Robert L. Elliott, M.D., Ph.D. Founder Dr. Elliott continues doing research to discover new treatments and drug therapies, and has implemented a team approach to bring total breast care to the patients. He collaborates on research projects with other scientists around the world. Most recently, he has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Norway, the largest cancer treatment and research facility in Europe, to share research data and collaborate closely in the development of new breast and prostate cancer vaccines and other therapeutic approaches. Dr. Elliott has spoken to medical audiences in the United States and Europe and has authored many papers and abstracts. He has also published a book, Breast Cancer, Anger at the Enemy, which deals with the lack of total breast care available for women. He shares his own frustration and heartaches of caring for dying cancer patients as they struggle for survival, and finally sends a message of hope as he and his research team search for a cure for breast cancer. Trained as a general surgeon, Dr. Elliott feels that breast care should be a specialty of itself, with patients being able to receive the highest quality of care from one physician who reads their mammograms, examines them, performs their surgery and administers their therapies. To advance this concept and to share his experience with other physicians like himself who specialize in breast care, Dr. Elliott founded the American Mastology Association. He currently serves as President of this society. In spite of a busy calendar of meetings and research, Dr. Elliott's first love is his patients. He devotes the majority of his time to our Foundation and to helping women overcome breast disease. Mary C. Elliott, M.D. Dr. Mary Elliott has been an integral part of the Mastology Center since it began in 1973. She is a Board-Certified Family Practitioner who has devoted the last l5 years entirely to primary breast health care. In addition to routine examinations, she teaches breast self-examination to patients, reviews their mammograms, does ultrasonography and does follow-up of patients with fibrocystic mastopathy and other breast conditions. Of course, her primary aim is the early detection of breast cancer in order to provide less devastating treatment and hopefully better outcomes. Dr. Elliott's principal roll is screening and examining new and old patients, but she also assists Dr. Robert Elliott in surgery. Jonathan F. Head, Ph.D. Dr. Head has been instrumental in the development of several of our new chemotherapy and immunotherapy programs. Dr. Head and Dr. Elliott are the co-developers and patent holders of one of the first patented autologous breast cancer vaccines in the United States. His major goal is to implement translational research - the movement of laboratory-developed technologies into the clinical setting. This is the taking of new therapies from cell culture to an accepted therapy for cancer patients. As a tumor cell biologist, Dr. Head's specialties include: Cell culture research Animal research Human clinical research Innovative chemotherapies Immunotherapy/cancer vaccines Oncogene and antisense research Tumor markers Hank & Sallie Burdine Born in the Mississippi Delta, Hank Burdine is no stranger to hard work. Since 1974 Hank has owned and operated several successful businesses related to construction industry. Headquartered in Greenville Mississippi from 1974 to 1994, Hank had an enormous impact on the thorough fares in the Delta area. Very active in the heavy construction industry, Hank Burdine and his father before him, has been instrumental in the infrastructure of Mississippi and especially the Delta area. Hank has owned and operated Greenville Ready Mix Concrete Co., Burdine Materials, Delta Contractors and F. W. Burdine Construction Company. In 1994, Hank and his family moved to Westcliffe, Colorado and called it home. When Sallie was diagnosed with cancer he was with Sallie every step of the way. Sallie and Hank decided to move to Destin FL to be closer to her parents in Jacksonville and Hanks' family in Mississippi. Hank presently calls Bluewater Bay, FL home and is raising their children as he runs his family farm in the Delta and continues to work in commercial real estate and development. The love Hank has for Sallie is immeasurable and through the foundation he is keeping Sallie's dream and spirit alive for the sake of all others that are touched by this disease. Sallie Astor Burdine Foundation | 17050 Medical Center Drive | Baton Rouge, LA 70816 | 225.755.1174 P | 225.755.1189 F