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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Annet Mulder first became interested in breastfeeding in the year 2000, when she became a mother for the first time. During and because of her own breastfeeding experiences, in 2002 she became a volunteer with the Dutch breastfeeding Organization and in 2008 sat for and passed the exam administered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, she now
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Residencies: University of Chicago Medical Center
Fellowships: University of Chicago Medical Center
Board Certifications: Medical Oncology
Dr. Rudin is a board-certified medical oncologist specializing in the care of patients with lung cancer. In addition to serving as Chief of the Thoracic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, He co-chairs the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Thoracic Committee, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute Thoracic Malignancies Steering Committee.
He directs a broad research program of therapeutic research with the ultimate goal of improving the outcome for patients with lung cancer. His research includes laboratory-based investigations to identify and test novel treatment approaches to lung cancer, early-phase clinical trials to bring these ideas to the clinic, and later-phase studies to establish the efficacy of these new approaches. They are interested in small cell and non-small cell lung cancers. Some of the strategies his group has explored both in the laboratory and in the clinic include turning back on genes silenced in cancer, re-activating cancer cell death pathways, and treating lung cancer with a cancer-specific virus.
Dr. Sen has received several awards for her contribution to lung cancer research- including the 40 under 40 in Cancer award, AACR Women in Cancer Research scholar award, and AACR Scholar-in-training award. She is the author of several peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and has received independent grant funding from the Department of Defense, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Lung Cancer Research Foundation, and The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC).
She is actively involved in outreach activities, mentoring, and a passionate advocate of equal opportunity for women in STEM fields. She has served as the two-time president of the Association for Women in Science Gulf Coast Houston Chapter and currently on the leadership board of 500 Women Scientists NYC pod.
