Katie Brown has worked in nonprofit and patient advocacy for over 15 years.
Currently, she is the Vice President Support and Survivorship Programs for LUNGevity, trained in Patient Navigation at Dr. Harold P. Freeman Institute in NYC and Oncology Patient Navigation through the George Washington University and is certified by AONN as an Oncology Patient Navigator. She is also the Foundation’s social media strategist and author of the book, Co-surviving Cancer.
Her transition from the corporate world to nonprofit happened in November of 2002 shortly after her father’s small cell lung cancer diagnosis. She is the co-creator of Lung Cancer Support Community (LCSC). That non profit's website was the first of its kind to provide active forums and an online lung cancer support network for lung cancer patients and their family members. Today the message boards are a service of LUNGevity Foundation and it has over 404,000 posts.
She is the founder of Breathe Deep Dallas-Ft Worth 5K, facilitated DFW’s first in-person lung cancer support group at the Arlington Cancer Center, community engagement chair of N. Texas Navigators, lobbied with Smoke Free Texas and for CPRIT, has been a local and national delegate for Livestrong 2006-2010, member of AONN and ACS-CAN and the cancer support ministry leader at her church.
For over a decade, Katie has been recognized with many awards and nominations for her work in nonprofit and patient advocacy and also for her work online.
She also contributes to articles & blogs with a special interest in survivorship, raising awareness, patient support, caregiving, advocacy training & the use of social media to promote good works. In her spare time she speaks at conferences, health fairs, hospitals, support groups, schools and events and routinely volunteers with other nonprofits and charities.
She has been a cancer survivor since June 1995 and a survivor of genetic stage 4 liver disease since 2015.
