Dr. Durado Brooks has served as the director of prostate and colorectal cancers at the American Cancer Society’s National Home Office since 2000.  In this role he is involved in creating and implementing strategies to improve the prevention and early detection of prostate and colorectal cancer. Dr. Brooks practiced primary care internal medicine in community health centers,  in Ohio and later in Dallas, TX. Dr. Brooks earned his MPH degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. www.cancer.org

Carolyn R. Aldigé is president of the Prevent Cancer Foundation, a national non-profit organization she founded in 1985 in memory of her father, Edward P. Richardson, who died of cancer one year earlier. Prevent Cancer has provided more than $120 million in support of its mission: cancer prevention and early detection through research, education, community-based programs and advocacy, and has become nationally recognized as a leader in the fight against cancer through prevention. www.preventcaner.org