Timothy Cannon: Was excited to participate in the Cancer Moonshot Colorectal Cancer Roundtable

Aparna Parikh shared a post by Timothy Cannon’s, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia, on LinkedIn, adding:

“An honor to participate in an incredibly lively and passionate conversation with this group. All deeply committed to colorectal cancer but also how to improve care and access to clinical trials for all patients. Hope to see some meaningful policies emerge that will address much of what we discussed.”

Quoting Timothy Cannon’s post:

“Was excited to participate in the Cancer Moonshot Colorectal Cancer Roundtable.”

Source: Timothy Cannon/LinkedIn and Aparna Parikh/LinkedIn

Aparna Parikh is a GI oncologist, the Director of the Global Cancer Care Program at Mass General and assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School. She has a long-standing background and interest in global health, having spent time in several African countries, Haiti and India. Most recently, at MGH, she co-founded and co-leads a program called POETIC (Program for Enhanced Training in Cancer (POETIC)) This fellowship exchange program, conducted in collaboration with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Cancer Center and Lowell Schnipper, MD, trains clinical oncology fellows from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and Ocean Road Cancer Center in Tanzania. Dr. Parikh also sits on the executive board of BOTSOGO, a collaboration between MGH and the Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Botswana’s cancer caregivers and the Botswana government. The group’s ultimate goal is to improve access to quality cancer care in Botswana by educating the Botswana population, training future generations of cancer caregivers and conducting vital clinical research. She is a member of the OncoDaily Editorial Board.