Board Leadership—ICAN’s Boards and Councils

Board of Trustees

  • Sherry Weinstein, Chair
  • Marcia K. Horn, JD, President and CEO
  • Cathy Dalzell, Chair, ICAN Leadership Council
  • Carey Gregory, Recording Secretary and Chair, Board Governance
  • Cheryl J. Hintzen-Gaines, Honorary Chair, Board of Trustees
  • Scott M. Kahn, PhD, Advisor
  • Sidney M. Rosen, Esq., Founding Chairman Emeritus

Texas Board of Advisors

  • Chuck Clayton, Chairman

Advisors to Boards and Councils

  • Linda Boatwright
  • Scott Kent Knauer

Honorary International Chairman

  • Marc Mondavi

International Corporate Council

  • Robert T. Hanlon, PhD, Honorary Co-Chair

Founding Chairman Emeritus

  • Sidney M. Rosen, Esq.

Founding Trustees

  • Nancy Williams Bonnett, Esq.
  • William F. Buck, IV**
  • I. Douglas Dunipace, Esq.
  • Kim J. Giese, CPA
  • Carol Ginsberg
  • Gary Peter Klahr, J.D.**
  • Fred** and Gertrude Rosen**
  • Steve Shluker
  • William J. Timmons
  • Earl E. Weeks, Esq.**
  • Floyd Williams, Jr.**

** Of Cherished Memory

Honorary Trustees

  • Cheryl J. Hintzen-Gaines, Chair
  • Ellen Goldstandt
  • Marlene and Eugene Shapiro
  • Suzie and Johnny Williams

Trustees Emeriti

  • Don W. DeMichele, PhD**
  • John Blasko
  • Carolyn Sechler, CPA

Chairmen Emeriti

  • Sidney M. Rosen, Esq.
  • Jewell McFarland Lewis, PhD**
  • Jay G. Alderson, Jr.  

Chair, Drug Development Council

ICAN Leadership Council

  • Cathy Dalzell, Chair
  • Annie Achee
  • Mitchell D. Achee, MD
  • Raymond C. Adler, III
  • Ronni Anderson
  • Richard G, Anderson
  • Heather Anton
  • Valerie August
  • Shari Baker
  • Michael Beacham
  • Kim Beller
  • Linda Bergthold
  • Timothy Blake
  • Martell and Katina Bland
  • Andrew J. Brown, Jr., Chairman, Diversity Issues, Underserved Patient Populations and Clinical Trials Enrollment
  • Rene Boze  
  • Diana Cameron
  • Chuck Clayton, Chair, Texas Board of Advisors
  • Paul Engler
  • Susan Fielder
  • Bob Fisher
  • Mary Lou Hamilton
  • Jeff Haymes
  • Ada and Ronald Jacobowitz, PhD
  • Allison Johnson
  • Wendy Look
  • Amy Magaziner
  • Rob Maver
  • Robert Masyczek, Past Chairman, Northern California Golf Invitational
  • Akiko Mitsui
  • Renate Mousseux
  • Jeff Nelson
  • Margery Nelson
  • Linda Propper
  • Lisa Rinaldi-Palestrini
  • Frank Ramirez
  • Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
  • Barbara Reimer, Robert W. Reimer Biomarkers Center Project at ICAN
  • Barbara Rigdon, Immediate Past Co-Chair, Northern California Golf Invitational and Wine Fundraisers
  • Shirley Rodriguez
  • Nikki Serafin
  • Patricia Sklar, Inaugural Chair, Northern California Golf Invitational
  • Patrick Strong
  • Paul Thompson
  • Kim Emerson Thorsteinson and Tim Thorsteinson
  • Mary Kay Turner
  • Jen Tyson
  • Johnny and Suzie Williams, Honorary Trustees
  • Jeff Veness, Immediate Past Chairman, Northern California Golf Invitational
  • John Youngberg

Exon 20 Group Board of Advisors

  • Robert T. Hanlon, PhD, Chair
  • Michael G. Beacham
  • Rick and Lisa Cote
  • Colleen Terrell
  • Denise Hanlon
  • Martha Hanlon
  • Tom Hanlon
  • Margaret and Rich Ingraham
  • Christy Roberson
  • Peg Schick
  • Tracy Stauffer
  • Colleen Zogby, RN

ICAN Ambassadors for International Patient Services

  • Popo Danes (Indonesia)
  • Fernando Ferrer, Chairman, Hispanic and Ibero-American Communities Council
  • Bruria Harel (Israel)
  • Nathan Nagel (UK)
  • Anak Agung Gede Rai (Indonesia)
  • Barbara Reimer (Canada)
  • Rui Wang, MD (China)

Drug Development Council

  • Steven J. Potts, PhD, MBA, Chairman

Biomarkers Council

  • Scott M. Kahn, PhD, Chairman
  • Eric J. Thompson, PhD, Vice Chairman; Director, Molecular Profiling
  • Roger D. Klein, MD, JD, Vice Chairman, Senior Advisor, Molecular Pathology, Legal Issues
  • Viktor Adalsteinsson, PhD, Senior Advisor, Sequencing and Circulating Tumor Cells
  • Carl Barrett, PhD, Senior Advisor, Oncology
  • Shelly Blam, PhD, Senior Advisor, Cancer Biology
  • Chirantan Bose, PhD, Senior Advisor, Tumor Profiling
  • Neil Butters, PhD, Director, Biomarkers Literature Collation
  • Anton Buzdin, PhD, Senior Advisor, Genomics and Cellular Networks
  • Olli Carpen, MD, PhD, Senior Advisor, Pathology and Diagnostics
  • Berwyn Clarke, PhD, Senior Scientific Advisor, Genomics and Biomarkers
  • Barbara Clendenen, BSc, MSc, Senior Advisor, Institutional Review Board Issues
  • Margery Connelly, PhD, MBA, Senior Advisor, Biochemical Biomarkers
  • Dmitry N. Derkach MD, PhD, Senior Advisor, Genomic Screening
  • Charles DiComo, PhD, Senior Advisor, Prostate Cancer
  • Fernando Ferrer, MBA, International Pharmaceutical Outreach and Special Advisor, ICAN-Latin America Patient Engagement Issues
  • Maria Fe Paz, MD, Senior Advisor, Molecular Diagnostics
  • Jessica Geahlen, PhD, Senior Advisor, Genomics and Gastrointestinal Cancer Issues
  • Laura Housman, MPH, MBA, Senior Advisor, Regulatory Issues
  • Jason (Gang) Jin, PhD, Senior Scientific Advisor, Genomics and Biomarkers
  • Minji Jo, PhD, Senior Advisor, Patient Advocacy
  • Ronald Jubin, PhD, Senior Scientific Advisor, Immunology and Cancer Virology
  • Boaz Kurtis, MD, Senior Advisor, Cancer Diagnostics
  • Zhongwu Lai, PhD, Senior Advisor, Targeted Therapies and Biomarkers
  • Han Liang, PhD, Senior Advisor, Personalized Medicine
  • Raja Luthra, PhD, Senior Advisor, Molecular Diagnostics
  • Kamala Kalyani Maddali, DVM, PhD, Senior Advisor, Molecular Diagnostics
  • Nupur Mehrotra, MBBS, PGD, Senior Advisor, Drug Development
  • Joshua Miller, PhD, Senior Advisor, Lung Cancer
  • LaVerne Mooney, DrPH, Senior Advisor, Epidemiology and Publications
  • Sethu Narayanan, PhD, Senior Advisor, Rare Malignancies
  • Stephen Naylor, PhD, Senior Advisor, Personalized Medicine
  • Takashi Niwa, MD, Senior Advisor, Lung Cancer, Japan
  • Oscar Puig, PhD, Senior Scientific Advisor, Translational Clinical Research 
  • Richa Rajwanshi, MD, Senior Advisor, Patient Safety
  • Vivek Rajwanshi, PhD, Senior Advisor, Medicinal Chemistry
  • David Richardson, BSE, PSM, Senior Advisor, Molecular profiling
  • Mathias Schulz, MD, MBA, Senior Advisor, Hematology
  • David Shames, PhD, Senior Advisor, Novel Therapeutics
  • Yu Shi, PhD, Senior Advisor, Tumor Microenvironment
  • Eve Shinbrot, PhD, Senior Advisor, Molecular Diagnostics
  • Linda Strause, PhD, Director, Biotechnology
  • Mike Thompson, MD, PhD, Senior Advisor, Rare Malignancies
  • Chip Van Sant, PhD, Senior Advisor, Predictive Biomarkers
  • Nic Waddell, PhD, Senior Advisor, Precision Analytics
  • Lei Wang, PhD, Senior Advisor, ImmunoOncology
  • Hans Winkler, PhD, Senior Advisor, Oncology Biomarkers
  • Shannon Winski, PhD, Senior Advisor, Translational Medicine

Surgical Oncology Council

  • Björn Brücher, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS, Chairman
  • Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, Surgical Oncology
operating room surgeons
Björn Brücher, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS

Medical Oncology Council

  • John S. Link, MD, Breast Oncology
  • Wishwdeep Dhillon, MD, Medical Oncology
  • Michael S. Gordon, MD, Medical Oncology
  • Shumei Kato, MD, Medical Oncology
  • Razelle Kurzrock, MD, Medical Oncology
  • Han-Ting Lin, MD, Medical Oncology, Special Advisor, Asia
  • Robert A. Nagourney, MD, Medical Oncology
  • Sandip Patel, MD, Medical Oncology
  • Shiva Singhal, MD, Medical Oncology

Radiology Council

  • Mitchell Achee, MD, and Greg Goldstein, MD, Co-Chairmen
  • Gulab Shah, MD
  • John Simon, MD

Interventional Radiology Council

  • Charlie O. Nutting, DO, Chairman
  • Fabio Komlos, MD, Interventional Radiology

Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics Council

  • Anthony M. Magliocco, MD, Chairman
  • Arthur Sitelman, MD, Special Advisor, Anatomic Pathology Issues
  • E. Robert Wassman, MD, FAAP, FACMG, Senior Advisor, Genomics
  • Qingmei Xie, MD, Special Advisor, Hematopathology and Laboratory Medicine

Special Advisors to the ICAN Professional Councils

  • Joseph Brenner, MD, Special Advisor, Novel Therapies, Israel
  • Maryam Hasan, MD, Internal Medicine  
  • Shaheen Lakhan, MD, PhD, Neurology
  • Edward J. Perrin, MD, Geriatric Issues
  • Amanda Quarshie, MD, Special Advisor, Africa
  • Daniel Remen, MD, Special Advisor, Pain Management and Rehabilitative Medicine
  • Svetlana R. Rubakovic, MD, FACP, Special Advisor, Melanoma
  • Daniel Rubin, ND, Complementary and Alternative Medicine/Integrative Oncology
  • Valerie Sorkin-Wells, MD, Gynecology

Attorneys' Council

  • Mark H. Kolman, Esq., Chairman
  • Kirk T. Hartley, Esq., Co-Chairman

Hispanic and Ibero-American Communities Council

  • Fernando Ferrer, Chairman

ICAN Golf Invitational Tournament Committee

  • Wendy Look and Cathy Dalzell, Tournament Chairs
  • Linda Propper, Auction Chair
  • Len Landsbaum, Sponsorships Committee
  • Rob Maver, Advisor and Past Tournament Chair
  • Gene Shapiro, Advisor and Past Tournament Chair
  • Steven Sykes, Immediate Past Chair and Advisor
  • Bonnie O’Day, RN, Registration Chair
  • Robert McClellan, Raffle and Welcome CommitteeChair
  • Tracy Hail, Grayhawk Golf Club, Tournament Operations
  • Joan Golden, Auction Interface and Collateral Materials
  • Brenda J. Berliner, Special Projects
  • Marilyn Larson, Registration Committee
  • Colleen DiSanto, Registration Committee
  • Scott Biller, Auction Committee
  • Jeff Haymes, Photography
  • Lisa Rinaldi-Palestrini, Favors Committee

Chairs, ICAN Golf Tournament

  • Wendy Look and Cathy Dalzell, 2019-present
  • Wendy Look, Cathy Dalzell, and Michael Friedman, 2018
  • Steven Sykes, 2016-2017
  • Jason Gard, 2014-2015
  • Gail M. Curry, 2013
  • Rob Maver and Robert Schlosser, 2012
  • Eugene B. Shapiro, 2011
  • Jim Grant, 2010

Speakers’ Bureau

  • Cynthia Adam
  • Shari Baker
  • Shelley Blam, PhD
  • Katina Bland
  • Andrew J. Brown, Jr.
  • Diana Cameron
  • Maeve Carr
  • Chuck Clayton
  • Fernando Ferrer
  • Robert T. Hanlon, PhD
  • Kristen Leniz
  • Katie McLaughlin
  • Lisa Rinaldi Palestrini
  • Sidney M. Rosen, Esq.
  • Caren Suesserman

Photography

  • Sherry Weinstein

Independent Certified Public Accountants and Bookkeeping Services

  • Duane Eckelberg, CPA, Eckelberg & Weinshienk PC
  • Carolyn Sechler, CPA, Sechler CPA PLC, Special Advisor  
  • Brigitte Serrano, Buy the Hour Bookkeeping

Virtual Office/Foundation Advisor

  • Carolyn S. Sechler, CPA, Sechler CPA PLC (virtual office and technology issues)

Leadership Development, Strategic Planning Resources, and ICAN Mentoring Program Advisors

If you would like to get involved with ICAN, please contact  marcia@askican.org and we will match your interests to our numerous initiatives.  Thank you!


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