nancy brinker
Founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Nancy Brinker is a breast cancer survivor who lost her only sister, Susan, to the disease which prompted her to start the organization. [1]
Founded by Nancy G. Brinker as a promise to her sister Suzy, the foundation has raised more than $750 million for breast cancer over the years. [2]
The Art of Seeing the Invisible - Drawing on her 25-year experience transforming a small living-room operation into a billion-dollar global network against breast cancer, Ambassador Nancy Brinker shares the leadership lessons that every executive and employee needs to know to build their company, energize their teams, strengthen their brand and institutionalize a Culture of Innovation that allows organizations to stay ahead of the competition and achieve world-class results. [3]
Along with millions of other breast-cancer survivors, I’m grateful to Nancy Brinker. [4]
Nancy Brinker, who founded the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation as a promise to a sister who was dying from breast cancer, was among 16 people named Thursday to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. [5]
Ms. Brinker is the recipient of numerous national awards including: the 2007 Castle Connolly “National Health Leadership” Award; Trumpet Foundation’s 2007 President’s Award, The American Society of Breast Disease 2006 Global Pathfinder Award, the 2005 Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award in Support of Medical Research and the Health Sciences, Sword of Ignatius Loyola Award from Saint Louis University, The Champions of Excellence Award presented by the Centers for Disease Control, the Susan F. Smith Inspiration Award from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Healthcare Humanitarian Award presented by the Global Conference Institute, the ASCO Special Recognition Award, Toastmasters International Top Five Speakers for 2001 Award, the Sisters Network 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ladies’ Home Journal’s 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, Biography Magazine’s The 25 Most Powerful Women in America, the 1999 Caring Award, the 2000 Cino del Duca Award, the first Salomon Smith Barney Extraordinary Achievement Award, the James Ewing Layman Award from the Society of Surgical Oncology, Albert Einstein’s Sarnoff Volunteer Award, Ladies’ Home Journal’s Top 10 Champions of Women’s Health, among many others. [6]
Recent, 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Nancy G. Brinker ignited the global breast cancer movement 27 years ago by promising her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died at age 36 of the disease, that she would put an end to the shame, pain, fear and hopelessness caused by breast cancer. [3]
Nancy G. Brinker ignited the global breast cancer movement by promising her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died at age 36 of the disease, that she would put an end to the shame, pain, fear and hopelessness caused by breast cancer. [7]
For almost 25 years, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has worked tirelessly to educate and eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease. [2]
Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker was sworn in as Chief of Protocol of the United States on September 14, 2007. [8]
A 20-year cancer survivor, Brinker said she has seen tremendous changes in the way the disease is handled by doctors. [2]
Ms. Brinker is the recipient of numerous national awards including: Sword of Ignatius Loyola Award from Saint Louis University, The Champions of Excellence Award presented by the Centers for Disease Control, the Susan F. Smith Inspiration Award from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Healthcare Humanitarian Award presented by the Global Conference Institute, the ASCO Special Recognition Award, Toastmasters International Top Five Speakers for 2001 Award, the Sisters Network 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ladies’ Home Journal’s 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, Biography Magazine’s The 25 Most Powerful Women in America, the 1999 Caring Award, the 2000 Cino del Duca Award, the first Salomon Smith Barney Extraordinary Achievement Award, the James Ewing Layman Award from the Society of Surgical Oncology, Albert Einstein’s Sarnoff Volunteer Award, Ladies’ Home Journal’s Top 10 Champions of Women’s Health, among many others. [1]
In 1992, she was appointed by President Bush to the three-member President’s Cancer Panel to monitor the progress of the National Cancer Program and was selected by Vice President Quayle to serve as the chairman of a subcommittee to study the progress of breast cancer research and education in the United States and around the world. [6]
Brinker was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. [9]
Before she died, Susan begged her can-do little sib to help the half a million women worldwide who are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. [4]
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