Board vice chair Bud White, who led the selection committee, said they have chosen former Rep. Tina Sablan.
Sablan has worked as an environmental specialist, waste reduction coordinator, and science teacher.
Her new responsibilities now include managing CCA’s programs and services for cancer patients, promoting cancer awareness through outreach and education, advancing the goals and objectives of the CNMI’s comprehensive cancer control plan, and fundraising.
Sablan will be assuming CCA responsibilities formerly held by Joanne Ogo, who will now be focusing primarily on her responsibilities as program coordinator for the comprehensive cancer control plan and will remain with the Department of Public Health.
White thanked Ogo for her dedicated efforts these past three years in building up the programs and services offered to cancer patients through both the Commonwealth Cancer Association and the Department of Public Health.
“It has certainly not been easy wearing two hats, as Joanne has done, and we are pleased at the progress that the CCA has made since our early beginnings. We are confident that having two full-time and committed individuals onboard and working together, with Joanne at Public Health and Tina at the CCA, will translate into even better services for cancer survivors, their families, and the community,” he said.
The Commonwealth Cancer Association is a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer and saving lives by providing advocacy, awareness, education, services, and hope.
