Students Win 2nd Place Prize for Best Poster Presented at the International Cancer Education Conference 2013

Doctoral students Sharon H. Baik, first author, and Tonya M. Pan, second author, won a second place prize for their poster, “Coping with Cancer: A Cancer Education Program for the Deaf Community”  at the International Cancer Education Conference 2013.   The presentation was on the development of a new coping with cancer education program in American Sign Language for the Deaf community. Specifically, the poster described the processes involved in developing the cancer education videos and the plans for evaluating the efficacy and professional qualities of the videos. The final program will consist of approximately 80 brief videos on issues related to cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.  This education program is being developed in collaboration with the UCSD Moores Cancer Center’s 16-year-long partnership with the Deaf community.   See more information below:

Conference: International Cancer Education Conference 2013 (9/18-9/21/13; Seattle, WA)

Authors: Sharon H. Baik (1,2), Tonya M. Pan (1,2), Vanessa L. Malcarne (1,2,3), Patricia Branz (1), Matthew Fager (1), Georgia Robins Sadler (1,2,4)

Sharon H. Baik, the first author, is a second year doctoral student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, specializing in Behavioral Medicine. She works under the supervision of Dr. Vanessa Malcarne, Dr. Georgia Robins Sadler, and Dr. Elizabeth Klonoff. Her research interests include coping with cancer and cancer survivorship, health disparities among underserved populations, and access to health care and information.

Tonya M. Pan, the second author, is a first-year doctoral student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, specializing in Behavioral Medicine. She works under the supervision of Dr. Vanessa Malcarne, Dr. Georgia Robins Sadler, and Dr. Kristen Wells. She has broad research interests related to the biopsychosocial aspects of the cancer control continuum: prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship, and is particularly interested in exploring these topics as they relate to the following populations: 1) medically underserved communities; 2) child, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors; and 3) family members/caregivers of people with cancer.