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Our mission is to

fund innovative, accessible research for children fighting cancer to provide better treatments and quality of life, and to educate for change

Our vision is to

create cures for all childhood cancers.

Staff

CKc staff are dedicated nonprofit professionals with a deep passion to cure childhood cancer.

Dana Nichols

Executive Director

Kylie Briggs

Special Events Manager

Meghan Hedrick

Development Manager

Matt Kopkin

Grants Administrator

Valerie Solomon

Director of Program Impact

Contractors

CKc hires experienced and dedicated contractors to provided the services needed to best benefit our mission.

BSD Tech

Fridenmaker Consulting

Jarel Communications

Public Relations

Board Of Directors

Board members volunteer their time, talent, and treasure to support CKc’s mission to fund better, less-toxic, life-saving treatment options for kids with cancer.

Bruce Parker

Bob Szafranski

Melissa Wiggins

Co-Founder | Board Member

Lisa Ramey

Brian Hanafin

Shawn Carlin

Amy Fields

Leila Hunter

Josh Kestler

Clifton Scott

Rosemary Stuart

Scientific Advisory Board

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members are experts in the field of pediatric cancer research who volunteer their time to review and score grant applications.

Gregory Friedman

Professor of Pediatrics

Kevin Bielamowicz, MD

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist

W. Thomas Cash, MD, MSC

Program Director and Clinical Director (ELG)-Solid Tumor

Girish Dhall, MD

Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology

James Geller, MD

Director – Liver, Kidney and Retinoblastoma Programs, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute

Tanja Gruber, MD

Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation

Meenakshi Hegde, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Cassie Kline, MD, MAS

Director, Neurooncology Clinical Research

Tobey MacDonald, MD

Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program

Edward Prochownik, MD, PhD

Paul C. Gaffney Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Why We Are Cannonball Kids’ cancer

It Started with Cannon!

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