“We’re honored to have such dedicated and passionate advocates for most cancers sufferers be part of our Board,” stated Andrea Ferris, president and CEO of LUNGevity. “I am excited to see the actual impression we are able to have collectively for our neighborhood as we work to remodel lung most cancers.”
Bob Newman, chairman of ASM International, is likely one of the most revered executives within the venue business and has a confirmed observe report of constructing facility administration groups that serve the leisure, skilled and newbie sports activities, conferences, and exhibitions in each the private and non-private sectors. He has stewarded the corporate’s rise to the worldwide main supplier of revolutionary venue providers and stay experiences. Bob has a private household connection to most cancers that motivates his advocacy and philanthropy. He obtained his BS in advertising and marketing from the College of Connecticut and an MS in sport administration from the College of Massachusetts.
Terri Ann DiJulio is a three-time lung most cancers survivor, a stroke survivor, and a member of a multigenerational lung most cancers household. She has been a featured speaker at many conferences and occasions, has spoken on Capitol Hill, has been interviewed by the Wall Road Journal, amongst quite a few different publications, and is an energetic lung most cancers blogger. Terri Ann is on the LUNGevity Early Lung Most cancers Heart’s Exterior Advisory Board and spoke at its preliminary assembly. She actively promotes early detection by her talking occasions and media platforms and shares how her experiences have profoundly modified her perspective and gratitude for every single day.
Barry Nelson is a retired threat administration skilled who has discovered that means in his lung most cancers prognosis by passionate advocacy. He’s an skilled speaker at conferences, the place he attracts from his private journey as a most cancers survivor and medical trial participant. Barry is a committee member of the Companions in Scientific Analysis Convention and the Affected person Advisory Council at Kyruus Well being, and he co-creates tasks for Affected person-Centered Outcomes Analysis Initiatives (PCORI). He volunteers with Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute as a neighborhood ambassador and on a neighborhood stage in Boston to coach black males about lung most cancers. Barry obtained a BS in enterprise administration from Jap Nazarene School.
Frank Sierawski, normal director of Union Pacific Railroad, is a ten+ yr late-stage lung most cancers survivor who has been the beneficiary of biomarker testing and breakthrough applied sciences. Continued use of a focused remedy has saved him with no proof of illness since 2017. He attends the annual LUNGevity Scientific and Scientific Roundtable to characterize the affected person voice. Frank actively advocates for LUNGevity and the ALK+ lung most cancers neighborhood and calls on business, regulators, and fellow sufferers to problem the established order and discover what’s doable. He obtained a BSBA in accounting from Creighton College and an MBA from the College of Nebraska at Omaha.
About LUNGevity Basis
LUNGevity, the nation’s main lung most cancers group, is reworking what it means to be recognized and stay with lung most cancers. LUNGevity seeks to have a right away impression on high quality of life and survivorship for everybody touched by the illness—whereas selling well being fairness by addressing disparities all through the care continuum.
- By analysis, we use an revolutionary and holistic method to discovering lung most cancers earlier when it’s most treatable; advance analysis into new remedies so folks could stay longer and higher; and guarantee a various, very important pipeline of investigators for the way forward for the lung most cancers subject.
- By advocacy, we foster groundbreaking collaborations to make sure all folks have entry to screening, biomarker testing, and therapy breakthroughs.
- By neighborhood, we educate, assist, and join folks affected by lung most cancers in order that they will get the very best healthcare and stay longer and higher lives.
Complete sources embody a medically vetted and patient-centric web site, Affected person Gateways for particular forms of lung most cancers, a toll-free HELPLine for personalised assist, worldwide survivor conferences, and instruments to discover a medical trial. All these applications are designed to assist us obtain our imaginative and prescient—a world the place nobody dies of lung most cancers. LUNGevity Basis is proud to be a four-star Charity Navigator group.
Please go to www.LUNGevity.org to study extra.
About Lung Most cancers within the US
- About 1 in 16 People can be recognized with lung most cancers of their lifetime.
- Greater than 238,000 folks within the US can be recognized with lung most cancers this yr.
- About 60%-65% of all new lung most cancers diagnoses are amongst individuals who have by no means smoked or are former people who smoke.
- Lung most cancers causes extra deaths than the following two deadliest cancers (colorectal and pancreatic) mixed.
- Solely 25% of all folks recognized with lung most cancers will survive 5 years or extra, but when it is caught earlier than it spreads, the prospect of 5-year survival improves dramatically.
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