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Take Action: SGO Needs Your Help on Two Important Requests

Oppose Medicaid Cuts

Before Memorial Day, the House advanced the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), the Republicans’ reconciliation package that includes a number of policies, including cutting approximately $700 billion from the Medicaid program in the next decade with roughly 7.6 million Americans expected to lose coverage. Specifically, the policies included in the package would impose mandatory work requirements and increase costs for states.
The bill is now headed to the Senate where it is expected to face many challenges and potential changes. There are many Republican Senators who have expressed concern about the Medicaid cuts in the House package, including Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
As a gynecologic oncologist, you know firsthand how critical Medicaid coverage is in ensuring timely diagnosis, treatment, and care for individuals diagnosed with gynecologic cancers. Please consider contacting your senators today and urge them to oppose cuts to the Medicaid program that may limit access to care for individuals with gynecologic cancers!

 

Ask Your Member to Support Legislation to Restore Funding to the Department of Defense CDMRP

On March 14, Congress passed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through September 30. The CR drastically reduces funding for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) from $1.5 billion to $650 million in 2025 – a 57 percent cut from the FY 2024 enacted levels. Cuts of this magnitude could significantly disrupt research into new therapeutics for diseases, including gynecologic cancers, that impact the health of our nation’s armed services, as well as veterans, military families, and the general public.
SGO needs your help to urge members of Congress to support legislation that would restore full funding to the CDMRP, protecting the Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) and the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Programs (PRCRP) which fund crucial gynecologic cancer research in support of service members, veterans, their families, and the public. Please take action now and ask your members of Congress to support bipartisan legislation to restore funding to the CDMRP and protect high-impact research for gynecologic cancers.

 

Capitol Hill Day

SGO’s Capitol Hill Day is an opportunity for its SGO Congressional Ambassadors and our patient advocate partners to educate Members of Congress on gynecologic cancer, inform them about what is happening in their home state or district, and present solutions to current challenges in gynecologic cancer care. SGO advocates share patient care experiences, thank offices for breakthroughs and successes made possible by prior year’s efforts, and explain what Congress can do to continue to support progress toward our shared vision of eradicating gynecologic cancers.

For questions about Capitol Hill Day or how to participate in an upcoming event, please contact Katie Martino, SGO Senior Manager of Governance and Clinical Practice.

Read about past Capitol Hill Day events in the links below, and review more photos from past events here.

 

Health Policy & Legislative Affairs Committee

Ryan Spencer, MD, MS, Chair
Allison Saiz, MD, Vice Chair
Rana Aliani, MD
Danika Barry, MD, MPH, MPP
Susan Folsom, MD
Tilley Jenkins Vogel, MD
Emily MacArthur, MD
Larissa Mattei, MD
Rachel Miller-Garcia

 

Marisa Moroney, MD
Anna Jo Smith, MD, MPH
Monica Avila, MD
Vanessa Hill, MPH
Aparna Kailasam, MD
John Wallbillich, MD
Mark Shahin, MD, HPSE Chair
Emily Ko, MD, MSCR, Board Liaison

Coding & Reimbursement Committee

Kevin Schuler, MD, MBA, Chair
Stephen Bush, MD, Vice Chair
Allison Barrie, MD
Leslie Bradford, MD
Lee-may Chen, MD
Carolyn Haunschild, MD
Amelia Jernigan, MD
Kimberly Levinson, MD, MPH
Andreea Newtson, MD

 

Kaitlin Nicholson, MD
Sameer Sharma, MD, MBA
Kristin Taylor, MD
Bridget Toomey, MS, CPC
Katherine Tucker, MD
Kristien Zeligs, MD
Mark Shahin, MD, HPSE Chair
Emily Ko, MD, MSCR, Board Liaison

Quality Care Committee

Margaret Liang, MD, Chair
Emma Barber, MD, Vice Chair
Benjamin Albright, MD, MS
Zenas Chang, MD
Ashley Haggerty, MD, MSCE
Courtney Penn, MD
Courtney Riedinger, MD

 

Katherine Hicks-Courant, MD
Katharine Esselen, MD, MBA
Rachel Mojdehbakhsh, MD
Sarah Paraghamian, MD
Jolyn Taylor, MD, MPH
Mark Shahin, MD, HPSE Chair
Emily Ko, MD, MSCR, Board Liaison

Governance and Clinical  Practice Staff Contacts

JESSICA OLDHAM

Director of Governance and Clinical Practice
CONTACT JESSICA

 

KATIE MARTINO, MPH, CPH

Senior Manager of Governance and Clinical Practice

CONTACT KATIE

 

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