Leadership Lessons

Hadley Ford on partnering with Dr. John Cameron to build ProCure and bring proton therapy to Oklahoma City.

Episode 7 of The Cancer Project podcast.

Oklahoma State Representative Melissa Provenzano shares how a constituent’s story sparked landmark breast cancer screening legislation, and how her own cancer diagnosis fueled the fight to override the governor’s veto of House Bill 1389.

Ben Frank, oncology insurance expert and founder of Apollo and Unity, joins the podcast to expose how insurance companies deny cancer treatments, and the proven appeal strategies that fight back and win approvals for patients.

Jennifer Maggiore, Executive Director of NAPT, shares how her roots in oncology social work drive her mission to expand proton therapy access, and why the U.S. needs far more proton centers to serve the patients who need them.

Stephen Towe, CEO of Leo Cancer Care, shares how a physicist’s passion and a personal loss to cancer led him to build a startup aiming to make proton therapy, the gold standard in radiation treatment, accessible to patients worldwide by replacing massive, costly gantry systems with innovative upright patient positioning technology.

Mike Beckham, founder and CEO of Simple Modern, shares how a decade in campus ministry shaped his vision for a company built on radical generosity, including giving away 50,000 free tumblers to cancer patients going through chemotherapy.

Jennifer Watkins, Chronic Disease Coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Health, shares what every family needs to know about cancer screening, financial resources, and survivorship support, drawing on her own experience losing both parents to cancer and 25 years of public health work.