Patients Are Looking For a Community: How Lung Cancer Advocacy Works

For 2022's National Patient Recognition Week, Elridge Proctor of the Go2 Foundation sits down with Heidi and Pierre Onda of the White Ribbon Project and Nichelle Stigger from LUNGevity to discuss how they went from patient to patient advocates and ways those without lung cancer can use their voices for change.

Elridge Proctor, MPA, is the Senior Director for Government Affairs and Public Policy at the Go2 Foundation for Lung Cancer, with over 15 years of experience in patient advocacy and non-profit work. Heidi Onda, MS, is a health educator and fitness trainer as well as a lung cancer survivor. She and her husband Pierre Onda, MD, MPH, founded "The White Ribbon Project" in 2020 to promote awareness and the idea that “anyone with lungs can get lung cancer.” Nichelle Stigger is a middle school teacher and Board Member for the LUNGevity Foundation who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2016.    

As a followup to the National Lung Cancer Roundtable and American College of Radiology’s 2021 webinar series, the “Power of Partnerships” limited podcast series will feature conversations currently happening in the world of lung cancer with the people pushing the field into the future.

Additional information on this topic, as well as the resources mentioned during the episode, can be found at https://www.acr.org/Clinical-Resources/Lung-Cancer-Screening-Resources.