February 20, 2009

BIRMINGHAM -- The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, along with the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Howell and Elizabeth Heflin Center for Human Genetics, are hosting a health disparities genetics seminar noon, Thurs., Feb. 26, in the UAB Cancer Center Board Room at UAB Hospital. 

Katrina Armstrong, M.D., associate professor of medicine and epidemiology, and associate director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver the lecture "Genomics & Health Disparities: Translating New Genetic-Based Treatments into Clinical Practice and Health Equity."

Armstrong is director of research in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and a member of the NIH-sponsored he Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include medical decision making, genetic testing for breast cancer, risk communication, cancer prevention and control, quality of care and cancer outcomes.

She also is a member of the National Human Genome Institute Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetic Variation Research Consortium, and the Centers for Disease Control Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Prevention and Practice Working Group.

For more information or to register, call 1-877-MHRC-UAB or email rgilinson@uab.edu.