Speaker Profile
Director, State & Local Campaigns - Access to Care, ACS CAN
Biography
Hilary Gee Goeckner is director of state and local campaigns for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society. In this role she leads work with ACS CAN staff and coalition partners across the country to improve access to comprehensive biomarker testing, clinical trials, fertility preservation and other health care access issues. Prior to this role, Hilary served as the Kansas government relations director for ACS CAN. Before joining ACS CAN, Hilary served as director of health policy at Kansas Action for Children. She holds a bachelors degree in anthropology and global health from Williams College and a masters degree in social work from Boston College. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two children.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Adrian Lee, University of Pittsburgh
PMWC Award Ceremony Honorees
• Dennis J. Slamon, UCLA
Neoadjuvant to Adjuvant MRD: How Early Is Early Enough?
• Chair: Angela DeMichele, UPenn
• Halla Nimeiri, Tempus
• Aparna Parikh, Harvard
• Minetta Liu, Natera
Serial ctDNA-Guided Therapy Switching (SERENA-6 & Beyond)
• Chair: Pedram Razavi, MSK
Multi-Omics Monitoring Beyond Variants: Methylation, Fragmentomics, EV/ctRNA
• David T. Miyamoto, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Maximilian Diehn, Stanford
From Validation to Payment: Coverage Pathways That Work
• Mark Stewart, Friends of Cancer Research
From Validation to Payment: Coverage Pathways That Work
• Mark Stewart, Friends of Cancer Research
• Hilary Gee Goeckner, American Cancer Society (ACS)
• Sally Werner, Cancer Support Community
• Gabriel A. Bien-Willner, Palmetto GBA
