William Dooley, MD, FACS
Board Chair

Awarded The Prof & G. Rainey Williams Chair
Department of Surgery and Women's Health, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City
(formerly, Director of the Breast Center, Johns Hopkins thru 2000)

I met Dr. Dooley in a newsgroup where we are both in and out of helping the users who were there for support regarding breast cancer. Most of the time, if I went in and found him there, I left, knowing someone was there for the users. Often I read his kind, brief, thorough answers to them, and most of all the empowerment he was able to impart to others by opening informing them of their rights as a patient, the meaning of medical terminology, the FDA regulations regarding who has the right to ownership of the original mammograms, etc. Of course, everyone there loved, "Our Dr. Dooley!"

We communicated a few times via e-mail regarding different things concerning breast cancer, patients who we were working with, etc. I came to the point of admiring this physician so much because of the time he gave to the Internet public - not through a self-serving web site, nor through advertising, but because he obviously cares. Dr. Dooley had done a great deal for women - and though he speaks kindly and with admiration for some of the other physicians we've discussed, it is this physician who deserves the accolades.

Personally, I can't think of another doctor who even thinks s/he has any extra time to help people worldwide - even though some take frequent vacations - many seem to be "overworked." It is with great honor that we welcome Dr. William Dooley to our leadership. At this time, 2002, Dr. Dooley is also being considered for the board of directors of the International Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. .

There will be more information from him soon - this is all subjective observations as with the others. But, I cannot wait to meet him! (Dr. Dooley and I spent several hours getting acquainted the week of December 5th, 2000, at the Annual Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio...we had both attended before but of course, never met. There are always thousands of physicians there. Just for this moment, I shall tell you that we are even more honored to have this incredibly well-known breast surgeon advising us. And, his intellectual pursuits to abolish deaths from breast cancer are most obvious, as are his ethics. His move to Southwest on January 1, 2001 once again proved to me that we all exist in a circular natural order: I began my own private practice in Oklahoma - in perinatal education and health. He will soon be writing a paper for a breastcancer web site!)

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