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Project Nana
In the Community
Project Nana featured in Special Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center: 50 Years of Unwavering Care
October 8 , 2024
“This 30-minute special highlights past and present Massey leaders; showcases The Healing Space, a place of respite and healing for patients and their loved ones, faculty and staff; community-guided research and impactful patient stories." Watch here and see Project Nana & Vanessa Hill at 5:50.
Project Nana founder is an ‘Everyday Hero’ on WTKR
October 2 , 2024
“If you educate a nana, you educate a family, you educate a community,” Hill said during the Project Nana “Seasoned Women’s Health Summit” earlier this month.
Read more here.
Seasoned Women’s Health Summit in Norfolk to Address Uterine Cancer
on WAVY10
September 1 , 2024
Seasoned Women’s Health Summit Sep. 5-8 to Address Uterine Cancer; Gwen Ifill to Be Honored
on WAVY.com
September 1 , 2024
"Leading the charge to advocate for post menopausal women is Vanessa Hill.
“We want our seasoned women to be informed about having agency over their own bodies and to be able to advocate for their body,” said Hill. “We usually look at menopause as everything stops but your care shouldn’t stop!”
Hill explained to 10 On Your Side that previously health experts had anticipated that by 2040 endometrial cancer would overtake colorectal cancer as the third leading cancer in women. That projection has been revised recently." Read more here.
Nana in the News!
July 24, 2024
Congratulations to Iris Lundy, Sentara Vice President of Health Equity, on being named one of the top Hospital and Health System Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officers to Know by Becker's Healthcare! We are incredibly grateful to have Iris on the Project Nana team bringing her expertise and passion to our mission.
Throughout her life and career, Iris has served in the Gulf War, beat colon cancer, worked as a nurse, and is now a healthcare administrator supporting Sentara in pivotal moments like the Covid-19 pandemic, health screening events, and initiatives to improve health outcomes for women, racial minorities, immigrants and other marginalized groups. Read more here.
TEDxMellenStreet | Seasoned Women's Health Matters
with Vanessa Hil
November 18, 2023
Vanessa Hill on TEDx Mellen Street
Coming November 18, 2023
TEDxMellenStreet LIVE! Podcast
with Host and Curator Sacha Walton and Vanessa Hill
October 24, 2023
Project Nana to host 'Walk to End Breast & Gynecologic Cancers' in Norfolk on 13 News Now
September 8, 2023
'Walk to End Breast and Gynecologic Cancers' kicks off Sunday at Waterside on WTKR3
September 8, 2023
#MovetheMessage that Seasoned Women's Health Matters
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2023 Seasoned Women's Health Summit on WAVY 10 News
August 15, 2023
4th Annual Golfing for the Gals
Uterine Cancer Awareness UNC Lineberger
July 24, 2023
Vanessa Hill on Dr. P On the Pod
Aging, Women’s Health & Culture!
July 13, 2023
1st Uterine Cancer Awareness Month
IGCS Partner Organization
June 2023
Project Nana is an Official Partner with IGCS for Uterine Cancer Awareness Month
May 30, 2023
Vanessa Hill - Panelist at 4th Annual
She Dunks on Endometrial Cancer Symposium - Duke Cancer Institute
February 12, 2023
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