Dr. Robert Winn welcomes Dr. Richard Silvera, associate program director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, for a special edition of Real Cancer Talk in a series for Black History Month with The Cancer History Project podcast. Dr. Silvera, one of the first recipients of the Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program grant, discusses his work of building trust with communities in the Bronx dealing with a heavy burden of anal cancer.
This interview originally aired in February 2023.
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