Mr. Barney Morris

Mr. Barney Morris

Sep 3, 2024

PHEN Ambassador

PHEN Ambassador

Member of Moffitt Cancer Center Patient & Family Advisory Council and Community Advisory Board

Barney Morris is a member of Moffitt Cancer Center’s Patient and Family
Advisory Council and Community Advisory Board. He is the current vice
chairman for Oncology Research Information Exchange Network’s (ORIEN)
Patient Advisory Council where as a cancer survivor and advocate he frequently
uses his public speaking skills and real life experiences to bring home the
importance of being purposeful and intentional in eliminating health care
disparities and inequities particularly as it relates to prostate cancer.

He is the Past President of 100 Black Men of Tampa Bay Inc’s chapter and
Chair of their Health and Wellness committee. Barney is an alumnus of the
University of Georgia (Bachelor of Science in Computer Science), University of
California Riverside ( Certificate in Governmental Accounting and Budgeting),
Air Force Squadron Officer School and Air Force Air Command and Staff
College. He’s a decorated retired Air Force Officer, (Major), having served a
combined total of twenty years between active and reserve forces. Barney
recently retired as an Assistant Inspector in Charge, United States Postal
Inspection Service where he was responsible for the investigative efforts in
Georgia and Florida.

More recently Barney joined the Prostate Health Education Network, PHEN, as
a PHEN Ambassador.

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Ms. Tomeeka Miller

Ms. Tomeeka Miller

Aug 7, 2024

Assistant to the President

Assistant to the President

PHEN

Ms. Tomeeka Miller is no stranger to PHEN’s mission to eliminate the Black prostate cancer disparity, as she played a pivotal role when the organization was founded when her company, Spotlight Communications supported PHEN’s marketing, event strategy, and publicity of the very first African American Prostate Cancer Disparity Summit in 2005. She also helped publicize Thomas A. Farrington’s book, “Battling the Killer Within” as well as promoting the Rally Against Prostate Cancer in partnership with sponsors and church partners to an audience reach of over 20 million. 

As assistant to the President, Tomeeka brings over 20 years of experience in developing and executing strategic communications programs that drive results for nonprofits, federal agencies, and Fortune 100 companies. She built her own marketing company to over $1M in gross revenues and was also named a Boston Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree. Most recently, she led digital and social media teams for Liberty Mutual and USAA, to help better connect digital products with customers.  

Tomeeka holds a master’s degree in journalism and public Affairs from the American University, a bachelor’s degree from Boston College, and an Executive MBA from UMass Boston.

She is a proud army spouse and resides in Charlotte, NC with her husband, Isaac, 6-year-old daughter, London, 16-year-old son, Ethan, and hound dog, Chase. Tomeeka loves cycling and any type of HIIT exercise to help her keep up with the demands of her active family.

 

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Dr. Jay Jhaveri

Dr. Jay Jhaveri

Sep 11, 2023

Director, Medical Affairs - Oncology

Director, Medical Affairs - Oncology

Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Jay Jhaveri, MD, MPH currently serves as Director, Medical Affairs – Oncology at Bayer Pharmaceuticals. He performed a general surgery residency at the New York Medical College, a urology residency at the University of California, Irvine, and research and clinical fellowships at Weill Cornell, New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Henry Ford Health Systems, Vattikuti Urology Institute in prostate cancer outcomes research and minimally invasive urologic surgery, respectively. He also holds a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology and biostatistics and is very well published in several top-tier journals including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Urology, and the Oncologist.

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Mr. Dewayne Charleston

Mr. Dewayne Charleston

Aug 17, 2023

Prostate Cancer Survivor Network Member

Prostate Cancer Survivor Network Member

Publisher of Prairie View Magazine, Former Judge at Waller County

Dewayne Charleston is a former judge who is currently the publisher of Prairie View magazine, which is a monthly publication serving central Texas and the Prairie View A&M University community. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009 at the age of 46 and has undergone three surgeries and seven different therapies, including participation in two clinical trials.

 He was featured in the Tubi documentary The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer in the African American Community. Dewayne Charleston is the proud father of Christian and Christopher

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Dr. Keith Crawford

Dr. Keith Crawford

Aug 3, 2023

Director of Clinical Trials and Patient Education

Director of Clinical Trials and Patient Education

PHEN

Dr. Keith Crawford joined PHEN in 2019.  As Director of Clinical Trials and Patient Education, he is responsible for implementing programs in these areas as well as working with patients and PHEN partners.

Dr. Crawford has more than 20 years of experience in the Life Sciences and completed his graduate and post-graduate training at Harvard Medical School where he developed competencies in the area of genomics, proteomics, immunology, microbiology, infectious diseases, and regenerative medicine.

During his post-doctoral training, Keith was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Harold Amos Fellow. His work in the field of immunology caught the eye of the Department of Defense where he received funding to develop antidotes for chemical and biological weapons exposure as well as create a high throughput platform for the detection of biological weapons and emerging infectious agents.

After completing this directive, Dr. Crawford became the Director of the Center for Molecular Orthopedics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was responsible for leading research efforts at the center, which gave rise to the discovery of a novel population of early lineage adult stem cells.  Dr. Crawford and his colleagues were responsible for the preclinical studies, which laid the foundation for a spinal fusion therapeutic. 

Dr. Crawford is a graduate of Prairie View University, the University of Texas Medical School in Houston (Medical Doctorate), and Harvard University (Doctor Philosophy) where he studied cell biology and immunology.

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Mr. Thomas A. Farrington

Mr. Thomas A. Farrington

Aug 2, 2023

President and Founder

President and Founder

PHEN

Thomas Farrington founded the Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) in 2003 after receiving treatment for prostate cancer in 2000 and publishing his first book Battling The Killer Within in 2001. Under Mr. Farrington’s leadership, PHEN is recognized as the leading prostate cancer education and advocacy organization with national programs and initiatives focused on the needs of African Americans.

A key foundation for PHEN’s success is its national network of prostate cancer survivors and their loved ones who support the organization’s efforts within their communities. PHEN partners with hundreds of churches across the nation to bring education and awareness programs into their communities and recruit local prostate cancer medical specialists as educators for these events.

PHEN also makes extensive use of online programming to reach and support individual educational needs. Mr. Farrington’s background is in Information Technology.  Farrington currently serves as a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s (NCCN) Prostate Cancer Treatment Guidelines Panel and the NCCN Prostate Cancer Early Detection Guidelines Panel. He serves as a trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and as an advisor to a number of other healthcare organizations and programs. Mr. Farrington received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1966.

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