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About
Us > Scientific
Advisors
Last update: 08/03/2004
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John Densmore, MD, PhD
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John J.
Densmore, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia. He is interested in biologic approaches to the treatment of lymphoma and is participating in clinical trials of idiotype vaccines and other immunotherapy approaches to the treatment of lymphoma. |
Dr. Lucien Joubert, M.D. |
Lucien
Joubert MD is both a physician and a clinical
pharmacologist. He's a graduate of the University of Montreal, and a
member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American
Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
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Lynda Olender,
R.N., A.N.P., C.N.A.A.
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Lynda Olender, R.N.
A.N.P., C.N.A.A.
is serving as Chief Nurse Executive, Bronx VA Medical Center. In this role she plans, develops, directs and evaluates nursing practices across all Patient Care Centers within the medical center. Additionally she serves as a consultant in Clinical Nutrition having served on an interdisciplinary Nutrition Support Team for over 10 years. In this role she advises care for high nutritional risk patients - many receiving feeding by feeding tube or via the intravenous route. She is also an Assistant Professor, Division of Nursing - New York University, and has developed curriculum and instructed for both undergraduate and graduate courses including Professional Nursing, Leadership in Nursing, Comparative Health Systems (for Nurses and Allied Health students) for the last 12 years.
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Susan Olender, M.D.
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Susan
Olender, MD Graduate of NYU School of
Medicine. Her interests include access to health care and epidemiology.
While at NYU, Susan helped form the first student-operated free clinic
-- the NYC Free Clinic -- sponsored by the School of Medicine, and
co-sponsored by the Institute for Urban Family Health.
Susan also conducted epidemiology research in a developing nation and was a supporting
member of the Physicians for a National Health Care initiative.
Now she is a first year resident in Internal
Medicine-Primary Care at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. In
addition access to care, she is interested in pain management of
chronic illness.
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Dimitris Placantonakis, MD, Ph.D.
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Dimitris
Placantonakis, MD, PhD Graduate of NYU
School of Medicine; will begin his residency in
Neurosurgery at NY Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Medical
School. His interests include functional neurosurgery, epilepsy,
movement disorders, gene therapy and neuronal tissue imaging.
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Lurdes Queimado, MD, PhD
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Lurdes
Queimado, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Lurdes has a Ph.D. in molecular pathology and
has worked in cancer research since 1992. Research Interests: My major research interest is in the study of cancer with the ultimate goal of contributing to better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Another area of main interest is DNA repair. Repair of DNA damage is essential for cell survival and mitigates cancer development.
Advocacy Interests:
- Further patient’s education. Being well informed is the best tool to fight cancer.
- Increase patient’s participation on clinical trials. Without trials,
better treatments will not be approved.
- Increase funding for basic and clinical research. Without research no novel treatments will be developed.
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Susan B. Spector, MS, RD, CDN.
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Susan
Spector is Dietetic Internship Director Clinical
Coordinator/Nutrition & Food Program at the U.S. Department of
Veteran Affairs. |
Dr.
Andrew
Croaker, MD
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Andy Croaker, Bachelor Medicine (Newcastle), FRACGP 2001.
Diagnosed with low grade advanced follicular lymphoma 01/2002 resulting in a
career change. Currently working to form a fund raising organization for
Lymphoma Research and working at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in the field of immunotherapy.
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Allen Cohen, MD |
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Anonymous |
Our
anonymous advisors are medical professionals who are
directly fighting NHL while pursuing professional careers. The need to
remain anonymous speaks to the hidden penalties of living with lymphoma in our society.
We especially value the insights and contributions of our
anonymous scientific advisors because they have a unique perspective of
understanding both the
medical system and the experience of living with the disease.
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