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From Breast Cancer Patient to Breast Cancer Board Member

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Laura Yeager

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Dr. Alan Tan is the GU Oncology Lead at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as an associate professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and GU Executive Officer with the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.
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Dr. David A. Braun, an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Oncology, and a Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman Yale Scholar, at the Yale School of Medicine, as well as a member of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Yale Cancer Center, in New Haven, Connecticut
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Dr. Anna Arthur is the Director of the Medical Nutrition Science Program, as well as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Dr. Ritu Salani, the Director of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), UCLA Health, and a board-certified gynecologic oncologist.
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