PAC³ Board of Directors and Representative Stakeholder Groups

Voting Board Member

Represents Stakeholder Group

Catherine M. Belt, RN, MSN, AOCN, CNA
Chapter Advisor, Oncology Nursing Society
Clinical Nurse, University of Pennsylvania

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Health Care Provider Organizations/Provider Advocacy Groups/Trade Associations

Aaron D. Bleznak, MD, FACS
State Chairman, ACoS Commission on Cancer General and Oncologic Surgeon, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown

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American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer

Larry E. Davis, PhD
Dean, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh Director, Center on Race and Social Problems

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Community Leaders – Cultural and Ethnic groups

Robert F. Durkin
President, Northeast Regional Cancer Institute, Scranton, PA

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Community Organizations/Health Care Consumers

Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD
President, Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh

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Foundations and Philanthropic Organizations

Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Highmark

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Health Insurance Industry

Dennis M. "Mickey" Flynn
President, Pennsylvania Bio

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Industry/Economic Development Partners (e.g. Pennsylvania LifeScience Greenhouses, Pharmaceutical, biotechnology industry, PA Chamber of Commerce

Ronald B. Herberman, MD
Director, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers

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Academic Cancer Centers (Defined as either NCI designated or university affiliated cancer centers)

Gary A. Leipheimer, MPH
Vice President,Cancer Control, American Cancer Society, Pennsylvania Division, Inc.

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American Cancer Society

Judith K. Maloney
Director of Health, City of Bethlehem

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Public Health via Government-sponsored organizations

Ronald E. Myers, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical
College, Thomas Jefferson University

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Researchers (e.g. Epidemiologists, Behavioral Medicine, Geneticists, Health Outcomes, Environmental)

James B. Ray, PharmD
Scientific Affairs Liaison, Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC

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Other Health Care Delivery Organizations (not Cancer Centers) (Examples: Hospitals, Hospice, Home Care, Nursing Homes)

Witold B. Rybka, MD
Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Penn State Cancer Institute

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Oncology Care Providers (multidisciplinary) (Examples: MD’s, RN’s, Pharmacists, MSW’s, Health Educators)

Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PhD
CEO and President Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA

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Community Cancer Centers

Col. (Ret) James E. Williams, Jr.
Co-Chairman Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Prostate Cancer Coalition

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Cancer Patient/Survivor Advocacy Groups

Kathryn Stadler

Executive Director, PAC³

Leslie A. Best

Emily Lowe, Esquire
Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C.