I have dedicated my professional life to the eradication of breast cancer. As the President of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, I oversee an active research program centered on breast cancer prevention. I am a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and senior partner in LLuminari, a multimedia women’s health company.          

I am considered one of the “founding mothers” of the breast cancer advocacy movement in the early 1990’s. I continue this work by serving on the board of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, and from 1998 to 2004, served on the National Cancer Advisory Board, appointed by President Clinton.

I am also known as a trusted guide to women worldwide through my books and website. The completely revised fourth edition of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book termed “the bible for women with breast cancer” by The New York Times; was released October 2005. It has been translated into German, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese and Hebrew. Dr. Susan Love’s Menopause and Hormone Book, first published in 1998 and revised in 2003, was one of the first to sound the alarm against the long term use of postmenopausal hormones.

Pioneering the multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer, I first began at the Faulkner Breast Center and then at the Revlon UCLA Breast Center. In addition, I am a serial entrepreneur having founded five companies. I am retired from the active practice of surgery, to dedicate my time to the urgent pursuit of breast cancer prevention.

Most recently, in October 2008, The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation, a global leader in breast cancer research, joined forces to launch the Love/Avon Army of Women. The goal behind this revolutionary initiative is to recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all. By bringing together women and scientists and challenging the scientific community to expand its current focus to include breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women, it will enable them to find the cause of breast cancer and learn how to prevent it.