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Debra Birnbaum, world head of awards for Amazon Studios MGM, has joined the board of administrators of New York-based Ovarian Most cancers Analysis Alliance, the world’s largest group devoted to analysis into ovarian and associated gynecologic cancers and assist for sufferers.
“We’re deeply honored to welcome Debra Birnbaum to our Board of Administrators,” mentioned Audra Moran, CEO of OCRA. “Her strategic imaginative and prescient, mixed together with her private dedication to our trigger, shall be invaluable as we proceed to try in direction of our mission of eradicating ovarian and associated cancers. Debra’s insights and dedication will undoubtedly improve our efforts to extend consciousness and assist for analysis and to supply inspiration and hope to sufferers and their households.”
Birnbaum has a private connection to the trigger. She was recognized with ovarian most cancers at age 17 and had a recurrence at age 20.
“I first acquired concerned with Ovarian Most cancers Analysis Alliance due to my perception within the significance of early detection and analysis into all gynecologic cancers,” Birnbaum mentioned. “I’m honored to affix the Board of Administrators right now to proceed to honor that dedication. Girls of all ages, their households, and their healthcare suppliers should be higher educated in regards to the signs of most cancers, and we have to fund extra analysis into remedies and cures.”
Birnbaum joined what was then Amazon Studios in late 2018. Earlier than that she spent 5 years as Selection‘s govt editor of tv. She was additionally president and editor in chief of TV Information for seven years, and he or she labored as a author and editor for Us Weekly and the New York Put up.
