Community Outreach Program

The Community Relations office in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine develops and plans community relations programs (including special events, fundraising and outreach projects) and educational materials to build awareness about risk factors and symptoms of ovarian cancer and other gynecologic cancers, and raise funds for associated research programs in the department.

The Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program and the Uterine Cancer Research Program benefit from community relations events throughout the year.

If you or your organization would like to receive information, get involved with upcoming events or if you would like to arrange for a speaker on the topic of gynecologic cancer, please e-mail the Program Manager of Community Relations and Development, Pamela Weems, at GynOncCommunityRelations@mdanderson.org or call 713-792-2765.

MD Anderson gynecologic oncology faculty members support and participate in the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation's "Race To End Women's Cancer" held in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, November 8, 2009. From left: Drs. Wong, Schmandt, Gershenson, Wolf, Mok, Lu and Coleman.

On October 29, 2010, the inaugural San Antonio A Conversation with a Living Legend event was hosted benefiting the Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program. Featured in the photo from left: event chairs, Paula and Clyde Johnson III, co-directors of the Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program, Anil Sood, M.D., and Judith Wolf, M.D., President of MD Anderson Cancer Center, John Mendelsohn, M.D., event chairs, Kim and Clyde Johnson IV, former CNN president and Los Angeles Times publisher, Tom Johnson and the former President of Mexico, the Honorable Vicente Fox and his wife.
Photo by Marks Moore.

Each year, ovarian cancer survivors along with family and friends gather at The Mad Potter- Paint Your Own Pottery Studios to design Race Day awards given at Sprint for Life.