University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Ms. Spears is an over 20-year breast cancer survivor and a liver cancer survivor. She has been a cancer research patient advocate for over 20 years. She is currently working as a scientific research manager and patient advocate at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) where she leads the UNC Lineberger Patient Advocates for Research Council (PARC) and the UNC Breast SPORE Advocates. At UNC she focuses on communicating research to the public and facilitates the engagement of patient advocates with Lineberger researchers and clinical trials.
Ms. Spears has been involved in several NCI Committees. She is currently Associate Group Chair for Advocacy for the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. She is also Chair of the Alliance Patient Advocate Committee and a member of the Breast Cancer Committee. She is currently a member of the Investigational Drug Steering Committee (IDSC) and is a Co-Chair of the Patient Advocate Steering Committee. She is also a member of the NCI Clinical Trials and Translational Research Advisory Committee (CTAC). Ms. Spears is also a volunteer for American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) serving on the TAPUR Molecular Tumor Board and in 2022 she received the ASCO Patient Advocate Award. For the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) she currently serves on the Science Policy and Government Affairs Committee and Trust in Science Task Force. She was the recipient of the AACR 2020 Distinguished Public Service Award for Advocacy.
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