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“Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Improving the Health of NJ Communities” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show, slides only in PDF format, or slides with notes pages in PDF format) — Ms. Karin Mille, MS, RD, Public Health Nutrition Consultant for the Office of Nutrition and Fitness in the Division of Family Health Services of the NJ Department of Health — an educational presentation at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex Passaic Wellness Coalition, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, West Orange, NJ, March 14, 2013.

“Colorectal Cancer: Public Health Intervention” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format) — Mr. James Zasadzinski, 4^th-year medical student, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School — and
“How 100% Smokefree Parks and Recreational Areas Policies Benefit Your Community” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format) — Cindy Meakem, CHES, Coordinator, Center for Prevention and Counseling; Karen Blumenfeld, Esq., Executive Director, New Jersey GASP; Alan Kantz, Program Manager, New Jersey GASP —
educational presentations at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex Passaic Chronic Disease Coalition, Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, NJ, September 24, 2012.

“The Affordable Care Act & Related Health Care Financing Issues” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show, slides only in PDF format, or slides with notes pages in PDF format) — Mr. Robert Schermer, Strategic Innovation Management, LLC — an educational presentation at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex County Cancer Coalition, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, West Orange, NJ, June 28, 2012, extensively reviewing the various parts of the Affordable Care Act and their implications for health care financing and comprehensive cancer and chronic disease control activities.

“Tobacco Addiction / Preventing Oral Cancer”, educational presentations at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex County Cancer Coalition, UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School, Newark, NJ, March 29, 2012, in three parts — two parts on Tobacco Addiction (both together as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format) and one part on Preventing Oral Cancer.  The two parts on Tobacco Addiction are also available separately, as listed below along with the third part.

• “Quitting Tobacco Works” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format)
  — Dennis Lee, BA, CTTS, Tobacco Dependence Treatment Program, The Institute for Prevention of Barnabas Health;
• “Addiction to Smoking – Is There a Genetic Component?” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format)
  — Stanley H. Weiss, MD, FACP, FACE, Director and Principal Investigator (PI) of the Essex County Cancer Coalition,
  Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School,
  Professor of Quantitative Methods, UMDNJ-School of Public Health,
  Cancer Liaison Physician to the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons for the UMDNJ University Hospital/NJMS Oncology Program.
• “Prevention and Early Detection of Oral Cancer” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format)
  — Arnold H. Rosenheck, DMD, DPL-ABOMS,
  Assistant Dean for Hospital Affairs & Institutional Development, Acting Chair of the Department of Community Health, and Associate Professor of Clinical Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School,
  Member of the Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment in New Jersey.

“Learn about Cancer Clinical Trials”, an educational presentation at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex County Cancer Coalition, UMDNJ-NJMS/University Hospital Cancer Center, Newark, NJ, December 8, 2011, in four parts:

• “Understanding Clinical Trials” — Kiameesha Evans, MPH, MCHES, Program Director, Office of Community Outreach, Cancer Institute of NJ;
• “Improving Minority & Medically Under-Served Participation & Access in Clinical Trials (IMPACT)” — Lois V. Greene, BSN, RN, MBA, Assistant VP, Ambulatory Care Services, The Frederick B. Cohen, MD, Comprehensive Cancer and Blood Disorder Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center;
• “American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3)” — Beverly Brevard, BA, Director, Health Systems Initiatives, Eastern Division, American Cancer Society;
• “UMDNJ/NJMS-UH Cancer Center Minority Based Community Clinical Oncology Program” — Yasmeen S. Barber, BA, CCRP, Clinical Research Coordinator, NJMS University Hospital Cancer Center.

“Can Sex Lead to Cancer? — Sexually Transmitted Viruses & Cancer” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format), an educational presentation at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex County Cancer Coalition, Essex County College, Newark, NJ, September 22, 2011, in three parts:

• “HPV (Human Papillomavirus) & Cancer” — Decca Mohammed, MD, Board-Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology (Premier Ob/Gyn LLC, Bloomfield, NJ; attending physician at both Clara Maass Medical Center, Belleville, NJ, and Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, NJ);
• “Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) & Cancer” — Everett W. Schlam, MD, Diplomate of American Board of Family Practice (Assistant Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, NJ; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ; Professor and Chair, Division of Family Medicine and General Practice, School of Medicine, Saint George’s University);
• “HIV/AIDS & Cancer” and “Drug Abuse & Cancer” — Stanley H. Weiss, MD, FACP, FACE, Director and Principal Investigator (PI) of the Essex County Cancer Coalition (Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School; Professor of Quantitative Methods, UMDNJ-School of Public Health; Cancer Liaison Physician to the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons for the UMDNJ University Hospital/NJMS Oncology Program)

“Colorectal Cancer: An Update” (as a self-contained PowerPoint show or in PDF format) — Stanley H. Weiss, MD, FACP, FACE (Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health, New Jersey Medical School, and Department of Quantitative Methods, School of Public Health, UMDNJ), Director and Principal Investigator, Essex County Cancer Coalition; Daniel M. Rosenblum, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health, New Jersey Medical School, and Department of Quantitative Methods, School of Public Health, UMDNJ), Co-coordinator, Essex County Cancer Coalition — an educational presentation at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex County Cancer Coalition, Cedar Grove, NJ, May 19, 2011, discussing (1) colonoscopy as the primary screening method for colorectal cancer, (2) presenting the basics of colorectal cancer screening to a lay audience, and (3) recent findings on colonic lesions in diverse populations.  A full multimedia recording of this presentation has been archived in three parts and is available to the public in the New Jersey Public Health Training Center’s Training Archives.  Just the slides from the three parts of this presentation are also available separately in either self-contained PowerPoint or PDF format:

“Investigating Cancer Clusters: New Guidelines and Innovative Approaches” (pdf), Daniel Wartenberg, PhD, Professor and Director of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.  Educational presentation at the regular quarterly meeting of the Essex County Cancer Coalition, Newark, NJ, March 10, 2011, examining what cancer clusters are, how they are studied, why they should be studied, and what new methods are being used to better understand them.

“The Food Environment & Cancer-Promoting Diets: Nutritional Risk between & within Urban Neighborhoods” (pdf), Sean C. Lucan, MD, MPH, MS (Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University), alumnus of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar program at University of Pennsylvania.  Educational presentation given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, West Orange, NJ, December 9, 2010, (1)  reviewing evidence on dietary risk factors for cancer, (2) exploring ecological relations between community residents’ perceptions of availability of various foods and neighborhood dietary patterns, and (3) examining how availability of various snack foods in neighborhoods relates to children’s diets in those neighborhoods.

“Prostate Cancer Prevention Strategies” (pdf), Stanley H. Weiss, MD (Professor, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School & UMDNJ School of Public Health), Director & Principal Investigator, Essex County Cancer Coalition.  Educational presentation examining both diet and chemoprevention of prostate cancer and reviewing current evidence for and against both strategies, given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, September 23, 2010.

“PSA Testing 101” (pdf), Stanley H. Weiss, MD (Professor, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School & UMDNJ School of Public Health), Director & Principal Investigator, Essex County Cancer Coalition.  Educational presentation covering current evidence on the benefits of prostate cancer screening and considering some issues that remain to be addressed, given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, September 23, 2010.

“The Impact of Prostate Cancer in New Jersey” (pdf), Daniel M. Rosenblum, PhD (Assistant Professor, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School & UMDNJ School of Public Health), Co-Coordinator, Essex County Cancer Coalition.  Educational presentation reviewing New Jersey and national data on prostate cancer risk, prevalence, incidence, mortality, and disparities, given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, September 23, 2010.

“Skin Cancer and the NJ Choose Your Cover Program” (ppt), Amanda Medina, MA, MPH, Program Development Specialist, Office of Community Outreach, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Educational presentation on the New Jersey Choose Your Cover skin cancer screening and education program given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, South Orange, NJ, June 3, 2010.

“Non-Dangers/Proper Perspectives of Radiation Therapy Treatments” (ppt), Robert Goodman, MD, Chairman of Radiation Oncology - Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Educational presentation discussing the myths and facts about radiation therapy given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, March 25, 2010.

“Reducing Disparities in Clinical Trials” (ppt), Barbara Gladson, PT, PhD, MS in Clinical Trials Sciences, UMDNJ - School of Health Related Professions & UMDNJ's Director of Biopharm Education and Curriculum Development. Educational presentation concerning strategies for increasing minority enrollment in cancer clinical trials given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, December 10, 2009.

“Cancer Center Trials at St Barnabas” (ppt), Maritza Quinones, Registry Coordinator, Saint Barnabas Healthcare System – Cancer Center. Educational presentation concerning the cacner clinical trials being conducted at St Barnabas Cancer Center given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, December 10, 2009.

“Minority- Based Community Clinical Oncology Program” (ppt), Tracie Saunders, MS, RN, Director, UMDNJ, NJMS/UH Cancer Center Clinical Research Office. Educational presentation given to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, December 10, 2009.

The Prostate Cancer Continuum, The Changing Face of Disparity: Taking Health into Our Own Hands, Virgil Simons, Founder & President, CEO & CFO, The Prostate Net. Educational presentation to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Livingston, NJ, September 10, 2009.

OralCDx Brush Biopsy – Technique and Indications, Mark Rutenberg, CEO & Founder, CDx Laboratories.  Educational presentation to the Essex County Cancer Coalition at its regular quarterly meeting, Newark, NJ, March 6, 2008.

“In the Pink, In the Know, In the Black — The evolution of a community health program” presented by Lois Greene, RNC, MBA (St. Michael’s Medical Center), et al. in Workshop Session B-7 at the 2007 Minority Women’s Health Summit, convened by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health, Washington, D.C., August 23-26, 2007.

Oral cancer, prevention and early detection (MP3, 00:29:57, 13.72MB) presented by Dr. Arnold Rosenheck, Assistant Dean for Hospital Affairs & Institutional Development at New Jersey Dental School on HealthLink Radio, The University Hospital’s regular 8:30 AM Sunday morning show on WFDU (89.1 FM), July 8, 2007.

"Identification of cancer priorities in Essex County" (PDF, 236.7KB) presented at the 2005 Annual Retreat on Cancer Research in New Jersey, April 27, 2005

"Evaluation of Cancer Educational Materials" (PDF, 206KB) presented at the 2005 NJMS Student Summer Research Day

"An Evaluation of Cancer Educational Materials with a Focus on those Currently Distributed by Health Departments in New Jersey" (Powerpoint, 340KB) presented by Stanley H. Weiss, MD at the September 8, 2005 Essex County Cancer Coalition Meeting.

A Role for Health Care Professionals in the Fight Against Oral Cancer (PDF, 1.7MB) presented by Arnold Rosenheck, DMD at the September 8, 2005 Essex County Cancer Coalition Meeting

"Local Implementation of Cancer Control Efforts in Essex County" (Powerpoint, 646KB) presented to the Livingston League of Women Voters, February 16, 2006

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