Texas Skin Cancer/Melanoma Screening and Prevention Summit

The Texas Skin Cancer/Melanoma Screening and Prevention Summit, hosted by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was held in Houston on October 29th and 30th.

Summit Purpose

Participants included essential partners in prevention: federal, state, tribal, local, and territorial governments; members of the business, health care, and education sectors; community and nonprofit organizations. Through this summit particpants worked to:

• Identify the barriers and solutions to implementing the goals of The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer as determined by the educational, parks and recreational, and health care (pediatricians, family practice, dermatologists) sectors.
• Identify melanoma and skin cancer prevention and early detection research opportunities in Texas
• Address gaps in evidence-based research related to melanoma and skin cancer screening
• Develop an energized, evidence-informed collaborative network to develop a Texas-based skin cancer screening research initiative

Texas Skin Cancer/Melanoma Screening and Prevention Summit Presentations (PDF)

• Day 1:
  • Lessons Learned Panel: Skin Cancer Screenings
    
    • Oregon
      Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.
      Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology; Director, Melanoma Research Program
      Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
      
      
    • German Experience
      Alexander Katalinic, M.D.
      Professor
      University of Luebeck, Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology
      
      
    • UPMC& Potential Harms of Screening
      Laura K. Ferris, M.D., Ph.D.
      Associate Professor of Dermatology
      UPMC/University of Pittsburgh
      
      
  • Keynote: Utilizing Innovative Technology in Screening
    Michael A. Marchetti, M.D.
    Assistant Attending
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    
    
  • Panel Discussion #1: Clinicians' Role in Reducing the Risk of Skin Cancer; Barriers and Solutions to Implementing the United States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
    
    • Dermatologists
      Kelly Nelson, M.D., F.A.A.D.
      Clinical Specialist, Dermatology
      The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      
      
    • Dermatologists
      Raegan D. Hunt, M.D., Ph.D.
      Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics
      Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children's Hospital
      
      

• Day 2:
  • Designing a Screening Study in Texas to Address the Need for an Evidence Base
    
    • Communications
      David Buller, Ph.D.
      Research Director
      Klein Buendel, Inc.
      
      
    • Technology
      Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.
      Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology; Director, Melanoma Research Program
      Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
      
      

  
  
  

  Summit Planning Committee:

  
  
  • Sophie Balk, MD
    Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics; Council Co-Chair
    Montefiore Medical Center, University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine; National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention
  • Lewis E. Foxhall, MD
    Professor, Clinical Cancer Prevention; Vice President, Health Policy
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Alan Geller, M.P.H., R.N.
    Senior Lecturer; Director, Melanoma Epidemiology
    Harvard School of Public Health; Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D.
    Professor, Surgical Oncology
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Ernest T. Hawk, MD, MPH
    Vice President, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.
    Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology; Director, Melanoma Research Program
    Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Susan Peterson, Ph.D.
    Professor, Behavioral Science
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Mary Tripp, Ph.D.
    Instructor, Behavioral Science
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Meg Watson, M.P.H.
    Epidemiologist, Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control