Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Sumedha Penheiter about Minnesota's State Cancer Plan.Dr. Penheiter - an experienced cancer expert - holds a doctoral degree in biochemistry and genetics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She then completed postdoc work at Mayo Clinic focusing on cancer biology and signaling pathways in carcinogenesis. Currently, Dr. Penheiter serves as manager and consultant within the Mayo Clinic strategy department advising on system optimization and enhancement.Listen along as Dr. Penheiter shares her wealth of knowledge on the Minnesota State Cancer Plan.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello everybody, welcome to Health Chatter and today's show is on the state of Minnesota cancer plan, but I'm only guessing that all the different objectives that we're going to be talking about for this particular state plan is appropriate for many of the other states in the country as well.
We'll also link some of our discussion with Healthy People 2030 to see how we here connect with the plans and objectives for the nation as a whole. So stay tuned. In one second, we'll introduce our illustrious guests. We've got a great crew that really does super-duper work in the background for us.
We have our researchers that include Manny Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard. Sheridan also does some marketing work for us. And then our math, our Our production person is Matthew Campbell, who gets our shows out almost on a weekly basis now. So it's been great. This is our, I believe it's close to our 70th show. So it's been a good, good run.
Clarence Jones is my co-host with me on this show. And it's been a wonderful venture. He provides some incredible insights from a community perspective and greatly, greatly appreciated. So Clarence, thanks for being with us. And then also Human Partnership.
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What did I say? 2025, cancer plan. And today we have Dr. Sumeda Penheider from the Mayo Clinic with us. And she's got an illustrious background here. She's done her postdoctoral work at Mayo Clinic and has her doctoral degree in biochemistry and genetics.
She currently works as a manager and consultant with the Mayo Clinic in their strategy department, where she advises on strategies for systems and procedures for clinical practice optimization and enhancement. It's interesting, my daughter in Boston works in that area, in cancer, actually.
Also, she's involved a lot with health equity, which also overlaps with a lot of the different objectives in the state plan. So thank you. Thank you so much for being with us. By the way, she also serves as the vice chair of the Minnesota Cancer Alliance, which frankly was involved in developing this. this plan that we're going to be talking about today. So thank you very, very much.
So let's get this show going here. Let's talk about the answer in general. You know, from your perspective, Sumita, cancer obviously is one of the major chronic diseases that we're facing in the country. Ironically, and maybe sadly, in the state of Minnesota, cancer is the number one cause of death in Minnesota.
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