The 47th Annual Meeting was held March 12-14, 2023 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.
The 2023 ASPO Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., Distinguished Achievement Award winner was Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD, RD, from the University of Alabama. Dr. Demark-Wahnefried was nominated by Cynthia Thomson, PhD, RD, University of Arizona, and Karen Basen-Engquist, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The 2023 Joseph Cullen Award in Tobacco Research winner was Vani Nath Simmons, PhD, from Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Simmons was nominated by Thomas Brandon, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center.
Travel Award Winners
12th Annual Electra Paskett Travel Award for the Top-Ranked Pre- or Post-doctoral Fellow Abstract
Co-Winners
Zhengyi Deng, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine
Lifetime Body Weight Trajectories and Risk of Kidney Cancer: A Large US Prospective Cohort Study
Maci Winn, BS, University of Utah School of Medicine
Incident Diabetes by Obesity-Related Cancer Status and Cancer Treatment Type: A Prospective Study Using Electronic Medical Records Data
ASPO Travel Awards for Top-Ranked Abstracts
Erin Hirsch, MSPH, MSCS, PhD(c), University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Prevalence of USPSTF Recommended Cancer Screenings Among Individuals Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening: An Analysis of the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey
Jennifer Ish, MS, PhD, NIEHS
Residential Proximity to Carcinogenic Industrial Air Emissions and Breast Cancer Incidence in a United States-wide Prospective Cohort
Yoonji Kim, PhD, University of California, Irvine
Association Between Clinical, Demographic Factors, and Substance Use Among Young Adult Survivors of
Childhood Cancer
American Cancer Society 11th Annual Calle/Rodrigurez Minority Travel Award for a Top-Ranked Abstract (Funded by the American Cancer Society)
Marlene Camacho-Rivera, ScD MS MPH, SUNY Downstate School of Public Health
Exploring Sociocultural Influences on Colorectal Cancer Screening among Latino Men: Results from a Multi-State Survey
Dornell Pete, MPH, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Assessing Helicobacter Pylori Infections among Adults from the Navajo Nation
Awards Funded by the National Cancer Institute
Livingstone Aduse-Poku, BSN, MPH, University of Florida
Associations of Fat Mass and Sarcopenia with All-Cause and Cancer-Specific Mortality in Cancer Survivors
Erika Biederman, BSN, PhD, Ohio State University Medical Center
A RCT of Two Interventions to Usual Care for Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening
Manoela Lima Oliveira, MS, RDN, LDN, University of Illinois at Chicago
Diet Quality and Fecal Bile Acid Composition
Yanning Wu, MS, Case Western Reserve University
Epigenetic Aging Differs by Race, Subtype and Social Vulnerability Index in Breast Cancer Patients
Michelle Sodipo, MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer Mortality Rates Partially Explained by Differences in Dietary and Lifestyle Factors