Our

leadership

Our Board of Directors and staff work tirelessly to promote awareness of, and research equity for, metastatic breast cancer. Many of our board members are metastatic patients themselves, while others are dedicated advocates who stand side by side with us in the fight to reduce deaths from breast cancer.

Board of Directors

Kelly Shanahan, M.D.

Alpha Lillstrom Cheng

Jamil Rivers

Amy Beumer, PhD

Sharon Anderson

Director, Sea to Sea 4 MBC

Janice Cowden

Director, Peer to Peer

Kate Watson

Director at Large

Wang Shein

Director at Large

Executive Advisors

CJ “Dian” Corneliussen-James

Founder, Director Emeritus, Past President

Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Jill Bargonetti, PhD.

City University of New York (CUNY) at the Graduate Center and Hunter College; Weill Cornell Medical College

Dr. Stuart. S. Martin, PhD.

Associate Professor at the Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Dr. Danny R Welch, PhD.

Founding Director of the University of Kansas Medical Center’s (KUMC) Department of Cancer Biology. Director of the NFCR’s (National Foundation for Cancer Research) Metastasis Research Center. Professor and Chair, Adjunct faculty of Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology (KUMC).

Metavivor Staff

Crystal Moore, CAE

Executive Director

Xena Zupan

Program Manager

Madeline Gambino

Association Coordinator

Hava Avraham, Ph.D.

Scientific Review Officer

We thank our former board members for their service.

Barbara Bigelow

Former Board Member

Kay Campbell

Former Board Member, Deceased

Cecilia “Cece” Curry

Former Board Member, Deceased

Susan Davis

Former Board Member, Deceased

Nicole Beck Clifford

Former Board Member

Avis Halberstadt

Co-Founder of METAvivor, Deceased

Marlene King

Former Board Member, Deceased

Pamela King

Former Board Member, Deceased

Jane Levitt

Former Board Member, Deceased

Doris Ann Price

Former Board Member, Deceased

Lori Marx-Rubiner

Former Board Member, Deceased

Karen Presswood

Co-Founder of METAvivor, Deceased

Rhonda Rhodes

Co-Founder of METAvivor, Deceased

Pat Tomaselli

Former Board Member, Deceased

Monica Hill

Former Board Member, Deceased

Briana Sykes

Former Board Member, Deceased

Leslie Falduto

Former Board Member

Karin Petrocelli

Former Board Member, Deceased

Michael Kovarik

Former Board President, Deceased

Chawnte Randall

Former Board Member, Deceased

Beth Fairchild

Former Board President

Stephanie Walker

Former Board Member

Patrick Quinn

Former Board Member

Terlisa Sheppard

Former Board Member

Rhonda Howell

Former Board Member, Deceased

Barry Lenk

Former Board Member

Rich Leland

Former Board Member

Shonte Drakeford

Former Board Member

Sheila Godreau

Former Board Member

Adiba Barney

Former Board Member

Dan Cramer

Former Board Member