Executive Director
National Lung Cancer Partnership
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Regina Vidaver is the Executive Director of the National Lung Cancer Partnership, a group of leading doctors, researchers, patient advocates, and lung cancer survivors who are working together to improve treatments for lung cancer patients. The Partnership is dedicated to raising public awareness of the disease and generating funding for lung cancer research.

In her tenure at the Partnership, Dr. Vidaver has served on a number of cancer, health, and health policy committees. Notably, she was chosen to chair the inaugural Lung Cancer Research Program Integration Panel funded by the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, and continues to serve on the Integration Panel as Past- Chair. Dr. Vidaver serves as a patient advocate on the Thoracic Malignancy Steering Committee, and Co-chairs the Patient Advocate Steering Committee of the National Cancer Institute. She is Chair-Elect of the Patient Advisory Roundtable of the American Thoracic Society, and a member of the Education Committee. She serves as a member of the Alliance for Quality Psychosocial Cancer Care, the Cancer Leadership Council, and the Global Lung Cancer Coalition. Dr. Vidaver is a patient advocate on Genentech’s Avastin Registry: Investigation of Efficacy of Safety (ARIES) Steering Committee, and the CAP/IASLC/AMP Lung Cancer Biomarkers Advisory Panel. In addition, she is a founding member of the Lung Cancer Action Network (LungCAN), which strives to bring together the various non-profit organizations working to combat lung cancer.

Prior to her appointment with the Partnership, Dr. Vidaver served as a Scientific Programs Manager at the Society for Women’s Health Research in Washington, DC, where she oversaw programs focused on sex differences in biology. Dr. Vidaver was lead author on a seminal report showing that substantial portions of NIH-funded research had not analyzed data by sex of the subjects, contrary to Federal mandate. She also served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Engineering Fellow at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA.

Dr. Vidaver holds a PhD in cellular & molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and a BA in biology from Amherst College in Amherst, MA.