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MARY ANNE BRIGHT, RN, MN

Associate Director, Office of Cancer Information Service
National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Office of Communications

With a background in oncology nursing, cancer information and education, health communication and federal program administration, Ms. Mary Anne Bright holds a variety of leadership positions. As Acting Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Office of Communication, Ms. Bright ensures integrated and quality communications throughout the NCI, serves as the Institute’s spokesperson to a diversity of audiences, and establishes liaisons within the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other government agencies.

In conjunction with this role, Ms. Bright is also the Associate Director of the NCI’s Cancer information Service (CIS), a national network of 15 regional offices that serve the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. associated Pacific territories. The CIS is a resource for cancer information and education and a leader in helping people become active participants in their own health care. As Associate Director of CIS, Ms. Bright oversees the dissemination of cancer information through the nationwide 1-800-4-CANCER toll-free number and smoking cessation services through the National Cancer Institute’s Quitline (1-877-44-U-QUIT). Ms. Bright also oversees implementation of the CIS Partnership Program to reach minority and medically underserved populations and its activities around comprehensive cancer and tobacco control, as well as the CIS Program to improve the delivery of cancer information to patients, friends and families of patients, and the public.

In collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Ms. Bright is actively involved in the implementation of the new U. S. National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines. Ms. Bright holds numerous honors and awards and is a member of the board of directors if the International Cancer Information Service Group.

Last Updated: 8 January 2008