Patient Advocate Committee

The Alliance Patient Advocate Committee has three specific aims: 1) to promote patient advocate participation as full members of Alliance disease and modality/discipline committees; 2) to communicate individually with constituent patient populations to maintain currency of input and validity of voice for the collective patient experience; and 3) to allow Alliance patient advocates to remain current on the science of cancer research.  

Committee Members

• 
  Patricia Spears, Chair
  Raleigh, NC
  Committees:
  Breast, Ethics & Prevention
• 
  Coleen Crespo, MIS, Vice-Chair
  Raleigh, NC
  Committee:
  Health Disparities
•  
  Mike Abrams
  Warwick, RI
  Committee:
  Lymphoma
•  
  Dena Battle
  Alexandria, VA
  Committee:
  Genitourinary (GU)

• 
  Vernal H. Branch
  Mooresville, NC
  Committee:
  Genitourinary (GU)

• 
  Deborah Collyar
  San Francisco, CA
  Committees:
  Ethics, Experimental
  Therapeutics & Publications

• 
  Ivis Febus-Sampayo
  New York, NY
  Committees:
  Breast & Health Disparities

• 
  Carmen Gillis
  Hudson, WI
  Committee:
  Neuro-Oncology

• 
  Eva May
  Cary, NC
  Program:
  Translational Research
• 
  Pamela Moffitt
  Galva, IA
  Committee:
  Respiratory
   
• 
  James Omel, MD
  Grand Island, NE
  Committees:
  Leukemia, Myeloma & Transplant 

• 
  Jane Perlmutter, PhD, MBA
  Ann Arbor, MI
  Committees:
  Breast, Health Outcomes, Leukemia & Symptom Intervention

• 
  Phyllis J. Pettit Nassi
  Salt Lake City, UT
  Committee:
  Health Disparities