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Dec 1, 2024, 16:59

Tatiana Prowell: Brief user guide to HCW vs Hunger

Tatiana Prowell, Associate Professor of Oncology in the Division of Women’s Malignancies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, shared a post on X:

“Brief user guide to HCW vs Hunger:

Who: Healthcare workers and anyone who wants to fight hunger with us
What: friendly annual competition between MedTwitter teams to see who can raise the most for food banks/hunger orgs
When: 11/28-12/3
Where: HCWvsHunger.org
Why: 47M people in the US alone and about 1 in 10 worldwide have Food Insecurity. Healthcare workers are helpers and doers.

Check out our origin story, history, FAQs, current teams & leaderboard, & merch store at HCWvsHunger.org.

How: It’s easy!

– Donate to any org fighting hunger (find a local food bank)
– Screenshot receipt
– Log donation for a MedTwitter team at HCWvsHunger.org
– Tell your fam/friends about HCW vs Hunger on social media (and off)!

Finally, the OncTwitter multidisciplinary team (radiology, PathTwitter, RadOnc, and Med Onc) for 2024 HCW vs Hunger is called Diagnose And Treats (Get it? Treats). We hope you’ll log your donation for our team.”

Fumiko Ladd Chino, Attending in Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared this post on X, adding:

“Join us for the next 5 days in our quest to raise money for food banks and other orgs fighting food insecurity. We are a team of healthcare workers who are sick of complaining and want to DO something that puts good back into the world.”

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Tatiana M. 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.

Fumiko Ladd Chino is an attending in Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, who specializes in gynecological and breast cancers. She was also a caregiver for her husband Andrew Mark Ladd, PhD who died from cancer in 2007.

She is a recipient of numerous awards, including ASCO Excellence in Equity Award (2022), Duke Radiation Oncology Award for Outstanding Clinical Research (2019), Duke University Hospital “Good Catch” Award (2018), Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Award (2018), Duke University School of Medicine Dean’s Recognition Award (2014) and Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas Medical Center Volunteer of the Year Award (2009)