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DR. SUSAN LOVE Susan
M Love MD is an author, teacher, surgeon, researcher and activist. She graduated
from SUNY Downstate Medical School cum laude in 1974. She did her
surgical residency at Boston's Beth Israel hospital and was chief resident
in 1979. She opened a private practice in general surgery in 1980 as the
first women surgeon on the staff of Boston. In 1982 she joined the staff
of the Dana Farber Breast Evaluation Clinic, the first comprehensive multidisciplinary
center for breast care. In 1988 in the private sector she founded the Faulkner
Breast Center in Boston, the first facility in the country to include a
multidisciplinary, all woman staff with five surgeons, two clinical nurse
specialists, a plastic surgeon, radiation therapist and medical oncologist.
This program has received national recognition and continues to this day
combining patient care with a research program and fellowship in breast
surgery.
In 1992 Susan Love was recruited by UCLA to found a multidisciplinary, comprehensive program addressing all aspects of breast care. In the fall of 1994, a generous gift from Revlon led to the establishment of the UCLA/Revlon Breast Center. The Center, under Dr. Love's direction developed the first comprehensive practice guidelines on breast disease published in The Cancer Journal from Scientific American in January 1996. Within four years the Center was treating over 4000 women a year in a cost effective yet empowering way, leading McCalls magazine to designate the UCLA Medical Center as one of the top ten hospitals for women because of its expertise in breast cancer. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Love has been a leader in innovative approaches to the treatment of breast cancer, authoring many journal articles and co-authoring an Atlas of Surgical Techniques in Breast Surgery. (Lippincott, 1995) In addition to her role in educating medical students and other health care providers at Harvard Medical School and then UCLA, she has always felt a mission to educate the public. As a result she lectures extensively, appears in magazine interviews, and on the radio and television. Her book, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, has been called "one of the most important books in women's health in the last decade." The second, fully revised edition was released in June of 1995. Her book on menopause and the hormone dilemma, Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices About Menopause, was released by Random House in February of 1997. Susan Love has never been satisfied with the status quo. In her frustration at the lack of progress in breast cancer research she helped found the National Breast Cancer Coalition, a coalition of breast cancer advocacy groups formed to involve breast cancer patients and their supporters as advocates for action, advances and change. Through political action, this group has increased research funding for breast cancer from $90 million to $410 million in two years. Their 1993 petition drive led to the White House where Susan Love helped to deliver two million signatures to President Clinton, demanding a National Action Plan for Breast Cancer. Susan Love now is one of the co-chairs of that plan bringing together women scientists, business people and politicians in an unprecedented effort to stop this disease. In 1996, after twenty years of direct patient care, Dr. Love left clinical practice to devote more time to her basic research and her growing interest in women's health as an Adjunct Association Professor of Clinical Surgery at UCLA. She has a $500,000 grant from the Department of Defense to develop an intraductal approach to breast cancer. In addition, she is starting an independent think tank on women's health issues and ways to improve the health care of women in the managed care environment. Additional information about Dr. Love's work and ordering her books
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