to Options is profiled by the CDC quarterly newsletter.
A chronology of ENACCT's organizational highlights are outlined here.
Report Urges Greater Community Role in Cancer Clinical Trials.
Executive Director Margo Michaels speaks at EDICTs Town Hall Meeting On Inequities in Clinical Trials Harlem Hospital Center.
ENACCT-Roxbury site presents at APHA conference in San Diego, CA.
ENACCT Executive Director Margo Michaels presented on “Enhancing recruitment and retention of diverse populations in cancer clinical trials: A cultural competency training program for Oncologist/Researchers"
ENACCT is featured in the Cancer Journal.
ENACCT and Lance Armstrong meet
ENACCT's PEP 2008 Annual Retreat Recap
ENACCT's explores the use of community based participatory research methodology for clinical trials recruitment.
ENACCT Trains Hawaiian Community Outreach Specialists and Patient Navigators
Dr. Wendi El-Amin, Director, UVa Cancer Center Health Disparities Initiative, interviewed Margo Michaels about cancer clinical trials and access for African Americans.
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention Awards $1.7 Million to ENACCT and The Wellness Community to launch new educational efforts on cancer clinical trials.