Associate Professor Hee Yun Lee was competitively selected to attend “Excellence in Cancer Education and Leadership,” which is a 2-day workshop that will be held at the 37th Annual Conference of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Work. The workshop is aimed to improve the delivery of psychosocial care for oncology patients through intensive education of oncology social workers and to meet and exceed the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2008 Report – “Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs.” Associate Professor Lee is a faculty member of the U of MN Masonic Cancer Center and plans to improve the delivery of psychosocial care at the center in collaboration with the Association of Oncology Social Work.
Lee was also invited to participate on a Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) to review grant applications submitted to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). SEP Panel will evaluate the scientific and technical merit of research proposals submitted to CDC in response to Request for Application (RFA) DP09-0010501SUPP13: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Special Interest Project Competitive Supplements (SIPS). The panel will specifically review applications for SIPS on the topic of “Understanding the Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening among Asian Subgroups (SIP13-067)” and “Feasibility Study of the New Clinical Measure of Colorectal Cancer Screening for Federally Qualified Health Centers (SIP13-069).”