STARS Participants

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

Erminia Bossia Bell

Canada

Dave Bjork

United States

Bruce Dunbar

United States

Caleb Egwuenu

Nigeria

Michel Itel

Australia

Angus Pratt

Canada

Lorraine Tyler

Australia

Christine Wu

Canada

Wayne Yeung

United States

STARS 2023 PATIENT RESEARCH ADVOCATES

Chris Conneran

United States

Elizabeth Dols

United States

Laura Floyd

Canada

Deborah Friedman

United States

Larry Gershon

United States

Tiffini Joseph

United States

Tarunima Malik

India

Barbara Martin

United States

Oonagh McArdle

Ireland

Tim Monds

Canada

Aileen Murgatroyd

United Kingsom

Pierre Onda

United States

Deirdre Russo

United States

Oskar Torberger

Sweden

  • 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