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CanCare Board

CanCare celebrates the gift of leadership and guidance brought to us through the members of our Board of Directors. These dedicated executives strive to spread CanCare’s message of Hope throughout the community and offer their knowledge, experience and support to ensure CanCare’s mission of improving the quality of life of cancer patients and their families is fulfilled.

As a fundamental component of CanCare, the Friends Boards consist of the Friends of CanCare Board, the Friends Advisory Board and the Young Friends of CanCare Board. These three groups work to raise awareness and funds for CanCare through special events and community outreach. The Friends of CanCare and the Friends Advisory Board co-host CanCare’s National Cancer Survivors Day Luncheon each year. The Friends also organize runners (known as Team CanCare) for the Houston Marathon, run the FUNFARE Tennis Tournament and host the Annual CanCare Golf Classic at Lakeside Country Club.

The Young Friends of CanCare, a group of young professionals in their 20’s and 30’s, have made great strides since their founding in 2004. The group hosts an annual crawfish boil as a fundraiser and has social events throughout the year to promote awareness about cancer to their generation.

CanCare’s Board of Representatives members act as liaisons between CanCare and our member congregations to help spread CanCare’s message of Hope and share our services with others in their congregations as well as those within our community. The CanCare Board of Representatives also participates in the Annual Interfaith Clergy Luncheon.


CanCare Board of Directors
Wil C. Uecker, Ph.D., Chair
Richard A. Hollar, Treasurer
Patrick J. Kiley, Secretary
Jill McDonald Pavlas, Legal Counsel
Patricia Hogan-Korge, M.A., Lifetime Director
Richard A. Lindermanis, Lifetime Director
F. Max Schuette, Lifetime Director
Shelaghmichael C. Brown
T. Jay Collins
Thomas V. Costantino
Harvey G. Garza
William W. Hall, Jr.
Lynn Adams Hancock
B. Cory Hawryluk
John A. Holland
Liza Kutner
Chad N. Lyons
John D. Miner
Jay Morris, M.D.
Emily Prus
Hal B. Sharp, AIA, LEED AP

Friends of CanCare Board of Directors
Emily Prus, President
Cynthia Bryant
Linda Case
Leslie Coleman
Phyllis Dent
Brooke Drake
Dixie Evans
Pat Hogan-Korge
Jan LaRocco
Nan McCreary
Gretchen Odum
Mary Jane Roeder
Jamie Sengbusch
Carol Surles
Melanie Turzillo
Dixie Ward

Friends of CanCare Advisory Board
Lynn Adams Hancock, Chair
Ginger Blanton
Jason Cain
Mary Chavanne-Martin
Jennifer Cunningham
Marilyn Drane
J. Damien Garza
Kathy Garza
Alicia Jansen
Dwight Keys
Linnea Kob
Mindy Lawrence
Susie Loredo
Kerry McKay
Anne Reed
Renee Renfroe
Doug Reuschel
Suzanne Thomas
Jennifer Tweeton
Michael D. Westmoreland, Pharm.D., BCOP
Nancy Wilfong
Jessica Wilt-Garza

Young Friends of CanCare Board of Directors
Chad Lyons, Chair
Lauren Box
Beth Bryant
Jordan Buckalew
Kendall Buckalew
Kyle Callender
Lauren Diamond
Taylor Edwards
Burton Hanson
William Jochetz
Sergio Marazita
Kelly McIver
Whitney Rape
Jhonathan Shaikh
Michael Sieger
Shauna Stern
Sonya Villamagna

CanCare Medical Advisory Board
Robert A. Behar, M.D.
Bonnie S. Glisson, M.D.
Daniel E. Lehane, M.D.
Manoj Reddy, M.D.
Edgardo Rivera, M.D. 

CanCare Board of Representatives
Liza Kutner, Chair
Dorothy Abbott
Darlene Alexander
Dianne Gautier Anderson
Marcia Barham
Gloria Barnes
Philip David Belanger
Stacei Bible
Rachel G. Birney
Marty R. Buck
Jeanne Byrd
Bitsy Cleveland
Bernard “Sonny” Conner
Sharon D. Cooper, R.N.
Ruth M. Davies
The Rev. Mrs. Janet C. Dennard
Nancy D. Devlin
Rita J. Donaldson
Helen Duesing
Nila Fenton
Donna Q. Fong
Connie Marie Fowler
Frances S. Franklin
Roberta D. Ganek
Jill Gentsch
Rabbi Dan M. Gordon
David Harris
Schottsie Hill
Donna Hyde
David Johnson
Lisa Johnson
The Rev. Dr. Robert Joiner, Jr.
Elizabeth Kabat
Leah Katz
Frances S. Kittrell
Cindi D. Kuykendall
Gary P. Lamb
Larry Latimer
Jim LeBlanc
John Leslie, Sr.
Sarah C. McCall
Paul G. Meyer
The Rev. Ms. Kim Meyers
Marian A. Murphree
John W. Overton
Sally H. Powell
Emily Prus
Virginia Rogers
Betsy Schauer
Roger Schuelke
Lynn H. Schulenberg
Stephen H. Schultheis
Russell K. Schulze II
The Rev. Mrs. Lillie Seals
Joann Seuser
Andrew E. Smith
Patricia B. Stone
Christene Tinsley
Donna A. Vokaty
Mikki Wunderle

CanCare of Houston Foundation
Board of Trustees
Warren E. Bright
Richard A. Hollar
Kim S. Trimble
Nancy N. Tucker


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Wil C. Uecker, Ph.D.
Chair, Board of Directors