Welcome to New Council Members
In 1997 the Breast Cancer Research Council elected a new Chair and Vice-Chair, as well as welcomed three new members. The incoming Chair for the BCRC is industry representative, Robert Erwin and the Vice-Chair is Breast Cancer Advocate, Suzette Wright. We look forward to an exciting year under their leadership. The BCRC is also proud to add Breast Cancer Advocate representative Floretta Chisom, Non-Profit Health representative Judith Luce, and Scientist/Clinician representative Anne Wallace to its ranks.
Floretta Chisom brings many years of experience in committee work and team building to the BCRC. Currently the Director of Health and Human Services for Oakland CA, she also serves on a variety of health and social service committees including: the Healthy Start Advisory Board; the City of Oakland Commission on Homelessness; the City of Oakland Health Commission; the Community action agency advisory board; and the Ann Martin Children’s Center. She became active in the fight against breast cancer as a member of the Breast Cancer Fund Board. The welfare of her daughter provides Ms. Chisom with her strong motivation for eradicating breast cancer.
Judith Luce has demonstrated her dedication to the fight against breast cancer by her volunteer and her professional work. She has been an active member of American Cancer Society for over 15 years. She has served as president of the San Francisco Unit of the ACS, as well as both member and Chairperson of the California Division of the Breast Health Task Force. Dr. Luce is a faculty member at UCSF and the director of Oncology Services at San Francisco General Hospital. She is also the principal investigator on several clinical trials including a study on breast and cervical cancer intervention, and a multi-center breast cancer prevention trial. Her proudest achievement of her volunteer/research life has been her work with others in the Department of Public Health to offer breast and cervical cancer screening to underserved women in San Francisco. “We started this work in 1988, and today have highly successful programs in BCCCP (we were one of the first in the state) and BCEDP, as well as a new program to do targeted outreach to every woman in our patient population who has not been screened. We have worked with a variety of others to accomplish this, and I am certain that we are seeing the results of these efforts in better health for women in our city.”
Anne Wallace has substantial experience with breast cancer patients, basic research, and clinical research. She is a surgeon at the University of California, San Diego whose practice consists primarily of breast cancer patients. Dr. Wallace has experience in research at many levels. She heads the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) for UCSD, a large scale clinical study that has increased in efficiency and in the patient participation under her direction. She is a member of the UCSD Cancer Center Protocol Review Committee, which is a body that evaluates the protocols for grant applications from the entire Cancer Center. She also collaborates on research projects that investigate the basic biology of breast cancer. She has a profound interest in funding forward thinking research that is maximally beneficial to breast cancer patients.
