Plenary: "Hello, is it Me You’re Looking For?": Measuring What Matters to Us

Dr. Allyson Berent graduated from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2002 and completed a residency in veterinary internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, followed by a fellowship in interventional radiology and endourology at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University. Since 2009, she serves as the director of the Interventional Endoscopy Service at the Animal Medical Center in NYC. Dr. Berent is the CSO of the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics and the Chief Operating Officer for GeneTx Biotherapeutics, developing a novel antisense olignonucleotide for the treatment of Angelman syndrome, as rare neurogenetic disorder.

Dr. Kemi Doll is a gynecologic oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of OBGYN and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services in the School of Public Health. Her research centers on examining Black-White racial inequity in the care of benign and malignant gynecologic disease in the US. Her research has been funded by the NIH, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She is the co-founder of ECANA, the Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African-Americans (ecanawomen.org) a community-research partnership formed to improve survival among Black women with endometrial cancer.