Christopher N. Cross, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As the inaugural Director of Global Health Equity Strategies, I advise and support the design and implementation of global equity, diversity, and inclusion strategies dedicated to advance health equity initiatives across the ASCO enterprise, encompassing its nearly 50,000 members world-wide, and external stakeholders. My role works to ensure that health equity is strategically integrated throughout ASCO’s mission of conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality equitable care and identify developing opportunities for ASCO’s sustained impact on health equity.

United States

Cross River Strategies, LLC is led by Dr. Diana Lu, President and Chief Scientific Officer. The Global Mission is to advance health equity worldwide using co-creation strategies with science and community engagement.Below are a few highlights:- In 2021, our clinical trial work in Georgia led to over 200 African Americans completing an FDA-approved colorectal cancer study. This was the second highest enrollment site out of 194 for Black people across the US. - In June 2022, we were selected as the national consultant by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) to enhance the pipeline of minority healthcare providers to community health centers. Through this work, we’ve engaged clinicians across the country including: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, DC, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and the US Army.- We completed two years of teaching and mentoring community research fellows in New Haven, CT about scientific mistrust and health inequities in partnership with the Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity within Yale Cancer Center

New Haven, Connecticut

Training community research fellows to explore patient experience insights for underrepresented participants in real-world clinical trials (real-world data, real-word evidence)

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Yale University-Mayo Clinic CERSI (Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation)Research Title: Reimagining real-world clinical trials to increase participation of African Americans for patients, sponsors, and regulators

Selected out of 70+ Advanced Degree Candidates to learn US Regulatory Policy for Orphan Drug Development and Global Regulatory Patient Engagement for Rare Diseases.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

During the 113th and 114th Congress, I served as a Congressional Science Fellow to U.S. House Representative on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (SS&T). I worked on the following topics: STEM education, climate change, manufacturing, as well as #BringBackOurGirls from Boko Haram campaign. I liaised with members of congress to successfully draft bi-partisan amendments which were passed and incorporated into legislation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I completed a Science Policy internship to investigate a range of technologies and how they have developed to current and emerging technologies. Taken these findings, I highlighted the misconceptions and misnomers to discuss with senior staff and fellows in effort to create briefings. I assisted in creating and delivering briefings to policymakers in order to equip them with information to pose important questions.

Atlanta, Ga

Trained in GLP 21 CFR Part 58 pre-clinical facility to conduct research and develop assays to test performance and validity of pharmaceuticals and biomedical devices in the fields of cardiology, orthopedics, and regenerative medicine

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oncology, Human Genomics

Activities and Societies: School of Public Health, Cancer Center, Yale Postdoc AssociationT32 Fellowship; Certificate: Cancer Biology.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human/Medical Genetics

Activities and Societies: Board of Trustees, PBS STEM Super Star Under 30, Yale-Howard Honor Society, Sigma Xi Honor Society, AAAS.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biomedical Engineering

Senior Project: Development of a laparoscopic cooling device for nephritic surgeries

Master Of Science - Ms, Neurobiology And Anatomy

Thesis: Sexual dimorphism in the levels of DNA repair proteins, OGG1 and NEIL1 and somatic instability in a Fragile X pre-mutation mouse.