Ms. Sandra Amaro

Ms. Sandra Amaro

Head of Clinical Trial Diversity Center of Excellence

Head of Clinical Trial Diversity Center of Excellence

Pfizer

Sandra Amaro, MBA, is the Head of Clinical Trial Diversity Center of Excellence at Pfizer, located in Groton, CT. In this role, she leads a group of Clinical Trial Diversity Leads who are accountable for enabling Pfizer’s Clinical Study Teams in the effort to increase equity and inclusion in clinical trials. Within her role, Sandra is also responsible for helping elevate the topic of diversity both within Pfizer and externally. In 2021, Sandra was appointed as TransCelerate’s Workstream Lead for their Diversity of Participates in Clinical Trials Workstream.

Sandra has been with Pfizer since May 2004, where she has held different leadership positions within Clinical Development and Operations and Global Clinical Supply.

Sandra received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Leadership from Albertus Magnus College, and her Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Rhode Island.

Mr. Sherman Womack

Mr. Sherman Womack

Prostate Cancer Survivor

Prostate Cancer Survivor

Deacon, Metropolitan Baptist Church, Boston

Sherman Womack holds a leadership position as a Deacon at the Metropolitan Baptist Church of Boston, which was first opened in 1935. Furthermore, Sherman Womack is a prostate cancer survivor who is a member of PHEN’s Survivor Network.

In 2008 and 2018, he participated in PHEN Survivor Roundtable Discussions. At these roundtables, Sherman explained his own personal cancer journey and the outreach efforts he has participated in to spread prostate cancer awareness.

Sherman Womack has worked at the Lynn Fire Department and resides in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Mr. Dewayne Charleston

Mr. Dewayne Charleston

Prostate Cancer Survivor Network Member

Prostate Cancer Survivor Network Member

Publisher of Prairie View Magazine, Former Judge at Waller County

Dewayne Charleston is a former judge who is currently the publisher of Prairie View magazine, which is a monthly publication serving central Texas and the Prairie View A&M University community. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009 at the age of 46 and has undergone three surgeries and seven different therapies, including participation in two clinical trials.

 He was featured in the Tubi documentary The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer in the African American Community. Dewayne Charleston is the proud father of Christian and Christopher

Dr. Richard Lee

Dr. Richard Lee

Clinical Co-Director, The Claire and John Bertucci Center for Genitourinary Cancers, Assistant Physician

Clinical Co-Director, The Claire and John Bertucci Center for Genitourinary Cancers, Assistant Physician

Mass General Cancer Center

After completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree at Harvard, Richard Lee, MD, PhD, then completed his medical school (M.D.) and graduate school (Ph.D.) training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He came to Mass General Hospital (MGH) for internal medicine residency training and then completed a medical oncology fellowship through the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/MGH joint program. During that time, he performed basic science research at the Whitehead Institute of MIT.

Dr. Keith Crawford

Dr. Keith Crawford

Director of Clinical Trials and Patient Education

Director of Clinical Trials and Patient Education

PHEN

Dr. Keith Crawford joined PHEN in 2019.  As Director of Clinical Trials and Patient Education, he is responsible for implementing programs in these areas as well as working with patients and PHEN partners.

Dr. Crawford has more than 20 years of experience in the Life Sciences and completed his graduate and post-graduate training at Harvard Medical School where he developed competencies in the area of genomics, proteomics, immunology, microbiology, infectious diseases, and regenerative medicine.

During his post-doctoral training, Keith was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Harold Amos Fellow. His work in the field of immunology caught the eye of the Department of Defense where he received funding to develop antidotes for chemical and biological weapons exposure as well as create a high throughput platform for the detection of biological weapons and emerging infectious agents.

After completing this directive, Dr. Crawford became the Director of the Center for Molecular Orthopedics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was responsible for leading research efforts at the center, which gave rise to the discovery of a novel population of early lineage adult stem cells.  Dr. Crawford and his colleagues were responsible for the preclinical studies, which laid the foundation for a spinal fusion therapeutic. 

Dr. Crawford is a graduate of Prairie View University, the University of Texas Medical School in Houston (Medical Doctorate), and Harvard University (Doctor Philosophy) where he studied cell biology and immunology.