President
Lodovico Balducci, MD
Vice President/President Elect
Richard K. Spence, MD
Immediate Past President
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Secretary/Treasurer
Andrew Artz, MD, MS
At-Large Members
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP
William B. Ershler, MD
Members
Inder Anand, MD, FRCP, DPHIL
Jeffrey S. Berns, MD
Richard D. Brasington, Jr., MD
Paul W. Crawford, MD
Arnold J. Friedman, MD
Daniel E. Furst, MD
Wayne Levy, MD
Janet B. McGill, MD
Lillian M. Nail, PhD, RN, FAAN
Jerry L. Spivak, MD
Lloyd P. Van Winkle, MD
Bradley A. Warady, MD
Roslyn Yomtovian, MD
Lillian M. Nail, PhD, RN, FAAN
NAAC At-Large Member
Rawlinson Distinguished Professor of Nursing
Senior Scientist School of Nursing
Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science Univ.
Specialty: Cancer Treatment
Lillian Nail is the Dr. May E. Rawlinson Distinguished Professor and Senior Scientist at the School of Nursing and a member of the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute in Portland.
Dr. Nail earned her PhD in nursing from the University of Rochester in New York. Her research focuses on coping with cancer treatment and cancer risk, and includes work on side effects of cancer treatment. She is the principal investigator on a study examining coping processes in women who are completing radiation treatment for breast cancer, a co-investigator on a study testing the effects of an energy conservation intervention on fatigue experienced with cancer treatment, and the principal investigator for the Center for Research on Symptom Management in Life-Threatening Illness.
Dr. Nail holds a 5-year career development award from the National Cancer Institute for clinical research development in supportive care. Dr. Nail's work focuses on understanding the experience of cancer from the perspective of the person experiencing the illness. As a survivor of two different types of cancer, she is able to articulate the gaps between what is "known" about the patient experience and what health care providers and family members assume to be the experience. She has served on scientific review committees for the Oncology Nursing Society, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Cancer Society.
Dr. Nail's recent awards include the 2002 Oncology Nursing Society Distinguished Researcher Award and the 2002 Rochester Distinguished Scholar Award. She is well known for her work on making cancer treatment-related fatigue visible to health care providers and educating consumers about this problem. She is a popular speaker these issues in the United States and abroad, and she has contributed nine book chapters and more than 40 journal articles to the medical literature.