"My role is to ... be more than just the connector in the community, but also the link between the clinical world and the community," says HICCC Community Advisory Board Member Dr. Ginny Mantello.
A distinguished leader in surgery, medicine, and academia, Dr. Forde applied a strong but gentle approach to enacting change during his longstanding career.
A new grant from the National Institute of Health will establish a multi-institutional group in New York City to address health disparities in multiple chronic diseases.
New grant addresses skin cancer and HPV cancer prevention in Staten Island, where melanoma cases are higher than the rest of New York City and HPV vaccination rates have decreased.