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Estela Rodriguez: 100% health equity should be the standard not an exception

Estela Rodriguez/ doctors.umiamihealth.org

Oct 1, 2024, 11:32

Estela Rodriguez: 100% health equity should be the standard not an exception

Estela Rodriguez shared a post by Tatiana Prowell, on X, adding:

”100% health equity should be the standard not an exception.”

Quoting Tatiana Prowell’s post:

”So many schools and employers resist accommodations for disability as if they’re some kind of unearned bonus. This has got to change. We have to do a better job of advocating for our patients. Equity has to be the standard.”

Tatiana Prowell

Source: Estela Rodriguez/X and Tatiana Prowell/X

Estela (Estelamari) Rodriguez is Associate Director of Community Outreach and Co-Lead of Thoracic Site Disease Group of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is board certified in medical oncology and hematology. She has a special interest in the early detection of lung cancer and increasing access to clinical trials.

Tatiana Prowell is an Associate Professor of Oncology in the Division of Women’s Malignancies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Scientific Liaison to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She was the principal architect of FDA’s policy on accelerated approval using pathological complete response as a novel regulatory endpoint in the neoadjuvant high-risk breast cancer setting, and a member of the Biden Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Cancer Immunology Working Group. A frequent public speaker, she is a three-time recipient of FDA’s Excellence in Communication Award. She is a past Giants of Cancer Care Award finalist, the recipient of the 2019 John and Samuel Bard Medal in Science or Medicine, and the recipient of a 2020 Webby Special Achievement Award for her effective use of social media during the pandemic. A passionate medical educator and mentor, she was Chair of the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting Education Committee.