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Showing 1 - 11Two Cancer Experts to Head New Tisch Cancer Hospital at Mount Sinai Hospital
Two cancer experts have been named to lead Mount Sinai’s new Tisch Cancer Hospital, which is under development and expected to open in 2027. Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, has been appointed Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Cancer Clinical Affairs, and Ash Tewari, MBBS, MCh, has been...
ASCO Leadership for 2022–2023 Term Announced
Individuals elected to ASCO leadership for the 2022–2023 term were announced earlier in the year. Lynn M. Schuchter, MD, FASCO, was elected to serve as the Society’s President beginning in June 2023. Dr. Schuchter will take office as President-Elect immediately after the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting in ...
Lynn M. Schuchter, MD, FASCO, Elected ASCO President for 2023–2024 Term
ASCO has elected Lynn M. Schuchter, MD, FASCO, a long-time member and volunteer, to serve as its President beginning in June 2023. Dr. Schuchter will take office as President-Elect immediately after the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago in June 2022. Seven new members were also elected to the ASCO...
Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, on Redesigning Care Coordination From the Patient’s Perspective
Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses results of a pilot study suggesting dedicated lay staff members, who facilitated admissions and discharges for patients with cancer across care settings, could improve health-care utilization, quality, and the...
Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, on Telehealth Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses findings showing Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients with cancer used telehealth less often during the COVID-19 pandemic than White patients with cancer, a negative trend that will become more problematic as this ...
Study Finds Black and Hispanic Patients With Cancer Used Telehealth Less Often Than White Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer Black and Hispanic patients with cancer used telehealth (including phone encounters and video visits) compared to White patients, according to findings from an analysis of data from New York City hospitals. Significant disparities in the use of...
Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Cancer
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) took the step it had been avoiding for weeks and declared that the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the virus that causes it, now identified as SARS-CoV-2, had reached global pandemic levels, the first pandemic sparked by a...
Is Implicit Bias Contributing to Time Disparities in Goals-of-Care Conversations With Minority Patients?
GUEST EDITOR Addressing the evolving needs of cancer survivors at various stages of their illness and care, Palliative Care in Oncology is guest edited by Jamie H. Von Roenn, MD, FASCO. Dr. Von Roenn is ASCO’s Vice President of Education, Science, and Professional Development. It has been well...
Is Implicit Bias Contributing to Time Disparities in Goals-of-Care Conversations With Minority Patients?
GUEST EDITOR Addressing the evolving needs of cancer survivors at various stages of their illness and care, Palliative Care in Oncology is guest edited by Jamie H. Von Roenn, MD, FASCO. Dr. Von Roenn is ASCO’s Vice President of Education, Science, and Professional Development. It has been well...
National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines: Improving Education on the Tenets of Palliative Care
The provision of palliative care (primary or specialty) is paramount to providing excellent quality care to all patients with cancer. Palliative care is associated with improving the quality of life, mood, and survival in patients with cancer. In fact, ASCO guidelines recommend that patients with...
Challenges and Successes of Adopting an Oncology Care Model
IN ORDER TO rein in the untenable rise in costs while delivering high-value cancer care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation developed a new payment system—the Oncology Care Model. At the 2018 ASCO Quality Care Symposium, Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, shed light on the system’s...
