Olufunmilayo Olopade

"One of the things that our hospital is doing is engaging community health workers and engaging community participants to participate in what I call population risk and health management that no health system can afford to spend so much money waiting for patients to get sick, and then bring them into the hospital. We have got to be in the community. Im hoping that what we are going to be doing as part of our rollout in our comprehensive cancer center is to work with our hospital, to work with Brenda Battle. Brenda Battle is [now the senior vice president, Community Health Transformation, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at UChicago Medicine]. She is part of a specialized program of research excellence in breast cancer health disparities."

"To develop a personalized way to identify every woman at high risk, whether African-American or Jewish or Italian or Ukrainian, so that they could go in and have their doctor develop a personalized approach for them."

"These cancers may be more common among African-American women, but our discovery was really that there are genetic risk factors for breast cancer in all populations."

"By disseminating such information in front of the community of oncologists, we were given the opportunity to change practice"

"The hope for precision medicine is to have the right drug for the right person at the right time,"

"Right now, most women in the world are diagnosed with breast cancer at an advanced stage."

"Were going to assemble a group from totally different environments to see what might be the common thread."

"The more compelled I became to figure it out."

"We need to accelerate prevention that can be adopted in low-resource settings or adopted in this country as a way to help low-income women care for themselves."

"People in Africa have been understudied, and even African-Americans in this country have been understudied."

"Instead of waiting for the patients to be diagnosed with cancer, I am increasingly passionate about trying to prevent it."

"To kill them you have to use chemotherapy, which has all the side effects and may not always work."