Talk:Ellen V. Sigal

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Please update Ellen V. Sigal's biography page to the following:

Ellen V. Sigal (born July 18, 1943) is an American cancer policy advocate and nonprofit executive. She is the chairperson and founder of Friends of Cancer Research (Friends).1

Education She grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and received her B.A. and master’s degrees from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in Russian History from Rutgers University.2,3

Career Upon graduation and marrying Gerry Sigal, Ellen and Gerry decided to start their own construction business in 1977, called Sigal Construction.4 Dr. Sigal went on to build a career in commercial real estate development through her firm, Sigal Development.2 Sigal Development funded and developed multiple projects in the Washington and mid-Atlantic regions.

Advocacy After losing her sister to breast cancer, Dr. Sigal founded Friends in 1996 to mark the 25th anniversary of the National Cancer Act.5,6,7 Friends describes itself as “an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC that drives collaboration among partners from every healthcare sector to power advances in science, policy, and regulation that speed life-saving treatments to patients.” For more than two decades, Friends has played a key role in introducing policies that facilitate patients’ access to safe and affordable care.8,9

Board Memberships Dr. Sigal serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Reagan-Udall Foundation, an independent not-for-profit corporation that collaborates with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to “modernize medical, veterinary, food, food ingredient, and cosmetic product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance product safety.”10,11,12,13 She also serves on the Board of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, under the Public-Private Partnerships Committee.3

In 2010, Dr. Sigal was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) as a representative of patients and health consumers and reappointed in 2016 to another six-year term.14

Additionally, in 2016 Dr. Sigal was named to Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel, the Parker Institute for Immunotherapy Advisory Group and joined the inaugural board of advisors for the George Washington University’s Milken Institute of Public Health.15

She also holds leadership positions with many academic health centers and public policy/cancer advocacy organizations including: MD Anderson Cancer Center External Advisory Board, the Duke University Cancer Center Board of Overseers, and The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Advisory Council. 16,17,18,19

She is married with two children, and lives with her husband in Washington, DC.

1. Friends of Cancer Research. (2019). Ellen V. Sigal. [online] Available at: https://www.focr.org/bios/ellen-sigal [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 2. White, S. (2004). Ellen Sigal: A search for passion. [online] Bizjournals.com. Available at: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2004/04/12/story8.html [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 3. Fnih.org. (2019). Ellen V. Sigal, Ph.D. | FNIH. [online] Available at: https://fnih.org/about/directors/ellen-sigal [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 4. LinkedIn. (n.d.). About SIGAL Construction Corporation. [online] Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sigal-construction-corporation/about/ [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 5. Lungcancernews.org. (n.d.). Ellen V. Sigal, PhD: Leading the Cancer Research Advocacy Community. [online] Available at: http://www.lungcancernews.org/2017/08/01/ellen-v-sigal-phd-leading-the-cancer-research-advocacy-community/ [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 6. En.wikipedia.org. (n.d.). Friends of Cancer Research. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Cancer_Research [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 7. National Cancer Institute. (2016). National Cancer Act of 1971. [online] Available at: https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/legislative/history/national-cancer-act-1971 [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 8. Friends of Cancer Research. (n.d.). About Friends. [online] Available at: https://www.focr.org/about-friends [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 9. Sigal, E. (2019). We are cutting government regulation at the expense of patients' lives. [online] The Hill. Available at: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/439342-we-are-cutting-government-regulation-at-the-expense-of-patients-lives [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 10. Swetlitz, I. (2019). Questions about funding, purpose loom over an FDA-affiliated foundation - STAT. [online] STAT. Available at: https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/09/reagan-udall-foundation-struggles/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2019]. 11. Ascopost.com. (2019). Reagan-Udall Foundation Announces Appointments of Ellen V. Sigal, PhD, and Richard L. Schilsky, MD - The ASCO Post. [online] Available at: https://www.ascopost.com/issues/december-10-2016/reagan-udall-foundation-announces-appointments-of-ellen-v-sigal-phd-and-richard-l-schilsky-md/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2019]. 12. Physician's Weekly. (2019). ASCO 2019: FDA Launches Project Facilitate to Ease Access to Novel Agents. [online] Available at: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/asco-fda-launches-project-facilitate-to-ease-access-to-novel-agents/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2019]. 13. Kahl, K. (2019). FDA's Project Facilitate Will Assist Requested Access to Unapproved Cancer Therapies. [online] Cure Today. Available at: https://www.curetoday.com/conferences/asco-2019/fdas-project-facilitate-will-assist-requested-access-to-unapproved-cancer-therapies [Accessed 25 Oct. 2019]. 14. National Cancer Institute. (2016). National Cancer Act of 1971. [online] Available at: https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/legislative/history/national-cancer-act-1971 [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019]. 15. Ong, M. (2017). Ellen Sigal: This is not a grasstops issue anymore, this is really grassroots – The Cancer Letter. [online] Cancerletter.com. Available at: https://cancerletter.com/articles/20170317_4/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2019]. 16. “Ellen V. Sigal, PhD.” American Association for Cancer Research, www.aacr.org/Funding/Pages/scientific-advisory-committee-detail.aspx?ItemID=23. 17. “MD Anderson Cancer Center Annual Report 2013.” MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2013, www.mdanderson.org/documents/publications/annual-report/Faculty2013.pdf. 18. Board of Advisors. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2019, from http://dukecancerinstitute.org/board-advisors. 19. Brightwell, J. (2019, May 23). National Advisory Board. Retrieved October 29, 2019, from https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/kimmel_cancer_center/our_center/advisory_council.html.

Aturbow (talk) 21:12, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm on the fence as to whether the bio subject and/or her organization (Friends of Cancer Research [FCR]) are notable, or that Sigal is notable independently from FCR. It seems that the argument for Sigal's notability would be based on her founding FCR, but if that's the case, then the questions arise (a) is the institute notable and (b) if it is, it might make more sense to have an article on FCR rather than on Sigal. If the institute is not notable, then neither is Sigal. There are a few quotes in published articles from Sigal, but those are not very significant, and many/some of the other sources are WP:SPS. The career details seem way OT as well. Also, the proposed content reads like WP:RESUME and WP:PROMO rather than being written for an encyclopedia audience. Rhode Island Red (talk) 23:57, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply 29-OCT-2019
Regards, Spintendo  04:34, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) There are concerns that the subject's organization may not be notable, which may or may not affect this article's notability.
 * 2) The proposed content reads as a resume.
 * 3) The COI editor has not made the requisite disclosures. If the COI editor receives, or expects to receive, compensation for any contribution they make, they must disclose their employer, client, and affiliation to comply with Wikipedia's terms of use and the policy on paid editing.