Leadership

No one should experience breast cancer alone. We know.

Founded in 1999 by Melodie Wilson, ABCD is governed by a Board of Directors and served by a committed Medical and Community Advisory Board.

Board of Directors

• Mark S. Young, President
• Audrey Warner, Vice President
• Therese Burkhart, Secretary
• Jody Furlong, Treasurer
• Elizabeth Brenner, Immediate Past President
• Bonnie Anderson
• Bill Bazan
• Rohini Desai
• Mary J. Dowell
• Ruth Kallio-Mielke
• Hon. Lisa Neubauer
• Theresa Reagan
• Wayne Oldenburg
• Patricia Sara
• Sandra Underwood, Ph.D. 

Meet the Staff

Medical and Community Advisory Council

• Dawn Anderson
  Wisconsin Breast Cancer Coalition
• Rebecca Anderson, PhD
  Medical College of Wisconsin
• Saleem Bakhtiar, MD
  Aurora Sinai Medical Center
• Brian Bear, MD
  Milwaukee, OB-GYN
• Carol Cameron
  Pink Shawl Initiative
• Darryl Cremer
  Jane Cremer Foundation
• Kathryn Klein Havens, MD
  Clement J Zablocki VA Center, Women’s Medical Director
• Oza Holmes, RN, MSN, OCN
  Aurora Sinai Medical Center
• Gwen Jackson
  Community Volunteer
• Gary Lewis, MD, MA
  Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare
• Pam Lyon, RN
  Aurora West Allis Memorial Hospital-Women’s Pavilion
• Karen Maynard
  Wisconsin Breast Cancer Coalition
• Wendy Mikkelson, MD
  Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
• Michele Nygro
  M&I Bank/BMO Harris
• Joan Prince, PhD
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Anna Purdy, NP
  Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin
• Mark Sabljak
  The Business Journal
• Robyn Shapiro, JD
  Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP
• Thelma Sias
  We Energies
• Deb Theine, RN
  St. Mary’s Columbia Hospital – Van Dyke Haebler Center
• Sue Ann Thompson
  Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation
• Judy Tjoe, MD
  Aurora Sinai Medical Center
• Sue Toth, RN, MS
  Aurora West Allis Memorial Hospital – Women’s Pavilion
• Sandra Millon Underwood, RN, PhD, FAAN
  UWM College of Nursing
• Debra Ushakow
  Southeastern Oneida Tribal Services
• Marjorie Vukelich, MD
  Aurora Health Center – Slinger
• Alonzo Walker, MD
  Medical College of Wisconsin
• Leslie Waltke, PT
  Aurora Rehabilitation Center
• J Frank Wilson, MD
  Medical College of Wisconsin
• John Yousif, MD
  Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery Associates, SC