Friend for Life
cancer support network
Our Board
Friend for Life Board of Directors, 2024–2025
- Kristen Mellinger, Board President
Director, Underwriting and Policy Services, Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance
Joined 12/2019 - Mary Dickman, Treasurer
Strategic Project Manager, Baptist Health
Joined 2023 - Jason Howard, President Emeritus / Immediate Past President
Bristol Meyers Squibb
Joined 2014 - Bart Bushong, Nomination Committee Chair / President Emeritus
CEO, RFX Technologies
Joined 2008 - Karen Donahue, Immediate Past Treasurer
Vice President, Operations and Finance, Norton Cancer Institute & Norton Medical Group
Joined 2011 - Kenya Whitfield
Community Outreach Manager, Hosparus, Inc.
Joined 2016 - Jim Gaffney, MD
Retired, Chief Medical Officer, Hosparus
Joined 2018 - Janell Seeger, MD
Retired, Medical Oncologist
Joined 2018 - Laura Mitchell, APRN
Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Baptist Health Louisville
Joined 2018 - Scott DeGaris
Territory Sales Manager, Inari Medical
Joined 2020 - Raven Darko-Mensah, MSW. LCSW
Psych-Oncology Services, University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center
Joined 2024 - Robert J. Eger III
Professor of Accounting, Bellarmine University
Joined 2024 - Amy L Holthouser, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Pediatric Hospitalist, Norton Healthcare
Joined 2023 - Brittany Cook
System Vice President Neurosciences and Oncology, Norton Healthcare
Joined 2024