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Board of Directors

Lung Cancer Foundation of America Board of Directors are doctors, lung cancer survivors, advocates and loved ones. Their career paths span wide ranging fields: medicine, law, corporate management, philanthropy and entertainment.

What brings them together is their deep and personal understanding of the realities of a lung cancer diagnosis and the very real need to increase funding for lung cancer research.



Trish Coury

President of Lakeview Village Corporation and Jabbel Holdings LLC

Trish Coury serves as President of Lakeview Village Corporation and Jabbel Holdings LLC, a privately held family real estate company where she is responsible for the day-to-day operations and management of ove…

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Martin Edelman, M.D.

Chair: Lung Cancer Foundation of America Scientific Advisory Board
Fox Chase Cancer Center: Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology
Professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology
Deputy Cancer Center Director for Clinical Research

Dr. Edelman chairs Lung Cancer Foundation of America’s Scientific Advisory Board. As the chair, Dr. Edelman represents the Scientific Advisory Board at meetings of the Board of Directors.

Edelman’s achievements in oncology in…

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Robert A. Figlin, MD, FACP

Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology, Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Director, Division of Hematology Oncology
Deputy Director
Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Dr. Figlin is a Senior Investigator in Translational Research with more than 25 years of expertise in designing and conducting clinical trials in lung and kidney cancer. He is the Associate Director of the Academic Development Program and Di…

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Marta Kauffman

Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the Netflix comedy series "Grace and Frankie" and the Emmy award winning series "Friends."

Marta Kauffman, creator of the Netflix comedy series “Grace and Frankie” also co-created and executive produced the Emmy Award-winning series “Friends.”

Previously, Kauffman co-created and served as executive producer …

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David T. Levinson

Founder/Executive Director – Big Sunday

David Levinson is the Founder and Executive Director of Big Sunday. On Big Sunday Weekends, more than 50,000 volunteers of all ages worked together at more than 500 different nonprofit sites in 69 different towns and cities throughout Southe…

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Susan A. Mandel, M.D.

Physician, Internal Medicine; Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine.

Dr. Susan Mandel is an Internal  Medicine  physician in private practice in Beverly Hills and is on the medical staff of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Read More





In Memory
Lori Monroe

Founder – Lung Cancer Foundation of America
1958 – 2013

A registered nurse and mother of three daughters, Lori was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer in September, 2001, at age 42. Nobody suspected lung cancer because Lori had quit smoking at age 28. While the diagnosis was shocking and devastat…

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Kim Norris

Founder/President – Lung Cancer Foundation of America

A successful management consultant working with corporations and executives to improve their bottom line, Kim entered the world of lung cancer when Roy, her 45-year-old husband, was diagnosed with stage IV lung ca…

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Michelle Sayer

General Counsel and Seasoned In-house Counsel

Michelle Sayer is a Southern Californian who is an experienced executive and seasoned in-house attorney.

She was the General Counsel at Panasonic Avionics and a Vice President, Deputy General Counsel at Broadcom Corporation, where she…

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David Sturges

Founder/Treasurer – Lung Cancer Foundation of America

An attorney and lung cancer survivor, David was diagnosed 22 years after he quit smoking and a little over one year after he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. He underwent surgery for removal of two lobes of his right lung. Like many people, after hi…

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Carolyn Zainer

Founder and Owner of CAZ Designs, Inc

Carolyn has been a resident of California since 1982, relocating from Milwaukee, WI. She developed her sales and marketing career in the technology industry and has more than 30 years of experience in sales development and execution, commerc…

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LCFA’s mission is the improvement in survivorship of lung cancer patients through the funding of transformative science.

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