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Speaker Bios Thursday, September 26, 2024 Kim Churches Kim Churches is The Washington Center's fourth President—and first woman in the role. Kim brings over three decades of experience in nonprofit and higher education administration, joining the organization after serving most recently as the chief executive officer for the American Association of University Women (AAUW). In her tenure leading AAUW, a national nonprofit advancing gender equity, she developed and implemented a comprehensive strategic plan to ensure the organization's mission focus, bolstering AAUW's actionable commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, while enhancing financial sustainability and impact. Prior to her work with AAUW, Kim served as the managing director for the Brookings Institution, an internationally recognized think tank. In that capacity, she strategically guided Brookings, providing vision and problem-solving skills while focusing on expansive partnerships, external relations and advancement. Her accomplishments at Brookings built on prior successful efforts as associate vice chancellor at the University of Denver and director of development at the University of North Florida. Kim has extensive experience working collaboratively in education and workforce development as well as on capacity building for national and international nonprofits. Susan Pannullo, MD Dr. Susan Pannullo is the Director of Neurosurgical Radiosurgery and Neurooncology at the Weill Cornell Medical Center. Both a neurosurgeon and a neurooncologist, Dr. Pannullo is board-certified in neurology and neurological surgery, is fellowship trained in neuro-oncology, and has completed specialty training in stereotactic radiosurgery. She is one of the few neurosurgeons in the world with a neurosurgical practice focused only on stereotactic radiosurgery, and one of the few neurosurgeons in the country with access to three different technologies—Novalis, Gamma Knife and CyberKnife—for stereotactic radiosurgery procedures. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Pannullo serves in leadership positions in several important institutional and national organizations, including the Weill Cornell Institutional Review Board, the National Brain Tumor Society, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the Brain Tumor Foundation. In 2021 she was honored by Weill Cornell Medicine with the Robert G. Schwager, MD '67 Education Scholar Award, a prestigious three-year career development award in medical education. Dr. Pannullo received her undergraduate degree with honors in anthropology from Cornell University in 1983 and her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1987. Following a medicine internship at Harvard-Beth Israel Medical Center, she completed a neurology residency at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center in 1991. From 1991 to 1992, Dr. Pannullo was an American Cancer Society Fellow in Neuro- oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She then completed a second residency in neurological surgery at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1997, becoming the program's first female graduate. Dr. Pannullo's research portfolio has included clinical studies at Newyork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as well as laboratory research at the National Institutes of Health. In the laboratory, Dr. Pannullo collaborates with faculty and students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University's Ithaca, New York, campus to develop novel brain tumor therapies and radiosurgical technologies.

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