The Wayne State University School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs & Professional Development welcomes all members of our community to join us for a special interactive presentation & discussion:

Digital Inclusion in Cancer Care

**This session meets the state mandate for implicit bias training and includes one hour of training.**

In this 1-hour presentation, participants will explore how digital inclusion shapes cancer care and outcomes, with a focus on populations disadvantaged by disparities. The session will also outline approaches to close the digital divide and advance digital health equity.

Learning Objectives:

• Examine digital divide as a social determinant of health.
• Describe digital equity and digital inclusion frameworks relevant to cancer care, outcomes, and disparities.
• Identify approaches to advancing digital inclusion in cancer care.

Guest Speaker:

Hayley S. Thompson, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Oncology at Wayne State University. She is the Associate Center Director for Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) at Karmanos Cancer Institute (KCI), a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and established the Karmanos Office of Community Outreach and Engagement.  Dr. Thompson is a clinical psychologist whose research addresses racial disparities in cancer care and outcomes, including cancer survivorship.  As a behavioral scientist, Dr. Thompson has received research funding as a principal investigator (PI) from the NCI, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), American Cancer Society (ACS), and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), as well as multiple philanthropic foundations.  She is currently PI of the American Cancer Society Cancer Health Research Center, “The Digital Engagement and Cancer Outcomes (DECO) Center” (CHERC-25-1414810-01-CHERC).  The center includes three separate research studies and will build and strengthen connections with Detroit’s digital equity ecosystem to link Black cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers disadvantaged by the digital divide with resources promoting digital inclusion. She is also a co-principal investigator of an NCI-funded P01 subproject to increase genetic counseling and testing among high-risk Black cancer survivors (P01CA272239).  Dr. Thompson also developed the Group-Based Medical Mistrust Scale, which has been widely used in health disparities research and has been administered to participants of 170 published peer-reviewed research studies.