Folakemi T. Odedina, Ph.D.

The purpose of this study is to develop ethnically sensitive, targeted approaches that will eliminate the cancer disparities experienced by Black men. 

The objective of this pilot stdy is to plan, develop and establish the acceptance and usability of a Point of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (PPCD) iCCaRE Virtual Robot Assistant (ViRA).

The specific aims of this study are to plan and develop a PPCD iCCaRE ViRA model that will provide social determinants of health (SDOH) navigation services, psycho-oncology support and emotional support using qualitative formative research, and to establish the acceptance and usability of the iCCaRE ViRA at a urology clinic among 50 Black men (BM).

The purpose of this study is to determine the intersectional effects of demographic, cognitive and social-determinants of health (SDOH) factors on patients’ perceptions and receptivity to decentralized Clinical Trials in the community setting and at home setting.

The purpose of this registry is to collect detailed clinical, epidemiological and biological information from 5,000 male patients with advanced prostate cancer.

The objectives are to describe the practice patterns of therapeutic agents for treatment of advanced prostate cancer internationally; to assess whether specific treatment patterns are associated with clinically significant adverse events, and evaluate potential interactions with concomitant medications or demographic factors; to identify associations between treatment sequences or combinations and overall survival; to define the patient experience of men with advanced prostate cancer and identify unmet needs in their treatment; and to identify clinical and molecular disease subtypes that predict response to individual treatments, combinations, or sequences.

The primary goal of this study is to establish a database of underrepresented populations who consented to be contacted for biomedical research including clinical trials and bio-specimen research. The database will serve as sampling frames for selecting healthy individuals who initially meet specific study eligibility criteria.

The purpose of this study is to employ mixed methods approach to develop a prostate cancer survivorship care plan (CaP-SCP) tailored to US-born Black men (USbBM), Caribbean-born BM (CBBM) and African-born BM (ABBM) using clinicians’ key informant interviews and survey of CaP Black survivors and to develop a prototype of the digitalized CaP-SCP that integrates quantitative clinical, patient reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and population level data to assess the sensitivity and preliminary impact of the digitalized CaP-SCP  on Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) using community engagement research and behavioral precision medicine.

Augmented reality (AR) immersive technology in healthcare delivers unprecedented, intuitive, realistic visualization and interaction experience for patients in a synthetic and integrated fashion. AR can help patients to manage emotions, pain, combat anxiety or fears, and make better decisions. Combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI), with benefits of accurate machine-learning models, we propose to develop an integrated AI and AR technology Prostate Cancer (CaP) Survivorship Care Plan.

The digitalized CaP-SCP development will be led by the iCCaRE consortium’s Digital Health & Human Services core. They will develop a mobile app that integrates SDOH navigation, standard CaP psycho-oncology support and emotional support. The app’s content will be delivered through AI predictive analytic and recommender system and will be based on the previously conducted interviews and focus groups. 

The digitalized CaP-SRP when used by a patient, will present the following features: 
• A series of short survey questions, which is used by the AI model to predict or recommend a specific intervention(s), educative material(s), or AR interactions with personal CaP survival stories; 
• SDOH navigation that will appropriately connect them with relevant support services and resources in their communities; 
• An emotional support intervention that can establish an empathic rapport with a CaP survivor’s sharing of his story. This will be programmed based on one of the iCCaRe Consortium’s consumer advocates; 
• The psycho-oncology support will be programmed to provide psychoeducation about the PPCD experience, reify and concretize the PPCD experience, and foster hope; 
• Patients can choose to ignore the personalized recommendations and select from a drop-down menu list of contents. 

The app is expected to be downloaded to their mobile smartphone for introduction in the clinical setting and more in-depth use at home. The survivorship care plan can be taken with participants to follow-up appointments for reminders and updates to treatments. We anticipate participants acclimating to the app for approximately 30 minutes in the clinic

The purpose of this study is to test if a culturally tailored virtual navigation program (Second-Life) meet the needs of Black women in learning more about breast health and care for cancer prevention, and mammography screening. We are asking for feedback on the Second-Life experience to determine if the information is easy to understand, relevant, and valuable to the community. The goal is to develop virtual community navigation that helps Black women make informed decisions about their breast healthcare since Black women have high mortality rates from breast cancer compared to other races or ethnicities.

The purpose of this study is to test if the MiCaP Research Digest videos meet the needs of black men in learning more about prostate cancer scientific discoveries. We are asking for feedback on the videos to determine if they are easy to understand, credible, informative, and valuable. The goal is to create educational programming that helps black men make informed decisions about their prostate healthcare since they are diagnosed with prostate cancer more than any other race or ethnicity.