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Advancing Health Equity in Cancer Care: Fireside Chat with Dora Hughes, MD

Published

November 2022

Advancing Health Equity in Cancer Care: Fireside Chat with Dora Hughes, MD

Flatiron Health's James Hamrick, MD, MPH, VP of Clinical Oncology, sat down for a fireside chat with Dora Hughes, MD, Chief Medical Officer at the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Watch to learn more about how the CMS Innovation Center is focusing on health equity and its impact on cancer care across both prevention and control. Discover how technology can help to advance health equity in cancer care and how Flatiron is supporting this mission.

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Speakers:

Dora Hughes, MD, Chief Medical Officer at the CMS Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

She leads the Center’s work on health equity, provides clinical and policy advice on model development, and liaises with the Innovation Center’s stakeholder community. Prior to this role, Dr. Hughes was on faculty at The George Washington University in Washington DC. She has consulted in the life science industry and served in senior roles at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in the U.S. Senate.

James Hamrick, MD, MPH, VP of Clinical Oncology, Flatiron Health 

Dr. James Hamrick is currently Vice President of Clinical Oncology at Flatiron Health, where his team oversees the clinical development of new features in OncoEMR® as well as Flatiron's other clinician-facing software and services. James maintains a clinical practice part-time at Kaiser Permanente of Georgia in Atlanta, where he previously served as chief of medical oncology and hematology.

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