Speaker Profile
MPH, Founder and President, Choose Healthy Life
Biography
Ms. Fraser-Howze is the Founder and President of Choose Healthy Life (CHL), a nonprofit focused on providing Black churches with funding and support to hire faith based health workers to deliver much needed services and preventative care in their respective communities. In its first year, CHL supported 120 churches across 13 states and DC and hosted 3,700 health events at its churches at which over 110,000 individuals were administered COVID19 vaccinations and testing. She previously served as the Senior Vice President at OraSure Technologies, where she pioneered the FDAapproved OraQuick InHome HIV and HCV Tests. She established the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA) in 1987 an organization she ran for 21 years and is now America's largest Black HIVAIDS nonprofit. With over three decades of leadership in health and social welfare, FraserHowze advised two U.S. Presidents on HIVAIDS and received the National Medical Association's Scroll of Merit in 2009.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Laura J. van 't Veer, UCSF
- PMWC 2024 Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins
Pioneer Honoree: Helmy Eltoukhy
Pioneer Honoree: AmirAli Talasaz, Guardant Health - Utilities of Liquid Biopsy in Biomarker Testing
- Laura Vent Veer, UCSF - Status Quo of Clinical Liquid Biopsy (PANEL)
Chair: Helmy Eltoukhy, Guardant Health
- Sadakatsu Ikeda, Tokyo Medical University
- Heather Parsons, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Sanjay Popat, The Royal Marsden - Liquid Biopsy for Health Monitoring and Disease Prevention (PANEL)
Chair: Anne-Renee Hartman, Adela Bio
- AmirAli Talasaz, Guardant Health
- Heather Parsons, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Mary Pat Lancelotta, Adaptive Bio
- Sylvia Katina Plevritis, Stanford - Multi-Cancer Early Detection Through Multi-Biomarker Class Liquid Biopsy Testing (PANEL)
Chair: Tom Beer, Exact Sciences
- Wendy Rubinstein, National Cancer Institute
- Sheila D. Walcoff, Goldbug Strategies LLC - Keynote: Pioneering Liquid Nucleic Acids Tumor Fragments in Health and Diseases
- David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins - New Approaches in Liquid Biopsy (PANEL)
Chair: Victor Velculescu, Johns Hopkins
- David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins
- Dan Laudau, NY Genome Center
- Daniel De Carvalho, University of Toronto - Global Implications: A scalable Liquid Biopsy for HPV-related Cervical Cancer (PANEL)
Chair: Debra Fraser-Howze, D. Fraser Associates
- Belinda Nedjai, Wolfson Institute of Population Health
- Elisabeth Adams, Aquarius Population Health Limited - NCI Showcase
- Xiaohui Ni, Early Dx
- Daniel Kim, UCSC
