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Hi, I'm Loraine Escobedo. I'm a PhD student at the University of Southern California in
Los Angeles. Um, this is my fourth year attending the NAACCR Conference and every year I'm more
and more impressed at how the NAACCR operates and how dedicated they are in maintaining
and making sure that cancer surveillance has high quality data. And I'd like to thank, um, NAACCR
for establishing, um, Student Recognition Awards to encourage participation of student
researchers like myself like the um, the poster awards and the, um, oral presentation awards
and the GIS Student Travel Award. And as a student researcher, I'm mostly here to learn
more about um, from the experts, especially um, you know, how to use cancer surveillance,
uh, how to use GIS um, in, how to, how to use GIS in cancer surveillance data in the
fields of epidemiology and cancer control/prevention. Um, and I highly, highly encourage, um, student
researchers to, instead of, aside from just crunching the data once the get it, to actually,
you know, learn more about how the data, the cancer surveillance data that they are using
are being collected and maintained. You know, and they can actually do this by, um, getting
more involved with NAACCR and, um, talking more to the wonderful folks who are here.
And they are very, very welcoming, um, with the students and I really appreciate that.
Thank you.