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Board of Directors
Chair of the V Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee; Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs and Senior Vice President and Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Professor and Head, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington; Raisbeck Endowed Chair for Collaborative Cancer Research
Nancy E. Davidson, M.D.
Board Chair, The V Foundation for Cancer Research
Evan Goldberg
Director of Translational Research Career Development; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Robert C. Bast Jr., M.D.
Co-Head of Baseball
Jeff Berry
College Basketball Analyst
Jay Bilas
Retired Executive Chairman
George Bodenheimer
Retired President and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Bornstein
Retired Senior Partner
Tom Cabaniss
President and CEO
Julie Chase
Singer, Songwriter, Entrepreneur, Author
Ciara
Retired Senior Partner
George W. Dennis III
President, Advertising Sales
Rita Ferro
President & Chief Operating Officer
Matt Hong
Chair Elect of the V Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee; Executive Director, Duke Cancer Institute; William and Jane Shingleton Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; Professor of Pediatrics
Michael Kastan, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Mark King
Retired EVP
Clark Kinlin
Retired Head Coach, Men’s Basketball
Mike W. Krzyzewski
Fortune 100 CEO • Board Member • Global Business Executive & Advisor
Carl C. Liebert
Retired President and Vice Chairman
Joe Loughrey
Retired Executive Chairman of the Board
Michael C. MacDonald
Clinical Professor
Nancy Major, MD
Founder & General Partner
Julie Maples
CEO/Executive Producer
Geoffrey S. Mason
Executive Vice President | Chief Brand Officer
Marc Mentry
Retired Medical Director, Duke Raleigh Hospital; Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
Joseph O. Moore, M.D.
Retired Chief Executive Officer
Robert C. Nakasone
Immediate Past Chair of the V Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee; Marion I. Knott Professor of Oncology and Director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
William G. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder & CEO, Orender Unlimited & Generation W; Former President, The Women's National Basketball Association
Donna Orender
Chairman, ESPN
James Pitaro
Founder, Executive Chairman and Brand Chief
Kevin Plank
Former Major League Baseball Player
Buster Posey
Former Chairman of the Board, Electronic Arts
Lawrence F. Probst III
Co-Founder
Harry E. Rhoads, Jr.
Retired Managing Partner, Board Member
Constance Skidmore
SportsCenter Anchor
Sage Steele
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Stuart A. Taylor II
Transformational Global Leader
John Thiel
College Basketball Analyst
Robert Valvano
President Emeritus and former V Foundation CEO
Nicholas P. Valvano
Chairwoman
Pamela Valvano Strasser
Sports Commentator
Dick Vitale
Associate Athletic Director for Community Relations and Student Support
Dereck Whittenburg
Retired Senior Vice President
David W. Williams
Executive Vice President, Production
Norby Williamson
NFL Quarterback, Entrepreneur, Community Leader
Russell Wilson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Larry Woodard
NY Times Bestselling Author
Don Yaeger
Scientific Advisory Committee
Chair of the V Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee; Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs and Senior Vice President and Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Professor and Head, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington; Raisbeck Endowed Chair for Collaborative Cancer Research
Nancy E. Davidson, M.D.
Director, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center; Associate Dean of Oncology Programs, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D.
Director of Translational Research Career Development; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Robert C. Bast Jr., M.D.
Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center Program, Scientific Director, Termeer Center for Targeted Therapy, and Mark J. Kusek Endowed Chair in Colorectal Cancer, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Ryan Corcoran, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research; Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, UNC School of Medicine
H. Shelton “Shelley” Earp, M.D.
Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Genetics; Director of the Stanford Cancer Genetics Clinic and the Stanford Clinical Cancer Genomics Program
James M. Ford, M.D.
Professor, Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center; Faculty Senator, Baylor College of Medicine
Susan G. Hilsenbeck, Ph.D.
Professor and Chief Attending, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Yelena Y Janjigian, M.D.
Chair Elect of the V Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee; Executive Director, Duke Cancer Institute; William and Jane Shingleton Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; Professor of Pediatrics
Michael Kastan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington; Associate Director, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute; Aldarra Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Solid Tumor Research, UW School of Medicine
Elizabeth R. Lawlor, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan
Theodore S. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Atrium Health Levine Cancer; Executive Director, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center; Senior Vice President, Atrium Health; Vice Dean for Cancer Programs, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, The Charles L. Spurr MD Professor of Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Ruben A. Mesa, M.D., FACP
Director, Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research; Professor, Internal Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John D. Minna, M.D.
Retired Medical Director, Duke Raleigh Hospital; Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
Joseph O. Moore, M.D.
Immediate Past Chair of the V Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee; Marion I. Knott Professor of Oncology and Director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
William G. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center; Dean for Oncology in the Biological Sciences Division, and the Abbvie Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago
Kunle Odunsi, M.D., Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and Science; Supplemental Consultant in Research, Mayo Clinic Division of Experimental Neurology; Program Director/Principal Investigator, NCI T32 Training Grant in Brain Cancer Research, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (Rochester MN)
Brian Patrick O’Neill, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
David Piwnica-Worms, M.D., Ph.D.
Senator A.M. Aikin Jr. Distinguished Chair and Professor of Experimental Radiation Oncology; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Helen Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Oncology, McMaster University; Director, Escarpment Cancer Research Institute; Associate Director, Ontario Clinical Oncology Group; Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Gregory R. Pond, Ph.D., P.Stat.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Associate Director Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Biostatistics Core
Naim Rashid, Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer and Medical Director; The Marcus Foundation
Jonathan W. Simons, M.D.
Director, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UAB
Barry P. Sleckman M.D., Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cancer Biology, E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Associate Director for Laboratory Research, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Ashani Weeraratna, Ph.D.
Staff
Chief Executive Officer
Shane Jacobson
Chief of Staff/Executive Director of Administration
Jackie Aanes
Vice President of Human Resources
Chanda Douglas-Ward
Chief Marketing Officer
Roger M. Ferguson
Chief Financial Officer
Devin Gilreath
Chief Scientific Officer
Susanna F. Greer, Ph.D.
Chief Development Officer
Lauren Hall
Honorary
Martin D. Abeloff, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Committee In Memoriam
Jim Allegro
Board of Directors in Memoriam
Rosa M. Gatti
Board Member Emeritus
Bob Lloyd
Board Chair Emeritus
John Saunders
Board of Directors In Memoriam
Anthony F. Smith, Ed.D.
Board of Directors In Memoriam
R.C. “Bucky” Waters
Board Member Emeritus
Our Founding Partner
The V Foundation’s national corporate sponsors promote our brand across the United States. They raise awareness, launch national activations and fundraise for the V Foundation. They are stewards of our vision
– Victory Over Cancer®.
SPB Hospitality
Shady Rays
PSD
Pepsi
PatientPoint
Miami Dolphins
First Watch
Delta Chi
Bubba’s 33
American Kennel Club
Hooters
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE)
Constellation Brands
Bristol Myers Squibb
UFC
We are proud to work with those who are dedicated to helping us realize Jim Valvano’s dream of defeating cancer. Thanks to these collaborators, we’re able to fund essential research that can someday cure the more than 100 diseases that are collectively known as “cancer.”
Gastric Cancer Foundation
Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation
The Kay Yow Cancer Fund
Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation