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AACE maintains 8 Standing Committees to manage its core and support activities:
Maintains oversight for all activities related to the Annual Meeting including the local arrangements, in collaboration with any organization partnered with the Association to host the meeting. Read more about this committee, its terms of reference, chair and members.
Chair: Julia White, MD (also President-Elect)
Co-Chair: Karen Patricia Williams, PhD (also Vice President Elect)
Chair, Local Arrangements: Ana Navarro, PhD
Manages the Association’s website and any other electronic information services.
Co-Chair: Frank D. Ferris, MD, FAAHPM (2012) (also President)
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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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Disclosure Statement: No relevant financial relationships to disclose |
Co-Chair: David Wiljer, PhD (2012) (also Treasurer)
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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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Disclosure Statement: No relevant financial relationships to disclose |
Oversees all official publications of the Association, including the Journal of Cancer Education.
Editor-in-Chief: Joseph F. O’Donnell, MD (2012)
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
Click to see the list of JCE Associate Editors and Members of the Editorial Board
Maintains a roster of all members of the Association, recruits new members, and considers all completed applications for membership.
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. |
Disclosure Statement: No relevant financial relationships to disclose |
Member, Mark B. Dignan, PhD, MPH (2010)
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Mark Dignan, PhD, MPH, is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the Prevention Research Center at the University of Kentucky. He received his PhD in Public Health Education from the University of Tennessee and an MPH in Biostatistics from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research has been focused on community-based cancer prevention and control for most of his career and has included projects that developed and evaluated mass media programs, lay health advisor and navigator interventions for patients and the public, and health care provider programs designed to increase screening and adherence to follow-up recommendations among medically underserved rural and minority populations. He has conducted research with several Native American populations, African-American communities, and rural medically underserved populations. Dr. Dignan’s current research focuses on cancer health disparities among Appalachian populations and includes projects on colorectal cancer screening and adherence with follow-up for cervical cancer. |
Disclosure Statement: No relevant financial relationships to disclose |
Member, Mark Hoffman, MD (2010)
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Biosketch Pending |
Disclosure Statement: Pending |
Member, Ginger Krawiec, MPA (2011)
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Virginia (Ginger) Krawiec, MPA, is a Director for the American Cancer Society Extramural Grants Department. She is responsible for seven American Cancer Society grant programs that support the clinical and/or research training of health professionals (nurses, physicians and social workers). These Health Professional Training Grants promote excellence in cancer prevention and control by providing incentive and support for highly qualified individuals in outstanding training programs or responsible for training.
Ms. Krawiec joined the Society’s National Home Office in 1987 in New York City and subsequently relocated with ACS to Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to taking her current position, she was the administrator of the Sleep-Neuroendocrine Research Unit, a Mental Health Clinical Research Center at New York State Psychiatric Institute. Ms. Krawiec is a graduate of La Salle University and Long Island University; holding a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in public administration. She is a New Jersey native, married to John Regan with whom she has one son, Brian. |
Disclosure Statement: No relevant financial relationships to disclose |
Member, Rose Marie Padberg, RN, MA (2012)
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Biosketch Pending |
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Member, Eric Vinson (2012)
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Biosketch Pending |
Disclosure Statement: No relevant financial relationships to disclose |
Includes the last five past Presidents. Advises the Executive Council, functions as the Nominating and Resolutions Committees, and nominates the Margaret Hay Edwards Award recipient.
Patricia B. Mullan, PhD (2010)
John Waterbor, MD, DrPh (2013)
Deborah O. Erwin, PhD (2012)
Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD, FACP, FAAHPM (2011)
Douglas D. Ross, MD, PhD (2010)
Initiates and receives proposed changes in the Bylaws from members; interprets the existing Bylaws. The Chair of the Bylaws Committee serves as the parliamentarian at the Annual Meeting and the meetings of the Executive Council.
Chair, Robert M. Chamberlain MA, PhD (2010)
Member, Richard E. Gallagher, PhD (2010)
Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD, FACP, FAAHPM (2011)
Manages all development, fundraising, liaison and Special Interest Group activities for the Association.
Chair, Gilad Amiel, MD (2012)
Member, Robert M. Chamberlain MA, PhD (2012)
Member, Amr Soliman, MD, PhD (2012)
Manages all communications and marketing for the Association, including outreach to other organizations interested in cancer education through our Liaisons.
Chair: Karen Patricia Williams, PhD (2011) (also Vice President)
Members: TBA
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