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Participants

Our STARS PRA and STARS Scholar programs are comprised of patient research advocates. The exchange of information increases familiarity and comfort with research, and the formation of new relationships inspires the participants to share their new knowledge with their respective patient support groups.

2024 STARS PRA Participants
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  • Lynn Abbott-McCloud - United States

  • Denise Cutlip - United States

  • Graham Hall - Australia

  • Hanin Hussain - Singapore

  • Sofia Jubany - Argentina

  • Matthew Koebbe - United States

  • Yuan Lew - Canada

  • Angeline Low - Australia

  • Aurora Lucas - United States

  • Aditya Manna - India

  • Bev Moir - Canada

  • Lia Ridout - United States

  • Peter Spolc - Australia

2024 STARS Scholars​
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  • Jane Perlmutter - United States

  • James Pantelas - United States

  • Yvonne Diaz - United Kingdom

  • Emily Venanzi - United States

  • Anita Mcgrath - Australia

  • Christine Wu - Canada

  • Sydney Barned - United States

  • Tim Monds - Canada

2024

2023 STARS PRA participants

2023 STARS PRA Participants
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  • ​Chris Conneran - United States

  • Elizabeth Dols - United States

  • Laura Floyd - Canada

  • Larry Gershon - United States

  • Tarunima Malik Grover - India

  • Tiffini Joseph - United States

  • Barbara Martin - United States

  • Oonagh McArdle - Ireland

  • Tim Monds - Canada

  • Aileen Murgatroyd - United Kingdom

  • Pierre Onda - United States

  • Diedre Russo - United States

  • Lorraine Tyler - Australia

2023 STARS PRA participants
2023 STARS Scholars​
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  • Emi Bossio Bell - Canada

  • Dave Bjork - United States

  • Bruce Dunbar - United States

  • Caleb Egwuenu - Nigeria

  • Michel Itel - Australia

  • Angus Pratt - Canada

  • Lorraine Tyler - Australia 

  • Wayne Yeung - United States

2023

2021 STARS PRA Participants
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  • Aliye Bricker, United States — Cleveland Clinic Foundation 

  • Sarah Christ, United States — Lung Cancer Research Program

  • Seamus Cotter, Ireland — Irish Lung Cancer Community (ILCC)

  • Tiffany Fagnani, United States — Fox Chase Cancer Center

  • Leslie LaChance, United States

  • Nabanita Mandal, India

  • Jacquelyn Nixon, United States — Citizens Radioactive Radon Reduction (CR3)

  • Stella O’Brien, United Kingdom — NHS England’s ATMP Working Group

  • Korina Pateli-Bell, Greece — Fair Life Lung Cancer Care

  • Angus Pratt, Canada — Canadian Cancer Society

  • Andrea Redway, Canada — Canadian Cancer Survivors Network

  • Mike Smith, United States — Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina

  • Bärbel Söhlke, Germany — zielGENau e. V.

  • Diane Van Keulen, Canada

  • Wayne Yeung, United States — KRAS Kickers

2021

2020 STARS PRA Participants
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  • Laura Book, United States — EGFR Resisters Board 

  • Lisa Briggs, Australia — Lung Foundation Australia

  • Anne Marie Cerato, Canada

  • Diane Colton, Canada 

  • Terri Conneran, United States — KRAS Kickers  

  • Caleb Eqwuenu, Nigeria 

  • Tomma Hargraves, United States — UNC-Chapel Hill's Cancer Hospital 

  • Erika Hlavacek, United States — YEAHbestlife 

  • Lily Huang, New Zealand 

  • Kimberly Lester, United States 

  • Anita McGrath, Australia — Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia; Australasian Lung Cancer Trials Group 

  • Christine Qiong Wu, Canada 

  • Debera Violette, United States — Free ME from Lung Cancer Foundation 

  • Tom Wood, Australia — Lung Foundation Australia

2020 STARS Mentors
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  • Andrew Ciupek, United States — GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer

  • Ivy Elkins, United States — EGFR Resisters

  • Melissa Crouse, United States — RET Renegades

  • Merel Hennink, Netherlands — Longkanker Nederland

  • Lillian Leigh, Australia — Cancer Australia

  • Susan McCullough, Australia

2020

2019 STARS PRA Participants
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  • Susan McCullough, Australia 

  • Kimberly MacIntosh, Canada

  • Caleb Egwuenu, Africa — Move Against Cancer Africa

  • Shelly Engfer-Triebenbach, USA — ALKFusion

  • Laura Greco, USA — ALKFusion

2019 STARS Mentors
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  • Lillian Leigh, Australia

  • Jill Hamer-Wilson, Canada

  • Dusty Donaldson, USA — LiveLung & LungCAN

  • Upal Basu Roy, USA — LUNGevity

  • Jill Feldman, USA — EGFR Resisters

2019

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