Komen names new CEO to replace Nancy Brinker

[TexasTowelie]

DALLAS (AP) — Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced Monday that it has a new CEO.

The breast cancer charity named Judith A. Salerno to replace founder Nancy Brinker, whose promise to her dying sister began a fundraising powerhouse that invested hundreds of millions of dollars in cancer research. Brinker announced last summer she would step down following an onslaught of criticism over Komen’s quickly reversed decision to stop giving grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings.

Salerno, 61, is executive director and chief operating officer of the Institute of Medicine, a prestigious independent group that advises the government and private sector about health and science.

“Komen’s commitment has helped countless numbers of low-income and medically underserved women and men get care they might otherwise have gone without, and Komen’s research program is one of the most highly respected in the nation,” Salerno said in a statement released by Komen.

More at http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20130617-komen-names-new-ceo-to-replace-nancy-brinker.ece .

[rurallib]

1. as long as Nancy Brinker has anything to do with Komen

or draws even a nickel from them we will have nothing to do with Komen.
Ms. Salerno has some serious fence mending to do.

[hollysmom]

2. She would have better kept her promise to her sister if she kept the focus on cancer

and not on abortion. Politicize a charity and risk consequences.