Maureen Ripple, PhD currently works in the Office of Development & Alumni Relations which serves the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  After receiving her BS from the University of Notre Dame and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, she worked for over two decades studying the survival signaling and metabolism of cancer cells before transitioning to elementary education. Now, as a cancer patient, she hopes to help educate fellow patients and their families and friends.