Jasmine Kamboj, Medical Oncologist and Hematologist at Mayo Clinic, Podcast Editor and Host of the ‘Empowering Oncologists’ podcast at OncoDaily, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“What happens when 180 oncology professionals, from all 50 states and Washington DC, travel all the way to the Hill, to advocate for
- Research Funding
- FixPriorAuth
- Telehealth Access,
= a very successful Advocacy Summit, with over 230 congressional meetings.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Advocacy Summit honored Rep John Joyce and Rep Kim Schrier as congressional Champions for cancer Care and their leadership as physician law makers.
Ruiling Yuan awarded the Advocate of the Year award for her advocacy efforts – year round, on all ASCO platforms. Your dedication and commitment is commendable, and you rightfully said – this award belongs to your patients – WOW-
The awesome MN team (me, Wade Swenson, Vidya Kollu, Dr Justin Barnes (Mayo Rad Onc), Dr Katie Smith (Mayo Thoracic Oncologist and stellar researcher) had meetings with offices of
- Sen Klobuchar
- Sen Smith
- Rep McCollum
- Rep Craig
- Rep Finstad
- Rep Fischbach
What a successful and fulfilling Summit.
Thanks American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) leadership and staff for organising one of the most successful summit, as Ishwaria Subbiah, FASCO pointed out – we have to do Advocacy, 365 days a year.
Also, celebrated special birthday for our PAC Chair- none other than – Ed Balaban”
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