Now in its third year, the Women Who Conquer Cancer (WWCC) Mentorship Awards honor extraordinary female leaders in oncology who have both excelled as mentors and demonstrated outstanding commitment to the professional development of women colleagues as clinicians, educators, and researchers in oncology. With so many great nominations, picking a winner was no easy task for the WWCC Mentorship Award Selection Group.

“Excellent mentorship and training are critical to the development of exceptional future scientists. I am very proud of the two women who were selected for these well-deserved awards this year and the many women who were nominated. The future generations have benefited greatly from their mentorship” said Sandra Swain, MD, FACP, FASCO, chair of the Selection Group.

2018 Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award Recipients

Hologic, Inc Endowed Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award
Lori J. Pierce, MD, FASTRO, FASCO, is a professor with tenure of radiation oncology and vice provost for academic and faculty affairs at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the use of radiotherapy in the multimodality treatment of breast cancer with emphasis on cardiac-sparing in treatment planning, pre-clinical and clinical studies of radiation sensitizers with radiation therapy, and outcomes following radiation in women with breast cancer who carry a BRCA1/2 susceptibility gene. Dr. Pierce was an ASCO Board of Directors member from 2010 to 2014. She is currently chair of the Conquer Cancer Foundation Nominating Committee and past chair of the ASCO Leadership Development Program. 

International Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award
Rejin Kebudi, MD, is a professor in pediatric hematology-oncology at the Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine and the Istanbul University, Oncology Institute. She served on the board of the Istanbul University, Oncology Institute and as the director of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Division. She is a past president of the Turkish Pediatric Oncology Group and current chair of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology Supportive Care Working Group. She has been actively involved in the scientific activities of the Middle East Cancer Consortium. Dr. Kebudi has successfully mentored residents, fellows, and junior faculty over the last 25 years and has ensured that they make progress in their career.

The WWCC Mentorship Awards will be presented to Dr. Pierce and Dr. Kebudi during the Conquer Cancer Grants & Awards Ceremony in Chicago, IL, on June 3, 2018, at 5:00 PM.

The WWCC Mentorship Award Selection Group would also like to extend special congratulations to all of the nominees for this year's Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Awards:

• Alexandra Levine, MD, City of Hope National Medical Center
• Alice Shaw, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Angela DeMichele, MD, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania
• Angela Dispenzieri, MD, Mayo Clinic
• Ann Partridge, MD, MPH, FASCO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Anna Maria Storniolo, MD, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center
• Barbara Burtness, MD, Yale School of Medicine
• Beverly Mitchell, MD, Stanford Cancer Center
• Beverly Moy, MD, MPH, FASCO, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Carol Aghajanian, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Christina Annunziata, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute
• Cindy Schwartz, MD, MPH, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
• Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH, FASCO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Elisabeth Heath, MD, FACP, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
• Ellen Ronnen, MD, Regional Cancer Care Associates
• Eva Chalas, MD, FACOG, FACS, Winthrop University Hospital
• Hedvig Hricak, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Jaishri Blakeley, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Janice Mehnert, MD, Cancer Inst of New Jersey
• Joyce O'Shaughnessy, MD, Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center
• Julie Gralow, MD, FASCO, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
• Juliet Barker, MBBS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Karen Anderson, MD, Arizona State University
• Katharine Hsu, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Lisa DeAngelis, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Lucy Godley, MD, PhD, University of Chicago
• Maria Rodriguez, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Michelle Le Beau, PhD, University of Chicago
• Monica Mita, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Monica Morrow, MD, FACS, FASCO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Nancy Bartlett, MD, Washington University
• Nancy Kemeny, MD, FASCO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Nancy Tarbell, MD, Harvard Medical School
• Neli Ulrich, MS, PhD, Huntsman Cancer Institute
• Patricia LoRusso, DO, FASCO, Yale Cancer Center
• S. Gail Eckhardt, MD, FASCO, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
• Seiko Yamada, MD, University of Chicago
• Shivaani Kummar, MD, FACP, Stanford University
• Stacy Moulder, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Suzanne Wolden, MD, FACR, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Wendy Stock, MD, University of Chicago
• Wendy Woodward, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Zeina Nahleh, MD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
• Bogda Koczwara, BM BS FRACP Mbioethics, Flinders Medical Centre
• Desiree Hao, MD, FRCPC, Tom Baker Cancer Centre
• Dilyara Kaidarova, MD, PhD, Kazakh Institute of Oncology and Radiology
• Eva Segelov, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Monash Health and Monash University
• Flora Duarte Munoz, MD, Centro de Cancer Emma Romero de Callejas
• Karen Gelmon, MD, BC Cancer Agency
• Kelly-Anne Phillips, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• Lillian Siu, MD, FRCPC, FASCO, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
• Natasha Leighl, MD, FASCO, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
• Pamela Goodwin, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Mount Sinai Hospital
• Raya Saab, MD, American University of Beirut
• Silvia Novello, MD, PhD, Ospedale San Luigi
• Sushma Bhatnagar, MD, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, AIIM
• Verna Vanderpuye, MD, Center for Radiotherapy, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

Conquer Cancer also offers a special thanks to the members of the WWCC Mentorship Award Selection Group: Sandra Swain, MD, FACP, FASCO; Linda D. Bosserman, MD, FACP; Deanna B. van Gestel; Julie Vose, MD, MBA, FASCO; Arti Hurria, MD, FASCO; and Therese Mulvey, MD, FASCO.