Breast Health ALIGN, LLC

Dr. Patricia Flowers brings a unique combination of lived experience, scientific training, and national-level experience in breast cancer advocacy to her work. With a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, training in public health, and experience supporting patient-centered initiatives within a national breast cancer organization, she has worked at the intersection of research, patient engagement, and health equity—helping shape how patient perspectives are meaningfully integrated into healthcare and industry. She is also a breast cancer survivor who brings firsthand insight into the realities patients navigate beyond clinical care.

Her experience includes contributing to community-based cancer research and care delivery within a national NCI-supported network, providing direct insight into how access, participation, and outcomes are shaped across diverse populations and care settings. This experience provides a systems-level understanding of how care delivery functions across settings, and where breakdowns in access and coordination can lead to gaps in patient follow-through. 

Even well-resourced programs may not always have the capacity to address the full range of barriers patients experience outside of clinical settings. Her work centers on how everyday realities—such as transportation, language, insurance instability, trust, and coordination—continue to shape access, and why improving outcomes requires approaches that extend beyond traditional models. Through Breast Health ALIGN, she applies this expertise to strengthen how healthcare systems, community-based organizations, and industry engage with patients, ensuring that navigation and support are structured around real-world needs and experiences while meaningfully integrating the patient voice.

Her approach is grounded in the belief that effective solutions require both scientific rigor and practical application. By combining evidence-based strategies with lived experience, Dr. Flowers supports organizations in developing approaches that are not only well-designed, but also feasible to implement, responsive to community needs, and capable of driving measurable, sustained impact.