President of Baron & Budd, P.C. Joins NCCN Foundation Board of Directors

Feb 16, 2011

Russell W. Budd, president and managing shareholder of mesothelioma law firm Baron & Budd. P.C., has been tapped to join the Board of the National NCCN Foundation. The Foundation is the philanthropic affiliate of the National Comprehensive Cancer Care Network® (NCCN®), a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the world’s leading cancer centers.

Budd has spent much of his three-decade career defending the rights of individuals who have been harmed by asbestos, which causes mesothelioma and forms of lung cancer. Click here to learn more about Russell Budd and Baron & Budd.

NCCN is a non-profit alliance of 21 leading cancer centers dedicated to improving cancer care for patients.  The member institutions are:

1. City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
2. Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA
3. Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC
4. Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
5. Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
6. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
7. The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
8. Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
9. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
10. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
11. The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Columbus, OH
12. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
13. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
14. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/University of Tennessee Cancer Institute, Memphis, TN
15. Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, Stanford, CA
16. University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center, Birmingham, AL UCSF
17. Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA
18. University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI
19. UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
20. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
21. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN