Upcoming Events

Saving Lives In Brooklyn: A Symposium on Increasing Mammography Screening Rates

11/11/08 - 6:00pm

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

395 Lenox Rd - Alumni Auditorium

Brooklyn, NY 11203

As a result of attending this symposium learners will:

Receive tools and information to increase their knowledge of current evidence for mammography screening in women;

Be able to assess their current knowledge and use tools received to improve patient outcomes.

5:30-6:00 pm Registration Check-in

6:00-7:30 pm Presentations & Dinner

Welcome and Introductions

Mammography Screening Data: The Brooklyn Story

Keynote Speakers

The Latest Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines, Risk Assessment, & Current Evidence for Providers & Health Systems Interventions

Primary Care Provider Toolkit- The 4 Essentials

7:30 Dialogue with the experts

To screen or not to screen? 85 and looking good (so why the 23% mammography rate?)