The Patient Advocate Foundation is comprised of a network of research and community oncologists, attorneys, legislators, healthcare industry representatives, and case managers committed to the goal of offering support to cancer patients.
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Chief Executive Officer & President
Executive Board
Board President & Member, Finance Committee
Executive Director, Association of Community Cancer Centers
Rockville, MD
Board Secretary
Nursing Director, University Health Services
University of Texas at Austin
Chairman, Finance Committee
Saguenay Capital, LLC
Purchase, NY
Immediate Past President
Essex Richards, PA
Charlotte, NC
www.essexrichards.com
Hematology-Oncology Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Vice President of Grant Programs, Williamsburg Community Health Foundation
Williamsburg, VA
Director, Human Cell Therapy Laboratory
Divisions of Transfusion Medicine & Hematology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Chief Executive Officer (Retired)
Oncology Nursing Society (Retired)
Pittsburgh, PA
Vice President of their Preventive Health Partnership
American Cancer Society (ACS), American Diabetes Association (ADA), and American Heart Association (AHA)
Atlanta, GA
President
HSA Consulting Services
Former Presidential Health Policy Advisor to the White House
Silver Spring, MD
Founder, CEO
Dia de la Mujer Latina, Inc.
Manvel, TX
President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer
HCA, Inc. (Hospital Corporation of America)
Nashville, TN
Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs
UnitedHealth Group
Minnetonka, MN
Director, Center for Research on Minority Health (CRMH)
Center of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach and Research on Disparities in Health and Training (EXPORT)
Health Disparities Education, Awareness, Research & Training (HDEART) Consortium
Department of Health Disparities Research
The University of Texas
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Associate Administrator for HIV/AIDS
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, MD
Clinical Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
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Scientific Board
Chairman, Scientific Board
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas>br />Houston, TX
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Professor of Associate Professor of Medicine/Hematology
Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
University of Washington
Professor of Medicine
University of Washington
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
Director, Cellular Therapeutics
Rocky Mountain Blood & Marrow Transplant Program
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
Denver, CO
Professor of Surgery and Oncology and Dermatology
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD
GI Medical Oncology (Professor of Medicine)
Northwestern University – Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Medical Director
Helen F. Graham Cancer Center
Newark, DE
Honorary Board
Delegate, Virginia House of Delegates (Retired)
Hampton, VA
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President
Non-voting member
Newport News, VA
CEO
Oncology Nursing Society
Former Director of International Affairs
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Alexandria, VA
Mother of Cheryl Grimmel
Monmouth, ME
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer
US Oncology
Houston, TX
Missouri Senate
Jefferson City, MO
Richard D. Carter PLLC
Alexandria, VA
Weinhaus & Potashnick
Creve Coeur, MO
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