The Office of Community Outreach and Cancer Health Equity

Despite the overall death rate from cancer in the U.S. falling by 33% between 1991 and 2020, many segments of the U.S. population experience a disproportionate cancer burden, according to the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Cancer Disparities Progress Report.

The University of Chicago Medicine broke ground September 19, 2023 on its $815 million project to build the state’s first and only standalone structure dedicated to cancer care and research. The 575,000-square-foot, seven-story pavilion builds off the University of...

Nita K. Lee, MD, MPH, is the Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) for the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC), effective November 1, 2023. Since 2010, the role was held by Karen Kim, MD, Professor of Medicine, who left the University of Chicago in August 2023. We are grateful for Dr. Kim’s extraordinary and dedicated leadership of COE at the Cancer Center for more than 13 years.