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AACE is governed by an Executive Council that includes:
President: Frank D. Ferris, MD, FAAHPM
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Frank D. Ferris, MD is the Director, International Program at The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, a teaching affiliate of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He has appointments as Clinical Professor, Voluntary, in the Department of Family & Preventative Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA; and Assistant Professor, Adjunct, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Member, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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President-Elect: Julia White, MD
Vice President Elect: Karen Patricia Williams, PhD
Secretary: Shine Chang, PhD (2013)
Treasurer: David Wiljer, PhD (2013)
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Dr. David Wiljer is the Director of Knowledge Management and eHealth Innovation for Oncology Education and the Radiation Medicine Program at Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network. He is also an Assistant Professor and the Director of Continuing Education in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. David is the founding Chair of a national working group, the Canadian Committee for Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records (CCPAEHR), dedicated to involving patients in their EHR. With an expertise in knowledge exchange and impact assessment, he has led the research, development, implementation and assessment of complex informatics initiatives for cancer care. His work includes an online social networking software, Caring Voices, Lymph-Line, a research initiative funded by CBCRA to support Lymphedema patients, and Getting Results, a portal providing malignant hematology patients access to elements of their health record, the recipient of an inaugural Minister of Health innovation award for process redesign. David recently received the Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) Gold Star Award for his contribution in the field of informatics for patient education.
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Carolyn Messner, DSW, MSW (2010)
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Dr. Carolyn Messner is the Director of Education and Training at CancerCare. A licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Messner specializes and presents nationally and internationally on the psychosocial impact of cancer on patients, caregivers and families; methods to design educational interventions to ameliorate the distress of cancer; and cancer in the workplace. As a thought leader in psychosocial oncology, she pioneered the use of teleconference technology and podcasts to bring information and support to cancer patients, their families, friends, co-workers, employers and healthcare professionals nationally and globally. She directs CancerCare’s Connect Telephone Education Workshop Series Program, reaching over 150,000 patients and families annually. Dr. Messner is an adjunct instructor at the Hunter College School of Social Work. She is the recipient of: Distinguished Practitioner in Social Work Award and Individual Award for Creativity in Health Care Practice and Scholarship from National Academies of Practice; Leadership Award in Oncology Social Work from the Association of Oncology Social Work and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She is President of the Association of Oncology Social Work; on the Executive Council of the American Association of Cancer Education and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cancer Education. She holds a Doctorate in Social Welfare from the Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York (CUNY) and received the Doctoral Fellowship Award in Social Welfare from CUNY for her seminal research on innovation in oncology social work. |
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Amr Soliman, MD, PhD (2010)
Suzanne A. Gronemeyer, PhD (2011)
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After six years with Siemens Medical Systems as their first MR Applications Scientist, in 1988 Dr. Gronemeyer joined Diagnostic Imaging at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital http://www.stjude.org/. In 1997, she became Director of the NCI-funded Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) Program at St. Jude. She moved to the Academic Programs Office as Associate Director in 2000. In 2002, she obtained a CURE supplement to the St. Jude NCI Cancer Center Support Grant to enable additional outstanding under-represented minority students to participate in the POE program. Dr. Gronemeyer also holds an award from the American Heart Association to support additional POE students doing research in areas related to the mission of the AHA. She is scientific program chair for the Memphis BioImaging Symposium and serves on the board of the Intercultural Cancer Council. In 2009, the American Association for Cancer Education honored Dr. Gronemeyer with the Margaret Hay Edwards Achievement Medal For Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Education.
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Gilad Amiel, MD (2011)
Levi Ross, PhD, CHES (2012)
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Patricia B. Mullan, PhD (2010)
Jakob de Vries, MD, PhD, The Netherlands
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Jakob was born in 1954 in Morra Lioessens, The Netherlands, and graduated in Medicine 1978. He was a Research Fellow in pathology and experimental surgery until 1980 when he started his residency in general surgery at the Groningen University Hospital.
In 1984 he obtained his PhD with a thesis on Bone marrow embolism and cryosurgery. After registration as a general surgeon in 1986 he received additional training through a 2 year fellowship in surgical oncology, mainly based at the Groningen University Hospital and partly in the USA (UCLA and Memorial Sloan Kettering). From 1988 to 1995 he practiced general surgery with a focus on surgical oncology in a district hospital in Sneek.
In 1995 he returned to academic medicine as a Senior Staff Member of the department of surgical oncology in the Groningen University Hospital with a main interest in breast cancer, endocrine surgery and was appointed as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University Groningen with an interest in medical education. He introduced sentinel node biopsy in 1996 and laparoscopic adrenalectomy in 1997. He has published and co authored over 60 papers mainly on breast cancer staging and cancer education.
He is the President of EACE (European Association for Cancer Education) Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Cancer Education and Chairman of the International Summer School Oncology for Medical Students which is held every year, alternating in Groningen and in Vienna, Austria.
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Lenora Johnson, DrPH, MPH, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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Lenora Johnson is the Director of the Office of Communications and Education (OCE) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). OCE supports NCI's ability to develop and provide accurate, scientifically-based cancer information to patients, the public, health professionals, and other stakeholders across multiple media (i.e., Internet, telephone, print, video, etc.), and to create, implement, and evaluate evidence-driven cancer control and cancer care programs addressing the entire cancer continuum, and develop programs and tools to ensure the adoption of research discoveries in contexts where they might serve to minimize the impact of cancer.
Lenora joined NCI in early 2002. For close to 30 years she directed initiatives focusing on minority health, reducing health disparities, global surveillance of health risk behaviors, broadening states’ capacity for social marketing, and capacity building for health promotion and public health education programming. She has extensive experience in working at the national and local levels translating health information into materials, messages, and interventions that reach the most vulnerable populations. Her programs have been implemented through the Lombardi Cancer Center in Washington, DC; the Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education; the American Public Health Association, the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, and numerous partnership efforts with community-based organizations serving diverse constituents. |
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