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JOINING FORCES TO UNDERSTAND THE CAUSES OF BREAST CANCER CONFERENCE

South San Francisco Convention Center February 29, 2016

Conference Goals

• Break down barriers between disparate groups and

expertise to generate truly multidisciplinary research

• Inform public of accomplishments of CBCRP-funded

research

Target Audience

• Investigators from a wide spectrum of disciplines who are

doing breast cancer research

• Advocates interested in breast cancer research
• Major donors who are interested in supporting breast

cancer research

Conference Features to Support Goals

• Increase audience interaction by holding a morning and

afternoon session of panel presentations followed by structured small group sessions focused on the topic of the panel.

• Highlight CBCRP-funded research in the form of posters,

short videos and/or session presentations

• Control costs by making the event regional and

discontinuing scholarships and CME credits

Conference Agenda

Welcome: Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, UCLA/California Breast Cancer Research Program Marion Kavanaugh-Lynch, California Breast Cancer Research Program Sharima Rasanayagam, The Breast Cancer Fund/California Breast Cancer Research Program New Model of Breast Cancer Causation: Robert Hiatt, UCSF Dissecting Breast Cancer Causation Moderator: Joan Venticinque, Breast Science Advocacy Core, UCSF Psychosocial, Contextual and Biological Contributors to Causation – Sarah Gehlert, Washington University in St. Louis Breast Cancer Disparities: Factors that Contribute to Causation – Scarlett Lin Gomez, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Environmental Health – Causal Pathways and Opportunities for Intervention– Lauren Zeise, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Facilitated Conversations

Conference Agenda

Resources for Understanding Breast Cancer Causation, Part 1: Moderator: Naz Sykes, National Breast Cancer Coalition ATHENA: A Model for Assessing Breast Cancer Risk – Laura Esserman, UCSF Studying Real-World Breast Cancer Outcomes - Allison Kurian, Stanford University Resources for Understanding Breast Cancer Causation, Part 2 Panel discussion: Conducting transdisciplinary research Moderator: Janice Barlow, Zero Breast Cancer (retired) HERMOSA: Health and Environment Research on Make of Salinas Adolescents

• Kim Harley, UC Berkeley
• Carolina Mundo, The CHAMACOS Youth Council
• Kimberly Parra, Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas

Women Firefighters Biomonitoring Collaborative

• Heather Buren, United Fire Service Women
• Rachel Morello Frosch, UC Berkeley
• Tony Stefani, San Francisco Fire Department (retired)

Facilitated Conversations Report Back and Closing Reception with Poster Viewing

Conference Financials

2007 2010 2013 2016 Expenses $560,586 $311,797 $280,813 $44,354 Income $0 $0 $14,275 $0 Total Cost $560,586 $311,797 $266,538 $44,354 Total Cost per Year $280,293 $103,932 $83,816 $44,354 Cost per Attendee $1,027 $678 $820 $286

Who Attended?

• 205 registered
• 168 Attended
• 85 Researchers
• 54 Advocates or

Community Members

• 4 Healthcare Providers
• 1 Policy Maker
• 15 Others
• 9 Staff

Researcher 53% Advocate or Community Member 34% Health Care Provider 3% Policy Maker 1% Other 9%

Conference at a glance..

• 168 attendees
• 51% Researchers
• 32% Advocate/Community Members
• Of those, 86 completed evaluation survey (51%)
• Researchers 45%
• Advocate/community member 35%
• 41% currently funded (9% current/past grantees)
• 19% interested in being funded
• Only 20% came because they were required, majority (45%) came

because of program content and goals

Overall Satisfaction with Conference Goals

• 80% and greater

satisfaction with

• State of the science
• Current collaborations
• Importance of other views
• 70% and greater

satisfaction with

• Collaboration ideas
• Develop collaborations
• New contacts
• 59% felt the information

was new

• 63% would take action on

what they learned about developing transdisciplinary research

• 72% expect to hear from
• thers they met

Likelihood of Attending Future Conference

An overwhelming majority would attend a future CBCRP conference

Follow-up Survey

A six-month follow up survey was sent to conference registrants to determine whether any collaborations and translational research projects were facilitated by the conference

• Survey was open September 13-27
• It was sent to168 registrants with active emails
• 38 Responses (23% response rate)