Opportunities for Enhancing Patient Navigation

Participants

Tracy Battaglia, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA

Mitchel S. Berger, MD, FACS, FAANS
Member
President’s Cancer Panel
Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Valerie D. Bouldin, MEd
Acting Director of Boards and Commissions
City of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Carol Brown, MD, FACOG, FACS
Member
President’s Cancer Panel
Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Elizabeth Calhoun, PhD, MEd
Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sturgis, MI

Heather Ciccarelli, MSW
Director, Patient Navigation Initiative
American Cancer Society
York, ME

Mary Cosper, LCSW-BACS, MPH
Patient Services Director
Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans/Cancer Association of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

Monica Dean
Director of Patient Navigation
Program Development
Academy of Oncology Nurse
& Patient Navigators
Dunwoody, GA

Andrea (Andi) Dwyer, MPH
Director, Colorado Cancer Screening Program
University of Colorado
Denver, CO

Bilikisu “Reni” Elewonibi, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Ricki Fairley, MBA
CEO and Co-Founder
TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance
Annapolis, MD

Samantha L. Finstad, PhD
Senior Health Science Policy Advisor
President’s Cancer Panel
Program Director, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH
Research Professor, Cancer Prevention & Control
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA

Paul Friedlander, MD
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Chief of Otolaryngology
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System
New Orleans, LA

Sharon Gentry, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN
Program Director
Academy of Oncology Nurse and Patient Navigators
Lewisville, NC

Darcie Green
Executive Director
Latinas Contra Cancer
San Jose, CA

Angela Hammett, MSN, RN
Director of Patient Navigation and Support Services
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Centers
Baton Rouge, LA

Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD
Chair
President’s Cancer Panel
Dana and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli Professor of Oncology
Deputy Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Cancers Program
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Maureen R. Johnson, PhD
Executive Secretary
President’s Cancer Panel
Special Assistant, Office of the Director
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Eugene Lengerich, DVM
Professor of Public Health Sciences and Family & Community Medicine
Penn State University
Associate Director for Health Disparities and Engagement and Director of the Office for Cancer Health Equity
Penn State Cancer Institute
Hershey, PA

Gina McWhirter, RN, MSN, MBA
Director, VA National TeleOncology
Department of Veterans Affairs
Blanchard, OK

Michelle Mollica, PhD, MPH,
RN, OCN
Deputy Director
Office of Cancer Survivorship
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Daniela Monterroza, MSPH
Health Communications Fellow
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Samyukta Mullangi, MD
Medical Director
Thyme Care
Nashville, TN

Kingsley I. Ndoh, MD, MPH
Founder and Chief Strategist
Hurone AI
Clinical Assistant Professor of Global Health
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Augusto Ochoa, MD
Deputy Director
LSU-LCMC Cancer Center
LSU Health New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Steven R. Patierno, PhD
Deputy Director
Duke Cancer Institute
Charles D. Watts Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

Phyllis Pettit Nassi, MSW
Associate Director, Office of Community Outreach & Engagement
Huntsman Cancer Institute
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Gabrielle Rocque, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor
Divisions of Hematology & Oncology and Gerontology, Geriatrics, & Palliative Care
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Elizabeth A. Rohan, PhD, MSW
Health Scientist
Division of Cancer Prevention
and Control
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Roswell, GA

Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway,
PhD, MA
Professor and Dr. Tim Hawks Chair in Cancer Prevention and Population Science
Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Stephanie Wheeler, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Michael S O’Malley Distinguished Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pittsboro, NC

Valarie Worthy, MSN, RN
Nurse Navigator
TOUCH, BBCA
Annapolis, MD