Seton Hall Board of Regents member Donna M. O'Brien, President of Community Healthcare Strategies, LLC.
Seton Hall Board of Regents member Donna M. O'Brien, President of Community Healthcare Strategies, LLC, has been selected to receive the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Award. This award is being presented in recognition of Ms. O'Brien's work in developing The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP). She will receive her award during a presentation on July 29th in Bethesda, Maryland.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the largest institute of the National Institutes of Health, leads the nation's research efforts to discover better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. In 2007, NCI launched NCCCP as a three-year pilot program to extend the reach of NCI's cancer research into more U.S. states, cities and towns, including rural areas and inner cities. The NCCCP program has 16 community hospital cancer centers in 14 states representing a cross-section of this country's population and its health care organizations -- with a special focus on reaching minority and underserved patients. The NCCCP program sites serve 27,000 cancer patients each year. Plans are underway to expand the program.
The NCCCP program is creating a platform in the healthcare delivery system for personalized medicine and developing a national electronically-linked network which will collect high quality biospecimens and patient data to support molecular medicine and the work of the Cancer Genome Atlas. The overarching goal is to bring science, early-phase clinical research, and evidence-based therapies to people in their home communities.
Ms. O'Brien currently coordinates healthcare projects in several locations across the U.S. Her prior experience includes serving as Executive Vice President of Catholic Health Services of Long Island, Associate Director of the Alliance for Catholic Health and Human Services in New York City, and as Assistant Administrator for Hospital Administration at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She was a Member of the New York State Governor's Commission to Restructure Healthcare Facilities for the Twenty-first Century and currently serves on the Board of Regents for Seton Hall University and on the Board of Directors of the Flushing Savings Bank.
Ms. O'Brien is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and she has her Masters of Health Administration from St Louis University. She is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
For more information please contact: Maria Fernandez (973) 761-9203 Maria.Fernandez@shu.edu
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