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Shifter named Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Woman of the Year

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Ariel Shifter (left) with her parents Andy and Pam Shifter. (Photo courtesy of Gateway Chapter of the LL&S) Ariel Shifter (left) with her parents Andy and Pam Shifter. (Photo courtesy of Gateway Chapter of the LL&S)

Ariel Shifter, a Washington University clinical research coordinator at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named Woman of the Year by the Gateway Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She was recognized May 5 at the society’s Man & Woman of the Year gala at The Chase Park Plaza. 

As part of a related fundraising campaign, Shifter collected $73,000 in donations in 10 weeks for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and related research.

“It’s an honor to be named Woman of the Year,” said Shifter, who works in the medical oncology treatment area at Siteman’s main location. “More importantly, it’s very gratifying to know I have so many family and friends who, like me, care about finding and funding a cure.”

Shifter, who has worked at Siteman since August 2015, also is a Hodgkin lymphoma survivor. After fighting her own battle as a patient at Siteman from 

June to September 2014, she changed her career path to become a Siteman staff member.

“I would not be here today if passionate individuals had not dedicated their time and money to finding a treatment that would allow me to live a full and healthy life after cancer,” Shifter wrote on her Leukemia & Lymphoma Society fundraising page. “I am so thankful to them, and I hope that my fundraising efforts will help current and future cancer patients feel the same sense of pride and relief that I felt when I found out my cancer was gone.”