Joanna Doran, Esq.

Joanna Doran, Esq.  is a cancer rights attorney, and CEO of Triage Cancer, a national, nonprofit organization providing free education on legal and practical issues that may impact individuals diagnosed with cancer and their caregivers, through events, materials, and resources.

Ms. Doran has spent more than twenty-five years working on behalf of the cancer community, including five as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School, teaching Cancer Rights Law, eight at the John Wayne Cancer Institute’s Psychosocial Care Program, and as an Adjunct Professor at Wayne State Law School.

Ms. Doran has presented nearly one thousand educational seminars on employment, insurance, health care, finances, and advocacy.

Ms. Morales has served on cancer community boards, including as Board Chair for the California Division of ACS, ZERO Prostate Cancer’s Medical Advisory Board, and ABA Breast Cancer Task Force.

She co-authored a book on Cancer Rights Law for the American Bar Association. In 2017, she wrote a chapter, “Preventing or Minimizing Financial Toxicity Across the Continuum of Cancer Care,” for the ONS book, “Cancer Survivorship: Transdisciplinary, Patient-Centered Approaches to the Season of Survival.” In 2009, she contributed to the book, “Work and Cancer Survivors.” She has written for publications, such as Psycho-Oncology, Coping with Cancer, and Heal Magazine.

Ms. Doran received the 2009 Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Public Policy Advocate of the Year and 2015 Stupid Cancer Legacy Advocate Award. In 2010, the Los Angeles Daily Journal named her one of the Top 20 Attorneys in California Under Age 40.