Dr. Lisa Alexander has been a faculty member in the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GWSMHS) since 1982. As the Assistant Dean for Community Based Partnerships, she identifies and oversees the outreach and community engagement activities for the GWSMHS. She works closely with students from all disciplines to educate them on the challenges of practicing medicine in low-income urban neighborhoods and on the relationship between health disparities and generational poverty. A staunch advocate for health equity, she is a co-investigator for the NCI funded Patient Navigation Research Program (PNRP) and provides training sessions monthly for the patient navigators. Since 1999, she has served as the Principal Investigator for the DC Area Health Education Center (DC AHEC), a Title VII program funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The program is a collaborative with the primary care community clinics and academic health centers in Washington that has facilitated strong inter-institutional partnerships among many of the PNRP sites across the city.

Dr. Elizabeth Calhoun is a Senior Research Scientist in the division of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health as well as Director of a Quantitative Methods in Clinical Research Certificate Program. Dr. Calhoun is one of the principal investigators for the Chicago Patient Navigator Research Program funded by the NCI and co-chairman of the national patient navigator training program for the NCI, ACS, and CMS navigators programs. Dr. Calhoun has led the effort to develop the current national curriculum for training of patient navigators and to evaluate the curriculum. The overall goal of her research is to eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in cancer. Dr. Calhoun’s research agenda includes several funded projects designed to achieve this goal. One project, REACH OUT, is part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded research demonstration program, Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH 2010). It is a community-led, faith-based coalition comprised of 17 churches, a network of community health centers, and investigators from UIC. The group collaborates to mobilize low-income women of color to seek early breast and cervical cancer detection services through education, outreach, and linkage to free and low-cost cancer screening services.

Mandi P. Chapman is Co-Director of the GW Cancer Institute Center for the Advancement of Cancer Survivorship, Navigation and Policy (caSNP) and founding Director of the GWCI Office of Cancer Survivorship. She is responsible for creating a vision and strategic plan for coordinated survivorship care across the GW Medical Center. She is Chair of the GW Cancer Survivorship Task Force and provides high level direction for the GW Cancer Survivorship Center, the first adult survivorship clinic in Washington, DC. She is program director for the GWCI – EagleBank Cancer Survivorship Research and Health Disparities Symposium, an annual event for cancer survivorship researchers, clinicians and cancer survivors. She is Co-Investigator on a study entitled "Assessing Educational Resources and Barriers for Pediatric Cancer Survivors in the District of Columbia"; and she is Principal Investigator for an American Cancer Society Targeted Community Investment Grant entitled "Patient Resource Navigation Enhancement," which aims to increase utilization of supportive care, improve care coordination and improve patient satisfaction through improved communication with patients. She also co-chairs the Survivorship Subcommittee of the DC Cancer Consortium, the body charged with implementing a cancer control plan for the District of Columbia.

Allison Cuff Shimooka is a Managing Director with the Oncology Roundtable where she conducts and oversees research for a membership of over 600 cancer programs. During her tenure with the Roundtable she has led research studies on clinical quality, operational efficiency and tumor site strategy and developed a suite of online strategic planning tools. Prior to joining the Advisory Board Company, Ms. Shimooka worked with a biotechnology company in Edinburgh, Scotland developing partnering strategies for protein-based therapeutics and L.E.K. Consulting advising biotechnology, medical device and health services companies on a variety of strategic issues. Ms. Cuff received her M.B.A. in Health Care Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania where she was named a Palmer Scholar. She received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry cum laude from Dartmouth College.

Dr. Leonard Friedman is an expert on the mechanisms of organizational change and strategic decision-making in health service organizations. He joined the George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services in 2008 from Oregon State University, where he was professor in the Department of Public Health and coordinator of the school's health management and policy programs. In his years in academia, Dr. Friedman's scholarly interests have evolved from the mechanisms by which hospitals decide to adopt certain technological innovations in clinical settings, to the underperformance of integrated health systems, to developing a model of organizational change practices. He has also explored organizational responses to cataclysmic events, such as public health disasters, and is currently studying system approaches to reducing medical errors and the roots of organizational excellence in health care. Professor Friedman has taught classes in health care management, organizational theory and behavior in health care, health care law and regulation, strategic management and leadership in health care organizations.

Mary McCabe is Director of the Cancer Survivorship Program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where she is responsible for developing and implementing center wide comprehensive programs for adult cancer survivors. She is also a faculty member in the Division of Medical Ethics at the Cornell Weill Medical College. A graduate of Trinity College, Emory University, and Catholic University, Mary McCabe held several positions at the National Cancer Institute before joining the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, including Assistant Director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, Director of the Office of Clinical Research Promotion, and faculty member of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Mary McCabe has served as a member of numerous committees, including Co-Chair of the Clinical Research Networks Working Group at the National Institute of Health, Chair of the Clinical Trials Integration Committee at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Scientific Advisory Board, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and is a faculty member of the NCI Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Progress Review Group. She is a member of the Oncology Nursing Society, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Nurses Association, Women in Cancer Research, and American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Mary McCabe has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, serves on the editorial boards for Seminars in Oncology Nursing, Oncology, and Oncology News International, and is editor of Oncology for Nurses. She has received numerous awards, including the American Cancer Society Merit Award, Oncology Nursing Society Leadership Award, NIH Outstanding Performance Award, NIH Director’s Award, and the Outstanding Alumnae Award, Emory University.