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Shannon K. Bell is the Director of the Office of Advocacy Relations for the National Cancer Institute. This office, which is part of the immediate Office of the NCI Director, is responsible for engaging the advocacy and NCI communities in dialogue about cancer research opportunities and priorities in order to advance progress and improve outcomes. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Bell was the Deputy Director of the NCI Office of Workforce Development. Ms. Bell's interest in advocacy is long standing and has crossed numerous populations including children, families, the elderly and disabled. Ms. Bell holds a Masters in Social Work from the University of Wyoming.
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James Hadley is the Advocacy Program Manager in the Office of Advocacy Relations at the National Cancer Institute. He came to NCI from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where he was the Public Liaison Officer in the Office of Communications and Public Liaison. Mr. Hadley completed the NIH Cadre Management Program in 2000. The highly competitive 18-month program provides leadership training and developmental opportunities. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from San Jose State University in California, and earned a master's degree in mass communications from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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Ms. Michelle Hathaway joined the Office of Advocacy Relations (OAR) as a health communications intern in January 2008. She coordinates and leads a variety of OAR projects such as the Advocates in Research Working Group Preliminary Analysis, the Understanding NCI Toll-Free Teleconference Series, the Nealon Digest bimonthly enews, interoffice Webinars, and the evaluation of a number of OAR activities. Michelle Hathaway earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2004 and a Master of Public Health at Indiana University in Bloomington in May 2007. During her MPH program, Ms. Hathaway held various leadership roles, such as Co-president of the Latino Graduate Student Association (LGSA), and was involved with a number of public health related activities. She assisted in planning a cultural competency workshop in collaboration with the Center for Minority Health at Indiana University for health care professionals and provided leadership for the design and evaluation of the Healthy Lifestyles Conference 2007. Michelle’s research interests focus on racial and ethnic health disparities and she is interested in continuing her work on reducing and eliminating the health disparities gap among underserved populations in the future.
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Brooke Hamilton Leggin is a Program Analyst in OAR, previously having served as a Health Communications Intern, Professional Societies Liaison, CARRA Program Coordinator, DCLG Executive Secretary, and Acting Director. She currently works on special projects and focuses on website work, relationship building and meeting coordination, database management and information dissemination. A three-time melanoma survivor, Brooke brings a unique blend of personal cancer experience and knowledge of the research process to OAR. Before joining OAR in 2001, Ms. Leggin was a Ph.D. student in Applied Social Psychology at the George Washington University, where her research interests were in behavioral health psychology and cancer. Brooke graduated magna cum laude from Randolph-Macon College in 1996 with a B.A. in Psychology and English.
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Elizabeth Neilson is OAR's primary contact for issues regarding current CARRA members, program orientation and training, and staff requests for consumer involvement in NCI activities. In addition, she also serves on the steering committee for TEAM Up, a national partnership to promote cervical and breast cancer screening among rarely and never screened women using evidence-based interventions. Ms. Neilson received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Emory University, as well as a Master of Public Health and a Master of Science in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University.
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Linda Ticker is the administrative focal point for the office. She has over 15 years of administrative experience, both inside the Federal Government and in the private sector. Her previous NIH activities include positions in the NIH Executive Secretariat, the Neurology Information Office, and NCI's Office of Communications. Most recently, she currently serves as the administrative information portal for the Director's Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG) as well as for the Office of Advocacy Relations. She holds a B.S. Degree in Family and Community Development from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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