Task Group Charge
To promote awareness of lung cancer as a women’s health imperative towards increasing prevention, early detection, and utilization of evidence-based initiatives in this unique population.
Leadership
Leah Backhus, MD, MPH
Task Group Chair
Stanford University
M. Patricia Rivera, MD
Task Group Vice Chair
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Task Group Members
Shonta Chambers, MSW
Patient Advocate Foundation
Ching-Fei Chang, MD
University of Southern California
Louise Henderson, PhD, MSPH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Francine Jacobson, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Karen Kelly, MD
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Linda Martin, MD, MPH
University of Virginia
Jyoti Patel, MD
University of Chicago
Elridge Proctor, MPH
Go2 Foundation for Lung Cancer
Lori Sakoda, PhD, MPH
Kaiser Permanente
Joan Schiller, MD
Inova Schar Cancer Institute
Jill Siegfried, PhD
University of Minnesota
Juan Wisnivesky, MD, DrPH, MPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Andrea Wolf, MD, MPH
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Opportunities for Intervention/Influence:
- Promote knowledge that lung cancer is a women’s health imperative
- Promote knowledge that there is a disparate impact of lung cancer on women and in particular, on women who have never smoked
- Explore strategies to mitigate factors contributing to disparities across the continuum of prevention (potential opportunity to interact with other task groups) screening, treatment, and survivorship care for women with lung cancer
- Collaborate with NLCRT members to increase federal funding to support additional research strategies to explore the differences in women with respect to lung cancer risk factors, incidence, histology, prevention and response to treatment
- Identify opportunities for policy interventions addressing issues related to lung cancer in women