title: Live your life out loud.
abstract: Susan Love, MD, MBA, has dedicated her professional life to the eradication of breast cancer. Author of the bestselling Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book, and Live a Little, Susan is Chief Visionary Officer of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation where she oversees an active research program centered on breast cancer cause and prevention. Susan co-founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition in the early 1990s, and she served on President Clinton's National Cancer Advisory Board from 1998-2004. Her recent projects include recruiting 377,000 women for the Love Army of Women, an Internet program that partners women and scientists to accelerate breast cancer research; and the online Health of Women Study designed to identify the cause of breast cancer. A recipient of six honorary doctorate degrees, Susan is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. In June of 2012, Susan was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia and was treated with an allogenic stem cell transplant.
authors.forename: Nanette
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gatrell
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rothblum
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history; D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000523:psychology