Susan Love
Susan Margaret Love (born February 9, 1948 ) is an American physician and surgeon, known for public breast cancer campaigns and as an expert on women's health in the United States.
life and career
Love attended the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore and then was a novice at a convent in New York City for two years before deciding to study medicine. She graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and then received her medical degree (MD) from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn . She completed her specialist training as a surgeon in 1979 at Beth Israel Hospital (as chief resident) and was then a surgeon there. From 1980 she was an instructor in surgery and from 1987 to 1992 assistant professor in clinical surgery at Harvard Medical School . In addition, from 1981 she was at the breast center of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and in 1988 she founded a breast cancer center in Boston, the Faulkner Breast Center, which exclusively employs women.
In 1990 the first edition of her bestseller book about the female breast appeared . In the same year she founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), of which she is director. They collected 26 million signatures for a national breast cancer campaign, which was implemented by Bill Clinton in 1993 , and achieved a large increase in research funding in breast cancer in the US through lobbying work. From 1998 to 2004, Love served on the President's National Cancer Advisory Board.
In 1992 she founded the Revlon / UCLA Breast Center, where she stayed until 1997. At the same time, she became adjunct professor of surgery at UCLA, later women's health. In 1995 she became director of the Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Institute, which changed its name to Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation changed based in Pacific Palisades and later Santa Monica . She finished her work as a surgeon in the late 1990s and is dedicated to the prevention and research of breast cancer. In her research, she is involved in the development of an early detection method for breast cancer, ductal lavage (washing of the milk ducts), in which the ducts of the mammary system are flushed and the cells of the fluid are examined for cancer. In 2014 she was involved in research on early detection (precursors of breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ, DCIS) using three-dimensional ultrasound methods of the milk ducts.
In 1998 she received the Walker Prize of the Boston Museum of Science, in 1999 the Alumni Achievement Award of her alma mater and in 2004 the Lila Wallis Woman's Health Award of the American Medical's Woman Association.
Fonts
- with Karen Lindsey: The Breast Book. What women want to know. Limes , dtv, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-8090-3003-1 . (English: Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book , Addison-Wesley, 1990, 5th edition 2010)
- with Karen Lindsey: Das Hormonbuch: What women should know about menopause , Fischer TB, 3rd edition, 2001, ISBN 3596146259 (English original Dr. Susan Love's Hormon Book: making informed choices about menopause , Random House 1997)
- with Alice Domar, Leigh Ann Hirschman Live a little!: breaking the rules won't break your health , New York, Crown, 2009
- with William Silen, W. Earle Matory Jr. Atlas of techniques in breast surgery , Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven Publishers 1996
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Love, Susan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Love, Susan M .; Love, Susan Margaret (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1948 |