The role of Dana-Farber’s Community Benefits office is to support the Institute’s goal to reduce cancer risk among medically underserved populations. Ms. Contreras and her teamwork with city and state health departments, community partners, and Boston-based coalitions to assess and monitor the needs of local residents with respect to cancer control. They are on the front lines of supporting and collaborating on programs designed to eliminate disparities in breast, colon, and skin cancer; educate diverse populations about tobacco cessation, human papillomavirus (HPV) prevention and screening; and strengthen the support system for medically underserved populations. They are committed to making Dana-Farber’s care and research findings more accessible to everyone within and outside its walls.

Ms. Contreras is a graduate of Boston College, Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work and Suffolk University Sawyer Business School. She has been an Adjunct Faculty member in the Graduate School of Social Work at Salem State University, Simmons College and Boston College.

the American Society of Clinical Oncology Social Determinants of Health working group, and GU committee for NRG oncology. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Health Disparities Committee for Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.

Dr. Borno’s research program consists of prostate cancer therapeutic development and cancer disparities. She serves as medical oncology co-chair for phase III clinical trials and is the principal investigator for clinical trials conducted at HDFCCC in advanced prostate cancer. Dr. Borno has an extensive research program on the promotion of equity in cancer precision medicine.

She has developed novel recruitment technologies that are clinician and patient facing to promote diversity and inclusion of racial/ethnic minorities in clinical trials. Dr. Borno used human-centered design to develop Trial LibraryTM, a patient facing clinical trial matching tool. Dr. Borno’s research has been featured in peer-reviewed journals such JAMA Oncology, Cancer, and Nature. Her work has been covered by national news outlets such as NPR, Washington Post, CBS News, Bloomberg News, and STAT News.

Dr. Borno graduated with honors in biochemistry and received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Medical Alumni Loyalty Fund Scholar. She completed her internal medicine residency and medical oncology fellowship training at UCSF. She served as chief oncology fellow at UCSF and was a National Institute on Aging T32 research fellow in the Division of Geriatrics.

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.”