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Leadership Team 

Katie Manga, MS

Chair, Missouri Cancer Consortium

Chief Executive Officer of Gateway to Hope

Misty Phillips, MBA, MSW

Chair-Elect, Missouri Cancer Consortium

Manager of Research Activities,
University of Missouri

Sarah Chavez, PhD

Immediate Past Chair, Missouri Cancer Consortium

Senior Scientist, Siteman Cancer Center and Washington University School of Medicine

Xarria Lewis, MPH

Executive Committee

Comprehensive Cancer Program Manager, Bureau of Cancer and Chronic Disease Control, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services

Iris Zachary, PhD

Executive Committee

Director, Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center Associate Research Professor University of Missouri

Emily Kalmer

Executive Committee

Missouri Government Relations Director for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network

Maggie Grotefendt

Executive Committee

Strategic Partnerships Manager, American Cancer Society

Rudy Bess

Executive Committee

Founding Director - The Hope Light Foundation

Alison Thornton

Executive Committee

Executive Director of the Lung Cancer Connection and Co-Chair of the Missouri Lung Cancer Coalition

Hope Krebill, RN, BSN, MSW

Executive Committee

Executive Director, Masonic Cancer Alliance

Rachel Sanford, MD

Executive Committee

Attending Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer-Center

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