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Disparities in Prostate Cancer for Black Men: Bridging the Gap

ZERO – The End of Prostate Cancer is committed to bridging the gap between racial and health disparities in prostate cancer among Black men. Our team, in collaboration with our Prostate Cancer Health Equity Task Force, will help bring awareness of prostate cancer to high-risk men, strengthen existing early detection and education initiatives, and identify new ways to further address these issues in a consistent and impactful manner.

Our focus is on three pillars of impact:

Education & Awareness

The Task Force will form new partnerships and expand on current partnerships in the faith-based community, with HBCUs, community clinics, national panhellenic fraternities, and others to increase awareness and the importance of early detection of prostate cancer to the most high-risk men.

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Clinical Trial Advocacy

The Task Force will work with industry and government partners to increase awareness of clinical trials among the Black community, make strides in distrust between Black men and the medical community, and ensure racial diversity is included in clinical trial design and enrollment.

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Financial Assistance & Patient Support

Leveraging ZERO’s proven track record of successful patient program implementation of ZERO360, MENtor, Caregiver Connector, ZERO Drive, and ZERO Connect, the Task Force will work with community partners and leaders to increase awareness of available patient resources and programs.

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ZERO’s Prostate Cancer Health Equity Task Force

Patients, physicians, and community leaders all have a role to play in eradicating health disparities among African-Americans. Bringing together the perspectives of clinicians, patients, caretakers, and those who’ve lost loved ones to prostate cancer, ZERO’s Task Force is playing a crucial role in advising and directing programs and communications to ultimately eliminate outcome disparities amongst the African American community.

Task Force Members:

Robert Ginyard

ZERO - The End of Prostate Cancer

Chairman of the Board

Robert Ginyard

ZERO - The End of Prostate Cancer

An entrepreneur, former banker, and marketing director, Robert is a veteran ZERO Summit speaker who promotes prostate cancer awareness and overall good health. He regularly shares his prostate cancer journey on radio and TV programs and through social media to inspire and encourage others.

Robert is a prostate cancer survivor and serves as the Chairman of ZERO’s Board of Directors. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two daughters.

Dr. Stanley Frencher, M.D.

MLK Community Hospital, Los Angeles

Director, Surgical Outcomes & Quality

Dr. Stanley Frencher, M.D.

MLK Community Hospital, Los Angeles

As medical director of Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Dr. Stanley Frencher is charged with the strategy, delivery, and growth of surgical specialties for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, specifically the quality of the program, clinical outcomes, new services, referral development, and daily medical practice operations of the surgical services.

Dr. Frencher directed prostate health research through a partnership with the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program (BBHOP), a national initiative aimed at improving the health of African American men through barbershops and a network of community resources reaching more than 10,000 African American men in nearly 25 cities from 2008-2011. Working with BBHOP’s expanded network of collaborators and supporters, Dr. Frencher’s published research work has helped increase and diversify the organization’s funding by more than $2 million.

Dr. Stanley Frencher graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in biology/sociology. He earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During medical school, he obtained a master's degree in public health at Columbia University as a Macy's Scholar. Immediately prior to starting residency, Dr. Frencher briefly interned on Capitol Hill for Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) working on health-related policy. He then became the first Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar sponsored by the American College of Surgeons. During that time, he conducted surgical quality-of-care research at UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy, interrupting his urology residency training at Yale.

After completing his residency, Dr. Frencher was recruited to the UCLA Department of Urology as an assistant professor-in-residence, medical director of surgical outcomes and quality at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, and the lead physician of urology at Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Outpatient Center.

Dr. Frencher has recently been named Top Doctor by Los Angeles County’s MLK Outpatient Center and one of the Top 40 Under 40 Healthcare Professionals by the National Medical Association. His focus continues to be improvement of surgical quality, access to specialty care for vulnerable populations, and minority men’s health.

Landi Maduro

BlueChild Entertainment, LLC

Producer

Landi Maduro

BlueChild Entertainment, LLC

Landi Maduro is no stranger to making her own path. She has worked professionally as a singer and actress for over 10 years. However, unhappy with the lack of roles available to African American women, she decided to go a different route and explore writing, producing and photography.

The first project Landi produced was, "I Can't Pretend". She developed a fondness for producing and discovered a propensity for wearing many hats. Next she co-produced and starred in "Sheroes". The dual role as co-producer and star was an exhilarating experience. Not content to stop there, she decided to take on the ultimate challenge of directing. She made her directorial debut shooting the infomercial for the book, "Faces I Have Seen" and she has continued to direct and produced short films, features, music videos, small business commercials, business tutorials and documentaries since launching her production company, Bluechild Entertainment, in 2012.

Her most fulfilling project to date is, The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer In The African American Community. With this documentary she challenged herself as a writer, producer, and director and began touring and lecturing nationwide advocating prostate cancer awareness. She is also the proud leader of Women of Color Filmmakers; an organization that supports and provides motivational speakers and educational programs to female filmmakers as they pursue careers in film and television.

Chas Rodgers

ZERO Prostate Cancer Champion

Patient, Veteran, & Advocate

Chas Rodgers

ZERO Prostate Cancer Champion

I am a native of Dayton, Ohio, and a US Navy Veteran. I am a father of 3 amazing teenagers now.

My professional career has been in sales, fitness coaching, operations, and entrepreneurship. My current role is as the Military Operations Performance & Outreach Officer for the Military Division of F45 Training. Since I am a numbers guy! F45 began here in North America in 2013, the same year I was diagnosed with Prostate cancer and at the age of 45! Will just leave that here.

So, the prostate cancer journey is nothing that happened to me; it was something I was given to become what I am today. The road on this path forced me to focus on being better in all things, especially my overall health. Yes, I am a fitness professional, but not a health professional and there were many things I did not understand about my cancer. It was frustrating so I threw myself into learning as much as possible so that I would be able to help other men and their families. My test and numbers at the start just happened to be so high on the Gleason scale that the action to be taken was forced upon me. My family and I had to take aggressive action if I was to get through this journey and the treatments I’ve been through over the past seven years. I will not list them here but a few of note: the radical prostate surgery and intense targeted radiation really took a toll on my physical and mental state for a very long while. Yet, I remained positive and optimistic that if I did what my team asked and stayed the course I would get through what needed to be done. My intention today is to be better than I was yesterday. I work with several different organizations to spread awareness and advocate, Zero Cancer and Pfizer Biopharmaceutical to name a couple. I am grateful each day that they allow me to have a voice and a role in helping others get informed and get out in front of their treatment plans with their medical teams. The best thing and parting humble advice I would offer to anyone starting or already on their Prostate cancer journey. Please seek help from several resources and be your own best advocate! The more you know and can understand about the best course of action to take in your treatment plan the better prepared you will be for what is or may not be to come.

Do your homework! Do it for yourself! Lean on others when you must! Get it done! All of it the DRE, the PSA, and all other medical checkups. It will save your life. It is the very reason I get to still be here with you all today.

Dr. Kelvin Moses, M.D.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Associate Professor of Urology

Dr. Kelvin Moses, M.D.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Kelvin A. Moses is an Assistant Professor of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and director of the Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Clinic.

He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College, and received his MD and PhD training at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his urology training at Emory University, followed by a fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as Chief Administrative Fellow.

His clinical practice focuses on advanced prostate cancer, including conducting several clinical trials, as well as surgical management of advanced renal and testicular cancer. His work focuses on addressing health disparities in urologic cancers, determining the role of health literacy in patient interactions with the health care system, and optimal care for patients with metastatic and/or castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Dr. Moses also serves on ZERO's Board of Directors and Medical Advisory Board.

Dr. Arturo Holmes II

SUNY Health Sciences University

Urology Resident

Jeff McKissack

Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center

CEO (Former)

Ronald C. Small

100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee

Vice Chairman

Ronald C. Small

100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee

Ronald C. Small is currently the Chairman of the 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, Inc. (The 100). Established in 1991, The 100 is a non-profit organization providing resources to further the academic and social development of black male students in Nashville and the surrounding Middle Tennessee area. The 100 has provided almost one million dollars in scholarships since its inception.

Since 2002, Mr. Small has been an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, representing defendants in a wide range of felony criminal offenses and on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Small is also a retired Air Force Judge Advocate retiring in 2016 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with 25 years of service.

Teedra Bernard

Transunion

SVP, Chief Talent & Diversity Officer

Teedra Bernard

Transunion

Lafayette Greenfield

ZERO Prostate Cancer Champion

Patient & Advocate

Deacon Lyndon Nicholson

Zion Baptist Church

Dr. LaMonica Stewart

Meharry Medical College

Associate Professor

Dr. LaMonica Stewart

Meharry Medical College

Dr. LaMonica Stewart was born and raised in Dallas, TX. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from University of Texas Medical Branch. After completing postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute and Baylor College of Medicine, she joined the faculty at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Stewart is currently a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology.

At Meharry, Dr. Stewart teaches medical and Ph.D. graduate students and performs preclinical prostate cancer research. For over fifteen years, Dr. Stewart has studied the regulation of prostate cancer growth and progression by growth factors and members of the nuclear receptor superfamily. Her work in prostate cancer has been supported by grant funding from NIH as well as the Department of Defense. Dr. Stewart also serves as Interim Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research and Director of the Meharry Cancer Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

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