WCF Foundation Leadership -- Britt-Marie Ljung --

FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP

President
Mahesh K. Shetty M.D; FRCR; FACR
Clinical Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Chief Physician, Woman's Place for
Breast Care
The Woman's Hospital of Texas,
Houston, Texas

Patron
Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Chairman & Managing Director
Biocon Limited
Bangalore, India

Trustees
Ron Somers
President
US-India Business Council
Washington D.C.

Linda Russell
CEO
The Woman's Hospital of Texas
Houston, Texas

Mrs. Janelle Freilich
Accounting Manager
BMC Software, Inc

Jennifer Garza
COO
St Joseph Medical Center

Mrs. Mona Parikh PHR, MBA
Sr. Human Resources Business
Partner

Mr Andrew Novarini
Senior Vice President
Bank of Houston

Kelli Cohen MD
General and Pediatric Radiologist

PROGRAM ADVISOR

Loretta A. Hanser
Director of Imaging Services
Mammography, CHP Radiology
Harris County Hospital District

Regional Directors
Mrs. Trishna Dey [Asia]
Ms. Esther Biira [Africa]
Dr Adhmer Longatto [S.America]
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MEDICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Chair
Mahesh Shetty MD; FRCR;FACR
Clinical Professor of Radiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Members
Dr. Steve Sener
Former President
American Cancer Society

R. Sankaranarayanan
Chief of Cancer Screening Group
International Agency for Research on Cancer,
WHO
Lyon, France

Saraswati Sukumar MD
Barbara B.Rubenstein Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Britt-Marie Ljung, MD
Professor of Clinical Pathology,
Director of Cytopathology
UCSF, California

Dr Usha Menon MD; FRCOG
Professor and Director
Gynecological Cancer Research Center
UCL Elizabeth Garrett Institute of Women's Health
University College London

Dr Edmundo Mauad
Director
Barretos Cancer Hospital,
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Peter Dempsey MD; FACR
Professor of Radiology
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Terri Pustilnik MD
Gynecology Oncology of Houston

Dr Shalini Kulasingam
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Dr Diljeet K. Singh, MD, DrPH
Co Chair of MAC

Dr Wei Yang, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.R.
Associate Professor
Deputy Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Co-Chair and Director of Clinical Research

Dr Neerja Bhatla MD, FICOG
A/Professor, Dept of Ob-Gyn, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India,
Vice President, AOGIN,
Inaugural President, AOGIN-India,
Organising Chairperson, AOGIN 2010

Dr Jill Donnelly
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Herford Hospital, UK

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PUBLIC AWARENESS COUNCIL

Mrs. Susan Rafte
Chair of the PAC

Mrs. Sathya Saran
Co-chair,
Editor DNA,
Former Editor, Femina,
Mumbai, India

Ms. Lucy Noland
Co-chair,
News anchor,
KHOU-TV,
Houston

Sanaz (Sunny) A. Jansen
Mouse Cancer Genetics Program
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, Maryland

Britt-Marie Ljung, MD
Professor of Clinical Pathology,
Department of Pathology
School of Medicine

EDUCATION

1969-71	Karolinska Institute Pre-Med School , Stockholm, Sweden	Resident	Medicine

1971-75	Karolinska Institute Medical School, Stockholm, Sweden	M.D.	Medicine

1975-77	Rotating Internship, Internal Medicine and Surgery, & Psychiatry, and General Practice, Koping Hospital, Koping, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden	Intern	Medicine

LICENSES, CERTIFICATION

1980 (Jan)	ECFMG exam

1980 (June)	FLEX

1981 (June)	California license to practice medicine

PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD

1981-1982	Visiting Assistant Professor of Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

1982-1983	Assistant Adjunct Professor of Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

1983-1989	Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Pathology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California (UCSF)

HONORS AND AWARDS

1985	First Prize in Health Sciences Communications Association Media Festival, Patient Education Category: Educational Video for Hospital Network, "The Nature of Breast Cancer," David Watts, Producer.

986-1987	Academic Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity Faculty Development Affirmative Action Award.

1987	1987 Year Book of Cancer, Year Book Medical Publishers. Article chosen from 40,000 citations for publication (no. 16 under Publications)

SUMMARY OF CLINICAL ACTIVITIES

Vice Chair of Pathology Mt. Zion Campus since 2004
Co-Director Division of Cytology since 2000
Director Division of Cytopathology 1995-2000
I work full time on the Mount Zion Campus and attend 40-50% time on the cytology service.
I act as the senior back up faculty for technically challenging cases in the fine needle aspiration clinic. I am also available for microscopic interpretation of difficult internal cases. These activities are in addition to my regular service load.

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