How Mentorship is Reducing Health Disparities in Multiple Myeloma | Dr. Saad Usmani & Dr. Mikhael

Join Dr. Joseph Mikhael and Dr. Saad Usmani as they discuss the crucial role of mentorship in addressing health disparities in multiple myeloma, the most disparate cancer in the African American community. Learn how the International Myeloma Foundation’s (IMF) M-Power program and Medical Student Scholars for Health Equity Mentoring program are improving outcomes for underrepresented populations.

Dr. Usmani shares insights from his experience mentoring medical students, like Yasmine Griffiths, and their research on immunotherapy and its impact across diverse racial and ethnic groups.

In this video:
0:00 - Introduction: How can we address health disparities in multiple myeloma?
0:30 - How the IMF is addressing health disparities with the M-Power Program
1:24 - Introducing Multiple Myeloma Expert Dr. Saad Usmani (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
2:30 - The importance of mentorship for minority medical students and its impact on the community
5:05 - Dr. Usmani's experience as an expert mentor, guiding the research study in myeloma health disparities
6:29 - Dr. Usmani shares his perspective on Yasmine Griffiths (Howard University College of Medicine—Washington, DC) his student mentee.
7:00 - How immune therapies are shaping cancer research
8:29 - About the project: learning about the impact of immune therapies based on race and ethnicity
10:58 - Health outcomes in the Black and Latino American population
15:27 - what is the next step for their research project?
16:32 - The #IMFMEDSCHOLAR program outcomes including projects accepted as abstracts at ASH


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