Renowned cancer researcher Karen Meneses, PhD, will present the UB School of Nursing’s 5th Annual Margaret A. Nelson Lecture.

The talk, “Cancer Survivorship Disparities Research: Experience with Networking, Collaboration, and Mentoring,” will take place on April 10 at 2 p.m. in 114 Wende Hall on the South Campus.

The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at 3 p.m.

To register, contact Donna Tyrpak at 716-829-3448.

Meneses, professor and associate dean for research and scholarship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), is an internationally recognized nurse scientist in breast cancer survivorship.

In 2013, she was appointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee on breast cancer in young women. And in 2006, she was appointed to the National Cancer Advisory Board by former President George W. Bush.

Her randomized clinical trial of patient-directed, nurse-led quality of life interventions, known as the Breast Cancer Education Intervention, is recognized as a national model of cancer survivorship education and was adopted by the National Cancer Institute.

“We are fortunate that Margaret Nelson’s Endowment has provided for an annual lecture that has not only enabled the School of Nursing to attract high caliber speakers to UB, but also to open this forum to the public,” says Marsha Lewis, PhD, dean and professor of the School of Nursing.

Margaret A. Nelson, a UB School of Nursing alumna, created the endowed fund to honor her late children, Linda Nelson Buettner and Bruce Nelson, who died of complications related to diabetes.

The endowment fund was established to invite a visiting scholar to the UB School of Nursing to commemorate her life-long commitment to the nursing field and educate faculty, students, staff and the community about prevention, early detection and management of diabetes and other chronic illnesses.