Jamie Graves “runs like the wind” for her dad
Dressed in bright orange from her tutu to her racing flats – you can’t miss Jamie Graves when she’s running. And while the outfit provides opportunities for Jamie, Director of State and Local Affairs at…
Dressed in bright orange from her tutu to her racing flats – you can’t miss Jamie Graves when she’s running. And while the outfit provides opportunities for Jamie, Director of State and Local Affairs at…
Ritchie Johnson is the president and founder of the Chris “CJ” Johnson Foundation and serves on the KCA’s Patient and Caregiver Advisory Council. How long have you been working with the KCA and what motivated…
Richard Tullier was driving on a road outside Da Nang, Vietnam when his jeep hit an explosive device that injured him badly. Tullier was a US Marine serving in the Vietnam War at the time…
Dr. Nicholas J. Vogelzang is a member of the KCA’s Board of Directors and is a genitourinary medical oncologist at the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada. We spoke with Dr. Vogelzang about serving on the…
After Michelle Picolo’s kidney cancer diagnosis last fall, her family and friends turned her world orange at every opportunity to show their support. At her office, where she works for the state of Louisiana, her…
Jamie Graves serves as Secretary of the KCA’s Board of Directors and is the Director of State & Local Affairs at BP America. We spoke with Jamie about her father, who died of kidney cancer,…
In Louisiana, more people get kidney cancer and more people die of kidney cancer compared to the rest of the United States. But Dr. Pedro Barata and his colleagues at Tulane University School of Medicine…
Ryan Natzke is a kidney cancer survivor and chairs the KCA’s Patient & Caregiver Advisory Council (PCAC). He is also a member of the KCA’s Board of Directors and is the Chief External Affairs Officer…
Dr. Ronald M. Bukowski has been a member of the KCA’s Board of Directors and the KCA’s Medical Steering committee since the organization’s inception. He currently works as the director of Bukowski Consulting, LLC, and…
Brian Moran’s kidney cancer diagnosis came as a complete surprise a few weeks before his 50th birthday last year. He’d had no symptoms. A physical therapist, who was treating him for an exercise-related lower back…