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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

JBP Accounting

Made to Maximize

Social Media Team

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

Kay Rawlins

Melissa Wiggins

Co-Founder | Board Member

Lisa Ramey

Brian Hanafin

Whitney Brittain

Liz Chiaffredo

Greg Gill

Josh Kestler

Brian Margolis

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, MD

SAB Chair, Professor of Pediatrics

W. Thomas Cash, MD, MSC

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist

James Geller, MD

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

Tanja Gruber, MD

Chief of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation

Cassie Kline, MD, MAS

Director, Neurooncology Clinical Research

Kathleen Sakamoto, PhD, MD

Professor, Pediatrics – Hematology & Oncology

Sarah Tasian, MD

Chief of the Hematologic Malignancies

David Teachey, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Why We Are Cannonball Kids’ cancer

It Started with Cannon!

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