Find Peer Support
If you’ve recently been diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer, we’re here to help.
OCRA’s Woman to Woman program connects newly-diagnosed women like you with trained survivor mentors who understand what you’re going through.
Woman to Woman mentors are available through our National Program and through the many local programs listed below. If you do not see a program near you in the list below, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page to be matched with a national mentor.
Woman to Woman Program Sites
Founding Program Site
The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY
Physician Champion: Stephanie Blank, MD
Program Coordinator: Rachel Justus, LCSW and Jilian Levinson LCSW, OSW-C
Active OCRA Program Sites
Alabama
- Laura Crandall Brown Foundation – Birmingham, AL
Physician Champion: Monjri Shah, MD
Program Coordinator: Betsy Fetner
Colorado
- Sue’s Gift – Colorado Springs, CO
Physician Champion: Dirk Pikaart, MD
Program Coordinator: Sherry Martin
Connecticut
- Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven – New Haven, CT
Physician Champion: Elena Ratner, MD
Program Coordinator: Ruth Ann Ornstein
Florida
- University of Miami – Miami, FL
Physician Champion: Matthew Schlumbrecht, MD
Program Coordinator: Teresa Neira, PhD, LCSW
Georgia
- Northside Hospital – Atlanta, GA
Physician Champion: Guilherme Henrique C. Cantuaria, MD, PhD
Program Coordinator: Kymberly Duncan
Illinois
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital – Chicago, IL
Physician Champion: Emily Hinchcliff
Program Coordinator: Dara Belarmino
Kansas
- University of Kansas Cancer Center – Kansas City, KS
Physician Champion: Lori Spoozak, M.D., MHS, FACOG
Program Coordinators: Sarah Clouse RN, MSN and Malia Opat, LMSW
Massachusetts
- Dana Farber Cancer Center** – Boston, MA
Physician Champion: Nadine McCleary, MD, MPH
Program Coordinator: Maritza Nassif and Rebecca Spelman
**this program is a partnership with Dana Farber’s One to One program
- Below the Belt Women’s Cancer Outreach* – Barnstable, MA
Program Coordinator: Diane Riche
Maryland
- Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD
Physician Champion: Stephanie Wethington, MD
Program Coordinator: Nancy Farruggia
Mississippi
- St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital – Jackson, MS
Physician Champion: Christen Haygood, MD
Program Coordinator:Jennifer Boone, RN, BSN, OCN and Jimmie Wells, RN, OCN, MSN
Missouri
- St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness – St. Louis, MO
Physician Champion: David G. Mutch, MD
Program Coordinator: Robyn Hunter and Susan Robben
New Jersey
- Holy Name Medical Center – Teaneck, NJ
Physician Champion: Sharyn Lewin, MD
Program Coordinator: Courtney Lozano, MSW, LSW
New York
- Hope for Heather* – Syracuse, NY
Program Coordinator: Frieda Weeks
- Stony Brook University Cancer Center – Stony Brook, NY
Physician Champion: Michael L. Pearl, MD
Program Coordinator: Linda Bily
- Western New York Ovarian Cancer Project – Buffalo, NY
Partner Hospitals: Roswell Park Cancer Institute and CCS Oncology
Program Coordinator: Kathleen Maxian
North Carolina
- Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center – Charlotte, NC
Physician Champion: J. Matthew McDonald, MD
Program Coordinator: Elyse Adams, LCSW
Ohio
- Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Greater Cincinnati* – Cincinnati, OH
For a mentor in the Greater Cincinnati area please contact Tracy Moore at 212-268-1002
Pennsylvania
- University of Pennsylvania Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine – Philadelphia, PA
Physician Champion: Anna Jo Smith, MD, MPH, MSc
Program Coordinator: Laura Quilley, RN, BSN, OCN
Rhode Island
- Rhode Island Hospital – Providence, RI
Physician Champion: Don Dizon, MD
Program Coordinator: Jennifer Pryzgoda, LICSW, OSW-C
Tennessee
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center – Nashville, TN
Physician Champion: Alaina J. Brown, MD, MPH
Program Coordinator: Carla Amato-Martz, MSW
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Ovarian Cancer Alliance – New Berlin, WI
Partner Hospital: Aurora West Allis Medical Center
Physician Champion: Elizabeth Dickson Michelson, MD
Program Coordinator: Ashley Schneider
Program Sites in Development
These OCRA Woman to Woman Programs are in development or on pause due to COVID 19. If you live near, or are being treated by, any of these sites and would like to match with a Woman to Woman Mentor, please fill out the contact form for the National Mentoring Program.
Arkansas
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences – Little Rock, AR
Physician Champion: Kristin Zorn, MD
Program Coordinator: Mona Dee Nutt
Florida
- Cancer Advocacy Resources Education (C.A.R.E.) – Melbourne, FL
Physician Champion: John Bomalaski, MD
Program Coordinator: Alice Spinelli
New Jersey
- Cooper University Hospital – Camden, NJ
Physician Champion: David P. Warshal, MD
Program Coordinator: Lisa McLaughlin - University Hospital – Newark, NJ
Program Coordinator: Marisol Rivera
New York
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital – New York, NY
Physician Champion: Jason D. Wright, MD
Program Coordinator: Lynette Williams
Pennsylvania
- Abington Memorial Hospital – Abington, PA
Physician Champion: Mark Shahin, MD - Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC – Pittsburgh, PA
Program Coordinators: Sara Maloney and Jennie Pabst
Tennessee
- University of Tennessee Medical Center – Knoxville, TN
Physician Champion: Larry C. Kilgore, MD
Program Coordinator: Lindsay Brezina, LMSW
*These sites are in partnership with the OCRA national Woman to Woman site and are not affiliated with a hospital.