Board of Directors

Willa Shalit

Willa Shalit

Chair, Co-Founder, Digital Director

Allyson J. Ocean

Allyson J. Ocean, M.D.

Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Co-Founder

Cindy Gavin

Cindy Price Gavin

Founding Executive Director

David Glauber

David Glauber

Vice Chair, Children's Media Producer

Board of Directors member Mike Greenstein

Mike Greenstein

Treasurer, retired PwC Partner, Business and Financial Executive

Elvin Howard, Jr.

Elvin Howard, Jr.

Baton Rouge Police Officer and President, Elvin Howard Sr. Pancreatic Cancer Advocacy Foundation

Kerri Kaplan

Kerri Kaplan

Co-Founder, President of the Lustgarten Foundation

Juan Pellerano-Rendon

Juan Pellerano-Rendon

Account Director, Laundry Service

Board of Directors member Dave Price

David Price

Broadcast Journalist

Dean C. Xerras, M.D.

Dean C. Xerras, M.D.

Medical Director, MGH Chelsea Healthcare Center

Scientific Advisory Board

Allyson J. Ocean, M.D., Chair

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York

Lewis Cantley, Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts


John A. Chabot, M.D., F.A.C.S.

NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York


Susan M. Domchek, M.D.

Basser Center for BRCA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



Ron Evans, Ph.D.

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California

Talia Golan, M.D.

Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel



Manuel Hidalgo, M.D., Ph.D.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York

Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York



William Isacoff, M.D.

UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California


Elizabeth Jaffee, M.D.

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland


Anirban Maitra, M.B.B.S.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Eileen M. O’Reilly, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York




Michael Pishvaian, M.D., Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Kim A. Reiss, M.D.

Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Felice Schnoll-Sussman, M.D.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York


Rachna T. Shroff, M.D., M.S.

University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tuscon, Arizona



Diane M. Simeone, M.D.

Pancreatic Cancer Center, Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York

Jose G. Trevino, II, M.D., F.A.C.S.

VCU Massey Cancer Center, Richmond, Virginia



David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York

Bert Vogelstein, M.D.

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland



Robert H. Vonderheide, M.D., D.Phil.

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Raymond C. Wadlow, M.D.

Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Fairfax, Virginia


Brian M. Wolpin, M.D., M.P.H.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

Advisory Committee

Jane Randel, Chair

Co-President of Karp Randel LLC


Gil Bashe

Chair, Global Health and Purpose


Faith Daniels

American television news anchor, reporter, talk show host, and media consultant



Mary Fisher

American artist, activist, and author

Jennie Fortunoff

President of Esterow Events & Consulting, Inc.



Millicent Fortunoff

President of M Fortunoff Communications

Robert Friedman

Businessman and Entrepreneur



Betty Hudson

President of Hudson & Associates


Barbara J. Kenner, Ph.D.

Founder, Kenner Family Research Fund


Danica Kombol

Social Media Marketing Executive

William L. McComb

Former Chief Executive Officer at Fifth & Pacific Companies, Inc.

Our Team

Cindy Price Gavin

Founding Executive Director

Susan Randel

Program Director


Lisa Frame

Social Media Manager