Conference Speakers
Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:


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Speakers (5191)
Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Science (2012 - 2016)
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
M.D. in Medical Course (1998 - 2004)
CLINICAL MEDICAL EMPLOYMENT
Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (2004 – 2008, 2010 – 2012)
Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (2008 – 2010)
Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, Tokyo, Japan (2016 – current)
Dr. Samson’s clinical interests include multi-modality therapy for malignancies of the lung, esophagus, and mediastinum as well as radiation therapy for cardiac arrhythmias refractory to medical management. Her clinical research has focused on treatment allocation modeling for early Stage NSCLC patients, decision analysis research, and cost-effectiveness analyses. In addition to over forty peer reviewed research publications, she has authored several thoracic surgery book chapters, and has served as a coauthor for two surgical review books. She is a member of the American College of Radiology and the American Society for Radiation Oncology. Her national service includes serving on the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable Committee on Survivorship, Stigma, and Nihilism, the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Cancer in the Elderly Committee, and is on the Editorial Board for Radiation Oncology for the Journal of Thoracic Disease.