Durado Brooks, M.D., M.P.H., is director of prostate and colorectal cancer at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta. In his role at the American Cancer Society's National Home Office Dr. Brooks is involved in creating strategies to improve the prevention and early detection of cancer, and to assist those who are diagnosed with the disease. He is also actively engaged in ACS initiatives designed to eliminate disparities in cancer prevention, detection and outcomes.
Judy E. Garber, M.D., MPH, is Director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She is attending physician at Dana-Farber's Breast Oncology Center, an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Garber's research is focused on genetic susceptibility to breast, ovarian and other cancers, and the development of novel medical strategies to prevent cancer.
Victoria Hallerman is a poet and health advocate, and the author of the new book HOW WE SURVIVED PROSTATE CANCER: What We Did and What We Should Have Done. Her poetry was anthologized in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses. Her book of poems, The Aerialist, won the Bright Hill Prize. As a result of her husband's cancer, she became a member of Man to Man, the national prostate cancer support network, and co-founder of "What About Me?," a support group for partners of cancer patients and survivors. She and her husband, Dean, have been married since 1969. They live in New York City.
Carrie serves on the board of directors for the Caring
for Carcinoid Foundation based in Boston, Massachusetts
(www.caringforcarcinoid.org), which is the only not-for-profit foundation
dedicated to discovering a cure for carcinoid and related neuroendocrine
tumors.An accomplished public speaker, Host
addresses cancer patients and the medical community at CFCF and other
cancer-related fundraising events across the country.As a member of Rocky Mountain Team
Survivor-an organization of 400 that promotes health, education and fitness
programs for women affected by cancer- she stays involved with the local cancer
community in Boulder, Colorado.Carrie
and her husband, Amory, co-founded the Colorado Youth Program in 1995; a
nonprofit that connects under privileged children with nature and their community.
The program enriches over 150 children annually through a 10-day summer camp
and year-round programming. A third-generation Colorado native, she lives in
Boulder with her husband and their three children: Chanel (18), Marco (16) and
William (5).
Amy Kennedy is a Senior Certified Child Life Specialist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Child life Specialists work to minimize the stress and anxiety that many kids have when they have to stay in the hospital. A child's normal development can be affected when battling a serious illness. The work of the Child Life Specialists can assist children and teens with living as close to a normal life as possible. They do this by providing opportunities to gain a sense of mastery, play, learning, self-expression, family involvement and peer interaction. Kennedy, who joined the hospital in 1999, works with children and teens who are receiving radiation for brain tumors and other forms of cancer. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Child and Family development.
Robert Klesges, Ph.D., is a member of the St. Jude Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control faculty. His research focuses on cancer prevention and control in adults and children, particularly in high-risk populations, as well as health promotion in underserved populations such as women and minorities. Klesges' work also explores health issues such obesity treatment and weight gain prevention in children and adults and smoking cessation.
He is the principal investigator for the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite Studies (GEMs) and the Efficacy of a Tobacco Quit Line for Childhood Cancer Survivors, as well as co-director of the St. Jude Consortium for Interventional Research. Klesges' research has been published in numerous scientific journals and reports, including the Surgeon General Report of Smoking and Health, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Cancer and the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. A graduate of the University of Wyoming, Laramie, he joined St. Jude in 2006. Klesges also holds a professorship in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tenn.
Brian Monaghan, a fifty-nine-year-old lawyer at the top of his game, got the news that all of us dread. Stage IV melanoma had metastasized to his brain; he was given three to six months to live. That night Brian and his wife Gerri made a pact: We are going to love and laugh and fight this. And we are going to win. That was ten years ago.
Brian Monaghan and Gerri Monaghan are the authors of The Power of Two: Surviving Serious Illness with an Attitude and an Advocate.
It was 1976 when this 30 year old, a teacher and coach at his HS Alma mater, part-time bartender and die hard Eagles fan decided to act on a whim and a dare and entered the unprecedented public tryouts for his beloved Eagles. Inspired by this quote from his high school coach mentor, "Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make those dreams come true", he figured he had nothing to lose. Papale, a ten year season ticket holder and former track star who did not play a down of college football, not only paid the price and made the cut . . . he made history!
David S. Rosenthal, M.D., Past President of The American Cancer Society, is Director of Harvard University Health Services and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rosenthal also serves as a senior physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. He is the Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene at Harvard University.
A graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Rosenthal received his degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts in 1963. After an internship and residency with Tufts Medical Service, Boston City Hospital,Dr. Rosenthal was named senior assistant resident at Beth Israel Hospital.
Julie Silver, MD is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the co-founder of Oncology Rehab Partners, and an award-winning author whose latest book, What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope, was published by the American Cancer Society and has won two national awards.
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