Full Name
Joanna Fawzy Doran, Esq.
Job Title
CEO
Company
Triage Cancer
Speaker Bio
Joanna Fawzy Doran, Esq. is a cancer rights attorney, author, speaker, and CEO of Triage Cancer, a national, nonprofit organization providing free education on practical and legal issues that may impact individuals coping with cancer and their caregivers, through events, materials, and resources.
Ms. Doran has spent more than thirty years working on behalf of individuals with cancer, including five as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, teaching a seminar in Cancer Rights Law, and eight at the John Wayne Cancer Institute’s Psychosocial Care Program and Positive Appearance Center. She has also taught a Community Advocacy Clinic, as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School.
Ms. Doran co-authored the book, Cancer Rights Law, for the American Bar Association – the first and only book of its kind. The second edition of Cancer Rights Law was released in 2025. In 2020, she wrote a chapter Cancer-Related Legal Issues, for the Oncology Nursing Society’s book, Oncology Nurse Navigation: Delivering Patient-Centered Care Across the Continuum. In 2017, she wrote Preventing or Minimizing Financial Toxicity Across the Continuum of Cancer Care, a chapter for the Oncology Nursing Society’s book, Cancer Survivorship: Transdisciplinary, Patient-Centered Approaches to the Season of Survival. In 2009, she also contributed to a book entitled, Work and Cancer Survivors. And, her work has appeared in a variety of other publications, such as PsychoOncology, Heal, CURE, and Coping with Cancer.
Ms. Doran has presented nearly one thousand educational seminars on employment, insurance, health care, and advocacy issues throughout the country for individuals diagnosed with cancer, caregivers, health care professionals, advocates, lawyers, employers, and the general public. In addition, she has served on numerous cancer community committees and boards, including as Chair of the Board of Directors for the California Division of the American Cancer Society, ZERO
Prostate Cancer’s Medical Advisory Board, the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association’s Breast Cancer Task Force, and the CURE Advisory Board.
Ms. Doran has received several awards and recognition for her service to the cancer community and her work in the area of legislative advocacy, including the 2009 Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Public Policy Advocate of the Year and the 2015 Legacy Advocate Award from Stupid Cancer. In 2010, she was recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the Top 20 Attorneys in California Under the Age of 40. In 2023, she was one of Cancer Health’s 25 Champions of Health Equity. In 2025, Ms.Doran received the UCLA Award for Professional Achievement.
Ms. Doran earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations from the University of California Los Angeles and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School Los Angeles. She has also received the American Cancer Society Leadership in Oncology Navigation (ACS LION) Certificate and the ACS LION Clinical Trials Navigation Certificate.
Ms. Doran has spent more than thirty years working on behalf of individuals with cancer, including five as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, teaching a seminar in Cancer Rights Law, and eight at the John Wayne Cancer Institute’s Psychosocial Care Program and Positive Appearance Center. She has also taught a Community Advocacy Clinic, as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School.
Ms. Doran co-authored the book, Cancer Rights Law, for the American Bar Association – the first and only book of its kind. The second edition of Cancer Rights Law was released in 2025. In 2020, she wrote a chapter Cancer-Related Legal Issues, for the Oncology Nursing Society’s book, Oncology Nurse Navigation: Delivering Patient-Centered Care Across the Continuum. In 2017, she wrote Preventing or Minimizing Financial Toxicity Across the Continuum of Cancer Care, a chapter for the Oncology Nursing Society’s book, Cancer Survivorship: Transdisciplinary, Patient-Centered Approaches to the Season of Survival. In 2009, she also contributed to a book entitled, Work and Cancer Survivors. And, her work has appeared in a variety of other publications, such as PsychoOncology, Heal, CURE, and Coping with Cancer.
Ms. Doran has presented nearly one thousand educational seminars on employment, insurance, health care, and advocacy issues throughout the country for individuals diagnosed with cancer, caregivers, health care professionals, advocates, lawyers, employers, and the general public. In addition, she has served on numerous cancer community committees and boards, including as Chair of the Board of Directors for the California Division of the American Cancer Society, ZERO
Prostate Cancer’s Medical Advisory Board, the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association’s Breast Cancer Task Force, and the CURE Advisory Board.
Ms. Doran has received several awards and recognition for her service to the cancer community and her work in the area of legislative advocacy, including the 2009 Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Public Policy Advocate of the Year and the 2015 Legacy Advocate Award from Stupid Cancer. In 2010, she was recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the Top 20 Attorneys in California Under the Age of 40. In 2023, she was one of Cancer Health’s 25 Champions of Health Equity. In 2025, Ms.Doran received the UCLA Award for Professional Achievement.
Ms. Doran earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations from the University of California Los Angeles and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School Los Angeles. She has also received the American Cancer Society Leadership in Oncology Navigation (ACS LION) Certificate and the ACS LION Clinical Trials Navigation Certificate.
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