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Emerson ‘Randy’ Hall, Jr., PhD

Sep 2, 2021

Survivor

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Dr. Emerson ‘Randy’ Hall, Jr., has a long professional career in strategic marketing and program effectiveness. Randy’s expertise includes activating patient advocates, professional societies, thought leaders, consumers and other stakeholders to meet both corporate and not-for-profit objectives. He is highly skilled at designing and directing the integration and implementation of advocacy and professional relations, thought leader development, multi-cultural marketing, direct-to-consumer marketing, and coalition building programs.

Randy has been responsible for generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues by successfully leading new business development, strategic marketing initiatives, and constituency

and public relations programs within the pharmaceutical, information technology and market research industries. While improving health care awareness and treatment for a host of diseases, including prostate cancer, stroke, diabetes, sepsis, osteoporosis, sarcoidosis, depression and an array of other major mental illnesses, Randy has led efforts to drive tens of millions of patients to better health treatments and outcomes.

Randy has decades of actively helping not-for profit organizations to develop strategic marketing plans, improve programmatic effectiveness and increase their funding and donations. He has been on the board and/or volunteered for numerous groups including the National Medical Association, National Osteoporosis Foundation, Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, St. Vincent’s Hospital Network, American Diabetes Association, Association for Clinicians for the Underserved, Habitat for Humanity, Save The Children, Mentoring in Medicine, 100 Black Men of America, New Federal Theater, The Johns Hopkins University, Howard University Public Television, the Coppin State University Development Foundation, the University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, and many more.

Randy is a recipient of the first ever Dedicated Advocate for the Underserved Award from the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, the society of health care professionals that treat the poorest and neediest within our country. He has won awards and recognitions for many of his efforts, including the Award for Outstanding Service… from the American Diabetes Association and a coveted Telly for Beating the Blues, an award winning series of stigma-busting, mental health PSAs (public service announcements). The National Mental Health Association awarded Randy for dedication to their Campaign on Clinical Depression; and, he is co-recipient with wife, Dr. Freda C. Lewis-Hall, of Coppin State University’s Life Time Achievement Award.

Prior to retirement, Randy maintained a consulting practice, specializing in creating relationships between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations to improve health care outcomes. Projects included developing strategic marketing plans for infectious disease medicines and improving program efficiencies for neurological disorders. He has also assisted on projects with the Healthcare Business Women’s Association as well as the Power to End Stroke.

Randy has a Ph.D. in Public Service from the University of Maryland System and a Bachelor of Science degree from The John Hopkins University. Randy has also completed course work and training at several institutions including George Washington University’s Masters in Telecommunications, Georgetown University Graduate Studies in Legislative Affairs and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

In his spare time, Randy, Gentle Grey Wolf, (tribal name), helps the Nanticoke Indian Association and people. He oversees the operation of several entrepreneurial efforts. He travels extensively to enjoy the world’s best deep sea fishing and great family vacations with his loving wife, three children, son-in-law, five grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Mark Pomerantz, MD

Sep 2, 2021

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Medical Oncologist

Dr. Mark Pomerantz is a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Pomerantz received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from Stanford University. He trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He then pursued a fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dr. Pomerantz received his post-doctoral training in cancer genetics with Dr. Matthew Freedman at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He is on faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology.

Mr. Rausan Battle

Sep 2, 2021

Survivor

It started when Rausan Battle noticed he was losing energy and did not feel well, for no obvious reason. “Physically, I couldn’t recover quickly from simply walking up some stairs,” he said. “I knew something was wrong.” He was diagnosed with prostate cancer October 2018 when he was only 45-yeras old. When he started chemotherapy treatments, his PSA was over 1400. A body scan and CAT scan revealed the disease had metastasized “all over my body—rib cage, jaw, all over.” Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) put the disease at bay. After the shots, his PSA dropped drastically and “the lesions on bones vanished.” Best of all, ”I feel good and am back to work full time.”

Covid-19 pandemic changed his work schedule. After a 14-day quarantine as a precaution, Battle now works in a rotation with other facility management teams—two weeks in the office and two weeks working remotely. Of the 134 people employed at his site, only 15 people are allowed in the facility at a time. “It was weird when I first started,” (working remotely). “Everybody on Zoom, on the phone and computer all day.” He goes for a walk every morning, and uses a home gym for workouts.

Thanks to PHEN, Battle is finding a supportive community and resources to “explain terminology and best practices to me.” “He was also invited to a meeting with PHEN sponsor, the biopharma company Amgen,—and found that experience refreshing. “It was my first time being around others going through the same thing,” He’s finding the information, “very helpful.”

Waseem Hussain, MD

Sep 2, 2021

Luminis Healthcare System

Associate Regional Medical Director for Primary Care

Watch Video – Discusses the Incorporation of the PHEN Early Detection Screening Program in Luminis Healthcare Practice

Dr. Waseem Hussain is Associate Regional Medical Director for Primary Care and a practicing family physician in the Luminis Healthcare System. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, completed his family practice residency in Chicago, and has been a practicing board certified family physician since 1999. He is also a multiple-time winner of Washingtonian Magazine’s Top Doctor and Castle Connelly Top Doctor Award, became a Fellow in the American Association of Family Physicians in 2007, and was recently given the Luminis Health Physician.

Angelo Moore, PhD, RN, NE-BC

Sep 2, 2021

Duke Cancer Institute Office of Health Equity

Program Manager

Watch Video – Dr. Moore discusses the incorporation of the PHEN early detection screening program into the Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity at Duke Cancer Institute

Dr. Angelo D. Moore is the Program Manager, Duke Cancer Institute Office of Health Equity, where he provides overall direction, coordination, and implementation DCI’s community impact-designed projects to reduce cancer outcomes disparities in the DCI community and across its Catchment Area. The Office of Health Equity mission is to reduce cancer disparities and improve population health in their catchment area for historically marginalized and medically underserved populations such as the African American, LatinX, Asian American, Native American, Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ+, refugee, and rural communities.

He received his BSN in 1995 from Winston-Salem State University, MSN in 2002 from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and PhD in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served 25 years in the U.S. Army and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. He has over 25 years of nursing experience in Medical-Surgical, Critical Care, and Primary Care Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner. He has held multiple leadership positions including Charge Nurse, Nurse Manager, Commander, as well as multiple Executive Leadership positions such as Deputy Chief & Chief for the Centers for Nursing Science & Clinical Inquiry, and Chief Nurse of Education for the Fayetteville VA Medical Center which also included 8 Community-Based Outpatient Clinics throughout Southeastern North Carolina. He is a board-certified Nurse Executive.

Dr. Moore is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. He enjoys mentoring and teaching. He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented podium presentations at local, regional, national, and international conferences. He is a member of several professional organizations, serves on several local, regional, and national committees, and takes special interest in encouraging higher education and increasing and retaining the number of health professions students from historically marginalized populations.

Dr. Moore was awarded the 2002 Distinguished Clinical Performance Award at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 2004 Outstanding Military RN at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, 2012 National Black Nurses Association Nurse Researcher of the Year, the 2012 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing Graduate of the Last Decade Alumni Awardee, a 2013 Winston-Salem State University Alumni Achiever Awardee, and inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit in 2015. In 2019, the Uniformed Services University blog “Pulse” featured him in their “Black History Month Profiles: 20 Inspiring Uniformed Services University Alumni.”

Mr. Robbie Robinson

Sep 1, 2021

Prostate Health Education Network, Inc. (PHEN)

PHEN Support Group Coordinator

Watch Video – PHEN Network Members Outreach and Initiatives

Mr. Robbie Robinson is the PHEN Support Group Coordinator and a 19 year prostate cancer survivor. In his role with PHEN, he provides education, awareness and outreach to men diagnosed with prostate cancer at the monthly support group sessions and over the phone. Mr. Robinson is retired from the Boston Public School System.