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cancer prevention |
COLLOQUIUM |
The Love/Avon Army of Women: A Collaboration to Accelerate ResearchSusan M. Love MD, MBA
President,
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Dr. Susan Love received her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York, did her surgical training at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Love has dedicated her professional life to the eradication of breast cancer. As President of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, she oversees an active $4 million dollar research program centered on breast cancer cause and prevention. She is also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Susan Love is best known as a trusted guide to women worldwide through her books and the Foundation website. The completely revised fifth edition of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book termed “the bible for women with breast cancer” by The New York Times was released October 2010.A true visionary, Susan Love’s most recent project, the Love/Avon Army of Women, is a creative Internet solution to partner women and scientists in order to accelerate basic translational research. If you are a person with a disability and require any assistive device, services or other reasonable accommodation to participate in this activity, please contact the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at 301-496-8640 at least one week in advance of the lecture date to discuss your accommodation needs. |