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Take Action: SGO Needs Your Help on Two Important Requests

 

Ask Your Member to Support Legislation to Restore Funding to the Department of Defense CDMRP

On March 14, Congress passed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through September 30. The CR drastically reduces funding for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) from $1.5 billion to $650 million in 2025 – a 57 percent cut from the FY 2024 enacted levels. Cuts of this magnitude could significantly disrupt research into new therapeutics for diseases, including gynecologic cancers, that impact the health of our nation’s armed services, as well as veterans, military families, and the general public.
SGO needs your help to urge members of Congress to support legislation that would restore full funding to the CDMRP, protecting the Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) and the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Programs (PRCRP) which fund crucial gynecologic cancer research in support of service members, veterans, their families, and the public. Please take action now and ask your members of Congress to support bipartisan legislation to restore funding to the CDMRP and protect high-impact research for gynecologic cancers.

 

 

Ask Your Member to Sign the Dear Colleague in Support of the Creation of an Endometrial Cancer Research Program

The House is beginning its work on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 appropriations bills, including the bill that funds the Department of Defense (DoD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP). Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) is leading a Dear Colleague letter requesting for the establishment of a separate line-item for an endometrial cancer research program with $10 million in initial appropriations.
SGO needs your help to get members of the House of Representatives to sign this Dear Colleague letter in support of this request. Please take action now and ask your representative to sign this letter requesting $10 million for the establishment of a separate line-item for an endometrial cancer research program within the DoD CDMRP.

Capitol Hill Day

SGO’s Capitol Hill Day is an opportunity for its SGO Congressional Ambassadors and our patient advocate partners to educate Members of Congress on gynecologic cancer, inform them about what is happening in their home state or district, and present solutions to current challenges in gynecologic cancer care. SGO advocates share patient care experiences, thank offices for breakthroughs and successes made possible by prior year’s efforts, and explain what Congress can do to continue to support progress toward our shared vision of eradicating gynecologic cancers.

For questions about Capitol Hill Day or how to participate in an upcoming event, please contact Katie Martino, SGO Senior Manager of Governance and Clinical Practice.

Read about past Capitol Hill Day events in the links below, and review more photos from past events here.

 

Health, Policy, & Socioeconomic Committee: Legislative Affairs Subcommittee

Ryan Spencer, MD, MS, Chair
Allison Saiz, MD, Vice Chair
Rana Aliani, MD
Monica Avila, MD MPH
Vanessa Hill, MPH
Tilley Jenkins Vogel, MD

Aparna Kailasam, MD, MBA
Emily MacArthur, MD
Larissa Mattei, MD
Marisa Moroney, MD
Anna Jo Smith, MD, MPH
John Wallbillich, MD
Emily Ko, MD, MSCR, HPSE Chair
Mark Shahin, MD, FACOG, FACS, HPSE Vice Chair
Navya Nair, MD, MPH, Board Liaison
Jessica Oldham, Staff Liaison
Katie Martino, MPH, CPH, Staff Liaison

Health, Policy, & Socioeconomic Committee: Coding & Reimbursement Subcommittee

David Holtz, MD, Chair
Kevin Schuler, MD, MBA, Vice Chair
Allison Barrie, MD
Leslie Bradford, MD
James Burke, II, MD
Stephen Bush, MD
Lee-May Chen, MD
Carolyn Haunschild, MD
Kimberly Levinson, MD, MPH

Spyridon Mastroyannis, MD, MSCE
Kaitlin Nicholson, MD
Sameer Sharma, MD, MBA
Rebekah Summey, MD
Kristin Taylor, MD
Bridget Toomey, MS, CPC
Katherine Tucker, MD
Kristen Zeligs, MD
Emily Ko, MD, MSCR, HPSE Chair
Mark Shahin, MD, FACOG, FACS, HPSE Vice Chair
Navya Nair, MD, MPH, Board Liaison
Jessica Oldham, Staff Liaison
Katie Martino, MPH, CPH, Staff Liaison

Health, Policy, & Socioeconomic Committee: Payment Reform & Quality Care Subcommittee

Margaret Liang, MD Chair
Emma Barber, MD, Vice Chair
Rinki Agarwal, MD
Benjamin Albright, MD, MS
Leslie Boyd, MD
Stephanie Cham, MD
Jhalak Dholakia, MD
Katharine Esselen, MD, MBA
Ashley Haggerty, MD, MSCE
Katherine Hicks-Courant, MD, MSHP

Katherine Kurnit, MD
Michelle Kuznicki, MD
Sarah Lee, MD
Margaret Liang, MD
Chrissy Liu, MD
Haley Moss, MD, MBA
Luis Padilla-Paz, MD
Sarah Paraghamian, MD
Courtney Penn, MD
Courtney Riedinger, MD
Emily Ko, MD, MSCR, HPSE Chair
Mark Shahin, MD, FACOG, FACS, HPSE Vice Chair
Navya Nair, MD, MPH, Board Liaison
Jessica Oldham, Staff Liaison
Katie Martino, MPH, CPH, Staff Liaison

Governance and Clinical  Practice Staff Contacts

JESSICA OLDHAM

Director of Governance and Clinical Practice
CONTACT JESSICA

 

KATIE MARTINO, MPH, CPH

Senior Manager of Governance and Clinical Practice

CONTACT KATIE

 

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