On May 17, 2025, Saturday, American Cancer Society, City of Hope, and Lion's Club will host a free cancer health symposium at City of Hope, Cooper Auditorium, 1500 E Duarte Rd., Duarte, CA 91010 on cancer health advancement and tobacco prevention and control.  The event will be live-streamed via YouTube. You may also personally join the watch party hosted by Breast Cancer Hawaii together to raise awareness! Registration is required.  

Highlighted Activities:

• Health Resources Fair from 12 to 1 pm Pacific Standard Time (City of Hope Cooper Auditorium, Duarte, California)

• Youth Media Contest Gallery (City of Hope Cooper Auditorium, Duarte, California)

• Cancer Experts Talk from 1 to 4:30 pm Pacific Standard Time, will be live-streamed via YouTube

• Cancer survivors' perspectives

• Free refreshment

• Raffle drawings

• Join a Watch Party 

The symposium will be conducted in English and live-treamed with simultaneous Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, and Hindi interpretations. 

Please remember to bring your charged headset and phone to access the in-language interpretation channels during the event.

Event Parking Map: https://tinyurl.com/2024COH-Parking

Featured Speakers and Panelists:

• Vijay Trisal, M.D. – System Chief Clinical Officer, City of Hope

• Loretta Erhunmwunsee, M.D. – Vice President & Chief Health Access & Community Enrichment Officer, City of Hope

• Kimlin Ashing, Ph.D. – Founding Director, CCare, City of Hope

• Ryotaro Nakamura, M.D. – Hematologist-Oncologist, City of Hope

• Ping Wang, M.D. – Endocrinologist, City of Hope

• Xiaoqiang Wang, M.D., Ph.D. – Staff Scientist, City of Hope

• Jeannie Shen, M.D. – Surgical Oncologist, Cedars-Sinai

• Timothy R. Donahue, M.D. - Surgical Oncologist, U.C.L.A.

• John Maa, M.D. – General Surgeon, Marin General Hospital

• Cynthia Song, P.H.N. – L.A. County Tobacco Control Program

• Michelle Zhang – ACS-YA Youth Cancer Health Ambassador Chair

• Alice Wang, C.H.E.S. –Herald Christian Health Center

• Ying Cherrie Ng – Project Manager, Asian Smokers’ Quitline

• Chrissy Kim – Patient Navigator, City of Hope

• Cancer Survivor Advocates - Deepti Sood, Alice Karin, Zen Glick

Symposium Topics:

• •Asian American Health Care Landscape: Challenges, Innovation, and Advocacy
  •Breast cancer statistics among Asian Americans, Risk Factors, Lifestyle, Prevention in General Population and High Risk, and Screening
  •Advancing Stem Cell Transplants for Severe Aplastic Anemia: Bridging the Donor Gap in Asian Populations
  •Understanding Unique Risk Profiles and Advancing Early Detection of Diabetes in Asian Americans
  •Foods as Medicine to Prevent and Manage Cancer and Diabetes
  •Progress Report on Pancreatic Cancer
  •Improving access to cancer care and research participation among underserved populations, including Asian Americans
  •Exploring how evolving healthcare and tobacco trends impact community health and prevention efforts