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Coalition Leadership

Patient Advisory Board

  • Deborah Collyar, Chair, Patient Advisory Board
    Chair, CALGB Patient Advocacy Committee
    President, (PAIR) Patient Advocates In Research
  • Cynthia Chauhan
    Co-Chair, NCCTG Patient Advocacy Committee
  • Laura Cleveland
    Co-Chair, CALGB Patient Advocacy Committee
  • Peggy Devine, CLS
    Co-Chair, ACRIN Patient Advocacy Committee
    Director, Cancer Information Support Network
  • Wayland Eppard
    Chair, NCCTG Patient Advocacy Committee
  • Anna Gottleib, MPA
    Chair, Southwest Oncology Patient Advocacy Committee
    Executive Director, Gilda’s Club Seattle
  • Bettye L. Green, RN
    Chair, ACOSOG Patient Advocacy Committee
  • Pat Halpin-Murphy
    Chair, NSABP Patient Advocacy Committee
    President and Founder, Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition
  • Michael S. Katz
    Chair, ECOG Patient Representative Committee
    Vice-President, International Myeloma Foundation
  • Marjorie (Missy) Layfield
    Chair, COG Patient Advocacy Committee
  • Barbara K. LeStage
    Chair, ACRIN Patient Advocacy Committee
    Chair, Directors Consumer Liaison Group
  • Pamela McAllister, PhD
    Chair, Colorectal Cancer Coalition (C-Three)
  • John Mussman, Esq.
    Co-Chair, Children’s Oncology Group (COG)
  • Mary Jackson Scroggins, MA
    Chair, Gynecologic Oncology Patient Advocacy Committee
    President and Co-founder, In My Sister’s Care
  • Mary Lou Smith
    Co-Chair, ECOG Patient Representative Committee
    Co-Chair, Research Advocacy Network