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Transgender/Nonbinary

Cancer Disparities

Creating a Transdisciplinary Approach
​to Address Transgender/Nonbinary Cancer Disparities

Overview of Initiative:

Transgender and nonbinary (TNB) patients are underserved by the current US healthcare system and experience disparities across the cancer continuum. They face significant barriers to care, and data on cancer and cancer disparities are critically limited. An inclusive understanding of root causes of TNB cancer disparities will elucidate potential solutions and future patient centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research.

​This project bridges the gap in understanding between community and academic partners and builds knowledge to create a patient-centered outcomes research/comparative clinical effectiveness research (PCOR/CER) agenda to reduce TNB cancer disparities. 

Our team, made up of members with diverse cultural, social, and scientific contexts, will:
  1. Engage in a collaborative process that facilitates openness, respect, trust, and stability needed for mutual learning
  2. Co-learn and generate a conceptual model of TNB cancer disparities
  3. Co-create a PCOR/CER research agenda
  4. Disseminate our research agenda in community town halls and in clinical and academic settings 

We anticipate our team’s findings will lead to future collaborative research efforts to mitigate TNB cancer disparities.

​This work is funded through a Eugene Washington Engagement Award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
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Initiative Leadership

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Chandler S Cortina, MD, MS, FSSO, FACS
Academic Co-Leader
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, MCW
Academic Co-Leader
​(he/him)

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Michael Munson, Executive Director, FORGE
Community Co-Leader
​(he/him)

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Andy Petroll, MD, MS
Medical Director, Froedtert & MCW Inclusion Health Clinic, (he/him

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Melinda Stolley, PhD
Associate Director, Population Health, MCW
(she/her)
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Tobi Cawthra, MPH
Program Director, MCW
Facilitator
​(she/her)​
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Laura Pinsoneault, Ph.D.
CEO, Evaluation Plus
(she/her)

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Beth Jeanes, MS
Clinical Research Coordinator III
​(she/her)


​Transdisciplinary Team Members

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Kris Arnold, writer,
transgender activist
(she/her)
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Camdin Gray, MD, MPH
(he/him)
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Dannira Kulenovic, MS
Student
​(they/them)
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Annie Lakatos, DNP, ANP-BC, APNP,
​​ Froedtert & MCW,
Inclusion Health Clinic
(she/her)
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Gwen Lomberk, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology; Chief, Division of Research; Director, Basic Science Research; Department of Surgery, MCW 
​(she/her)





Not Pictured: 
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​Emmett, MS
Information Systems, BA Environmental Policy (he/him)
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Shannon Panszi, MD
Gender educator/consultant, 
founder of 
Engender Love
(she/her)
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Steve Wipijewski, DO
Aurora Healthcare
​(he/him)
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Stuart Wong, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Hematology Oncology, MCW
​(he/him)
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