Eric P. Winer, M.D., is chief scientific advisor for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Dr. Winer advises the organization on its grants strategy and public policy efforts. He also directs the organization on the development of educational messages. Winer leads a small group of top-level scientific and medical advisors, Komen's Scientific Advisory Board, which guides Komen in scientific matters. Additionally, Dr. Winer serves as the director of the Breast Oncology Center and the Thompson Senior Investigator in Breast Cancer Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Read more | Play video
Melissa Bondy, Ph.D. professor of Epidemiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston specializing in the study of genetics and risk factors which cause cancer. Play video
Powel Brown, professor of medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; associate director of cancer prevention and director of cancer prevention and populations studies program, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center; and associate director of research at the Breast Care Center Baylor-Methodist. Play video
H. Kim Lyerly, M.D., George Barth Geller Professor of Research at Duke University, Durham, N.C.; director of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal investigator of the Duke Specialized Program in Research Excellence (SPORE).
Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, chairman of Komen's National Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where she also is founding director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research. Dr. Ramirez is also a former member of the National Cancer Advisory Board and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health. Play video
George W. Sledge, M.D., Ballve-Lantero Professor of Oncology and co-director of the breast cancer program at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. He is also professor of medicine and pathology at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Sledge was awarded the Komen Brinker Award of Scientific Distinction in 2006. Play video
Sara Sukumar, Ph.D., professor of oncology and pathology and co-director of the breast cancer research program at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Chris Tannous, Ph.D., two-time breast cancer survivor, President and Public Policy Chair of the Orange County of Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, national delegate to the Global Initiative, member of the steering committee for the Komen Advocates in Science Program, and consumer reviewer of research grants for the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program in breast cancer.
