Community Trainings

 2005-2008 Training Topics (Please note that topics and trainers are subject to change)

Cancer Etiology – symptoms, treatments, different cancer types, myths, misperceptions

September 28, 2005, Mr. Zul Surani, Program Coordinator, NCI-Cancer Information Service

Cancer registry-understanding registries, importance of data, where are Pacific Islanders? & Pacific Islander Demographics

November 9, 2005 , Dr. Myles Cockburn, USC Department of Medicine & Mr. Daniel Ichinose, Project Director, Demographic Research Unit, Asian Pacific American Legal Center

Nutrition and cancer- PI specific

March 8, 2005 Dr. Archana McEligot, UCI Assistant Adjunct Professor, Nutrition and Cancer Epidemiology, Epidemiology Division

Logic Modeling

June 14, 2006 - Dr. Sora Park Tanjasiri, Associate Professor, CSUF, Department of Health Science

How to facilitate focus groups and conduct evaluation

August 9, 2006 Dr. Tu-Uyen Nguyen, WINCART Evaluation Consultant

Survivorship strategies: care giving, recurrence, pain management, activity, sexual considerations, partners-spousal, family (children)

November 9, 2006 - Susan Shinagawa, Community Advocate

Physical Activity and Pacific Islanders

January 10, 2007 - Dr. Karen L. Moy, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and Physical Activity Research Collaborative, UCSD

Developing Health Messages

September 12, 2007 - Mr. Zul Surani, NCI - Cancer Information Service

Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma

November 14, 2007, Dr. Wendy Cozen, Assistant Professor of Research, USC Department of Medicine

Clinical Trials

January 9, 2008 - TBD

Additional funding and sustainability – matching and strengthening resources

Date TBA - Ms. Mary Anne Foo, Executive Director, OCAPICA

Other Topics will be posted as they are scheduled