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