Advancing Team-Based Care Delivery Models & Interventions Across the Cancer Continuum
Goals of this session
- Understand teaming and coordination challenges in cancer screening and risk assessment in primary care
- Discuss approaches used to facilitate teaming and coordination for all American populations
- Discuss coordination between multidisciplinary teams to strengthen whole person care and smoother care transitions
- Discuss the use of the electronic health record to enhance patient-provider decision support in team-based care models
For more information about this webinar series, visit the Healthcare Teams page.
Intended Audience
Health services researchers, cancer care clinicians, and patients are invited to join the webinar series.
Panelists

Katherine D. Crew, MD
Avon Products Foundation Professor, Breast Cancer Research
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
Director, Clinical Breast Cancer Prevention Program
Herbert Irving Compressive Cancer Center
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Mitchell T. Heflin, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing
Associate Dean and Director
Center for Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC)

Urmimala Sarkar, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
& Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Associate Director
Action Research Center (ARC)

Ma Somsouk, MD, MAS
Dean M. Craig Endowed Chair in Gastrointestinal Medicine
Professor in Residence
Division of Gastroenterology
University of California, San Francisco
& Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Background Reading
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- Catherine Eng MD
, James Pedulla MD
, G. Paul Eleazer MD
, Robert McCann MD
, Norris Fox MD
. Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): An Innovative Model of Integrated Geriatric Care and Financing
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- Kukafka R, Pan S, Silverman T, et al. Patient and Clinician Decision Support to Increase Genetic Counseling for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jul 1;5(7):e2222092. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.22092.