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Advisory committee members appointed

Issue: June 25, 2013

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The CDC announced seven new members have been appointed to the Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women.

Committee members help the CDC develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based approaches to advance the understanding and awareness of breast cancer among young women.

The new appointees are:

• Raquel D. Arias, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Keck School of Medicine and clinical associate professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California.
• Otis Webb Brawley, MD, FACP, chief medical officer and executive vice president for research and cancer control science for the American Cancer Society.
• Elyse Spatz Caplan, MA, a 20-year breast cancer survivor from Haverford, Pa., who serves as director of programs and partnerships for the nonprofit Living Beyond Breast Cancer.
• Sue Friedman, DVM, a breast cancer survivor from Tampa, Fla., who founded the national organization Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE).
• Susan E. Kutner, MD, a general surgeon with a subspecialty practice in breast surgery at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center.
• Karen (Dow) Meneses, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and associate dean for research in the school of nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and co-leader of the cancer control and population sciences program at UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
• Rochelle Lee Shoretz, JD, founder and executive director of Sharsheret, a national organization of cancer survivors dedicated to addressing the unique concerns of young Jewish women facing breast cancer.