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The Cancer Screening Landscape webinar series is a 6 webinar series offered in a live webinar format scheduled every other month on the second Wednesday of the month from 12-1pm. The live opportunity offers the opportunity to ask questions of the Subject Matter Expert (SME) as well as dialogue with colleagues about the cancer and cancer screening landscape. 1 Continuing Education credit will be awarded for each webinar attended.
The desired outcomes of this series are:
- Develop competencies to communicate cancer screening awareness and patient education effectively.
- Describe best practices to determine appropriate testing for individuals that meet guidelines for cancer screening.
- Explain existing and emerging issues, policies, and barriers to optimizing cancer screening.
The Cervical Cancer Screening Landscape webinar is currently in development with the UVA Medical Education team and information should be available soon.
Teaching sunbeatables to grades 2-5 at Enderly Elementary School’s summer camp program.
Teaching sunbeatables to grades 2-5 at Enderly Elementary School’s summer camp program.
This event is open to those agencies/organizations/coalitions/Veteran Owned Businesses who serve veterans and their families in Far SW Virginia/East Tennessee/Eastern Kentucky. The Far SW Veteran’s Coalition is presenting this event in an effort to provide information about a variety of resources to Veterans and their families in Far SW Virginia/East Tennessee/Eastern Kentucky.
Vendor flyer and qr code for 1st Annual Veteran and Military Fa
The Sunbeatables program begins a 16-course at Buena Vista City Public Schools- FW Kling ES on August 27, 2024.
The University of Virginia’s Comprehensive Cancer Center works with school programs to implement Ray and the Sunbeatables®: A Sun Safety Curriculum. This free, evidence-based curriculum educates children, parents, and teachers about sun protection and promotes sun safety behaviors to reduce children’s lifetime risk of developing skin cancer. The curriculum was developed by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
For more details about this program, contact Iqra Haji @ aay3kj@uvahealth.org
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Free Screenings and Information on insurance, medicare, heart health, massage, yoga, home health, and more. UVACC COE will be in attendance for cancer-related information and navigation. UVACC COE is not hosting. Please contact Tilda Mullins at Tilda.VistaGroup@gmail.com for information about this event.
Details to follow.
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Working together to reach 80% screening rates for colorectal cancer in every community!
Join the Virginia Colorectal Cancer Roundtable and Ballad Health for a day of collaboration and action planning to address colorectal cancer in our region.
Learn how colorectal cancer is impacting the region
Hear the latest efforts around colorectal cancer screening from the region and the state
Collectively develop a regional plan to address the colorectal cancer burden
To register, please visit Register for event