The Story of Helen Moss
When I first discovered my cancer, I very naively felt that I could be just like Bruce Willis' character in 'Die Hard' and that I would fight this cancer off and be victorious. However, the treatment pulled me down and 'fighting' or that mind set drained my energy.
Read the rest of Helen's story here.
Board of Trustees
Helen Moss, Managing Trustee
Carole Adrine
Gregory R. Bean, Esq
Rev. Dr. Joan Campbell
Barrie Cassileth, Ph.D.
Dale H. Cowan, MD, JD,
Ensign Cowell
Stanton L. Gerson, M.D.
Betty Ann Helms
Jim Moss, Esq
John Moss
Peter Osenar
Timothy Resor, E.A.
Stephen Sagar, MD
Michael Weiss, MD, PhD
Robert J Ronis, M.D., M.P.H.
Wulf Utian, MD
Trustees Emeriti
Nathan Berger, MD
Barbara Peterson Ruhlman
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Board of Trustees Biographies
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Helen Moss, Founder and Managing Trustee |
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Education
After being a homemaker and having four children Helen realized a dream she never thought possible. Under President Lyndon Johnson the government started granting Government loans to students. At the age of 29 in 1966, Helen took advantage of this entitlement and started college at Kent State University and ended up with a scholarship graduating from the University of Akron with a Liberal Arts degree in English in 1970 summa cum laude and first in her graduating class. She subsequently taught English at the University of Akron and attended graduate and law school.
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 Carol A. Adrine is the Project Administration for the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love located at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, where she is responsible for the Institute's financial affairs.
Her previous position in the not-for-profit sector included managing the buildings and grounds of a century-old community music school in the Cleveland area.
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 Gregory R. Bean, Senior Vice President & Strategic Wealth Strategist FirstMerit Private Client Services
Greg is the Wealth Strategist for FirstMerit's Private Client Services covering all Northern Ohio regions and is a Senior Vice President of FirstMerit Corporation.
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Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell |
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 Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is an ordained minister with standing in two Christian denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American Baptist Church. Like many women in her generation, Rev. Campbell was first a wife, mother & community volunteer. At age 50, Rev. Campbell was ordained. She was already a leader in the ecumenical interfaith movement where she gave leadership for over 30 years.
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Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D. |
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 Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair of Integrative medicine
Chief, Integrative Medicine Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
As a researcher, educator and planner, Dr. Cassileth has worked in alternative and complementary (integrative) medicine and psychosocial aspects of cancer care for over twenty years. She has published extensively on these issues, and has been invited to lecture on these topics throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
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 Dale H. Cowan, MD, JD, FACP, FCLM
Private Practice, Indpendence, OH
Dale H. Cowan, MD, JD, FACP is Past Director, Department of Regional Oncology of The Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center and a Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. He is board certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Legal Medicine.
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 Ensign Cowell became the principal in a private money management firm after a 15-year career at TRW, Standard Oil of Ohio and finally as chief financial officer of Hospitality, Inc. Since 1980, he has worked with clients to help them define their needs. He then creates a money management program that fulfills those needs. The plan is adjusted as situations change.
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 Director of the Case Western Reserve University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals of Cleveland
Dr. Gerson has been with the Case School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland since 1983. Since 1995, he also has been chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology. In 1997, he was named the Asa and Patricia Shiverick- Jane Shiverick (Tripp) Professor of Hematological Oncology and, in 2003, he became the founding director of the Ohio Wright Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.
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Read more... [Stanton L. Gerson, M.D.,]
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 Bettyann S. G. Helms is the past president of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).
She graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a B.S. in interior design and architecture. Her firm of 40 years does corporate offices, executive homes, law firms, clubs, health care and hospitality. She specializes in Green, smart and accessible design.
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Jim Moss is an assistant county prosecutor with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office in Cleveland, Ohio.
He attended Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, OH, and then Northwestern University. He received his B.A. in English from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Experience
Vice President, Financial Advisor, Certified Financial Manager
1992 - Present Merrill Lynch, Cleveland, Ohio
Manage Individuals’ Assets that total over one hundred ten million dollars
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Read more... [John Moss]
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 Peter R. Osenar currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of The Emerald Health Network, Inc., a member of Interplan Health Group, Inc., and President, PPO Division, of The Parker Group, currently contracted with 2,115 hospitals, 292,732 physicians and 41,386 ancillary providers. Before this merger, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of EHN. Prior to that he was Group Executive Vice President for Ameritrust at the time of its sale to KeyBank.
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 Ziegler, Metzger & Miller LLP
Concentration
Estate and Trust Accounting; Individual and Fiduciary Income Tax Preparation; Federal and State Estate Tax Preparation.
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Read more... [Timothy Resor, E.A.]
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CURRICULUM VITAE AND BIBLIOGRAPY
Hamilton Health Sciences, Juravinski Cancer Centre, the Brain-Body Institute and
Departments of Oncology and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Date of preparation: 04/07/09
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Read more... [Dr. Stephen Sagar, MD]
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 Michael Weiss, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry Department
Case Western Reserve University
In 1985, Weiss earned his M.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the Harvard Medical School, and, in 1986, the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Harvard University. He then completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, from 1985 to 1988. He is board certified in internal medicine.
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Read more... [Michael Weiss, MD, PhD]
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 Former founding trustee of the Helen Moss Breast Cancer Foundation, Dr. Nathan Berger, has been named a trustee of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO).
Nathan A. Berger, M.D. is the Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine and Director of the Center for Science, Health and Society. He is Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Oncology at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine.
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 Barbara was a founding board member of this foundation in 2000 and her continued support and counsel has been vital to the success of our mission.
A quiet, unassuming woman, besides being a director of Pre-Formed Line Products Company, founded by her father, Barbara has been the President of the Thomas F. Peterson Foundation since 1988. She has established the Barbara Peterson Ruhlman Chair in Orthopedics at University Hospitals. As a graduate of Wellesley College she has established a fund for Interdisciplinary Studies at Wellesley. She is also a Trustee of Laurel School, a private school for girls, where she graduated Class of 1950. She is dedicated to her friends, family, and community.
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Robert J Ronis, M.D., M.P.H. |
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 Dr. Robert Ronis is the Douglas Danford Bond Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief for University Hospitals Health System..
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 WULF H UTIAN MB BCh, PhD, DSc (Med), FRCOG, FACOG, FICS
Consultant, Gynecology and Women’s Health, The Cleveland Clinic
Chair Scientific Board, RMR Inc.
Professor Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University
Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Honorary Founding President and Executive Director Emeritus, NAMS
Honorary Past President, International Menopause Society
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Our Sponsors and Partners
Save the Date
The 7th International Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology will take place between November 11-13, 2010 in New York City.
Featured Keynote Speakers:
Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD
President of the Institute of Medicine
Julia Rowland, PhD
Director of the NCI Office of Cancer Survivorship
Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, MPH
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School
For more details, please visit SIO's page |
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