Our 2023 STARS PRA and STARS Scholar programs are comprised of patient research advocates. The exchange of information increases familiarity and comfort with research, and the formation of new relationships inspires the participants to share their new knowledge with their respective patient support groups.
STARS 2023 SCHOLARS
STARS 2023 PATIENT RESEARCH ADVOCATES
- Aliye Bricker, United States — Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Sarah Christ, United States — Lung Cancer Research Program
- Seamus Cotter, Ireland — Irish Lung Cancer Community (ILCC)
- Tiffany Fagnani, United States — Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Leslie LaChance, United States
- Nabanita Mandal, India
- Jacquelyn Nixon, United States — Citizens Radioactive Radon Reduction (CR3)
- Stella O’Brien, United Kingdom — NHS England’s ATMP Working Group
- Korina Pateli-Bell, Greece — Fair Life Lung Cancer Care
- Angus Pratt, Canada — Canadian Cancer Society
- Andrea Redway, Canada — Canadian Cancer Survivors Network
- Mike Smith, United States — Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina
- Bärbel Söhlke, Germany — zielGENau e. V.
- Diane Van Keulen, Canada
- Wayne Yeung, United States — KRAS Kickers
- Laura Book, United States — EGFR Resisters Board
- Lisa Briggs, Australia — Lung Foundation Australia
- Anne Marie Cerato, Canada
- Diane Colton, Canada
- Terri Conneran, United States — KRAS Kickers
- Caleb Eqwuenu, Nigeria
- Tomma Hargraves, United States — UNC-Chapel Hill's Cancer Hospital
- Erika Hlavacek, United States — YEAHbestlife
- Lily Huang, New Zealand
- Kimberly Lester, United States
- Anita McGrath, Australia — Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia; Australasian Lung Cancer Trials Group
- Christine Qiong Wu, Canada
- Debera Violette, United States — Free ME from Lung Cancer Foundation
- Tom Wood, Australia — Lung Foundation Australia
- Andrew Ciupek, United States — GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer
- Ivy Elkins, United States — EGFR Resisters
- Melissa Crouse, United States — RET Renegades
- Merel Hennink, Netherlands — Longkanker Nederland
- Lillian Leigh, Australia — Cancer Australia
- Susan McCullough, Australia
- Susan McCullough, Australia
- Kimberly MacIntosh, Canada
- Caleb Egwuenu, Africa — Move Against Cancer Africa
- Shelly Engfer-Triebenbach, USA — ALKFusion
- Laura Greco, USA — ALKFusion
- Lillian Leigh, Australia
- Jill Hamer-Wilson, Canada
- Dusty Donaldson, USA — LiveLung & LungCAN
- Upal Basu Roy, USA — LUNGevity
- Jill Feldman, USA — EGFR Resisters