The DNA of Healing NET Foundation: Collaboration and Education
The Healing NET Foundation began when a neuroendocrine cancer patient and the expert physician who treated her agreed that more doctors need up-to-date and accurate knowledge of neuroendocrine cancer and that all patients deserve to be seen by well-informed doctors. In 2013 Cindy Lovelace and Dr. Eric Liu co-founded The Healing NET Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3), to bring different perspectives together in collaboration to address gaps in education and awareness so patients can live longer lives and experience a better quality of life.
read Ten Facts on NET to learn why EDUCATION AND awareness of neuroendocrine CANCER is so critical.
Healing NET Co-FOUNDERS—ERIC LIU and cindy lovelace
Meet Mia S. Tepper, MBA, Executive Director
Mia Tepper comes to the Executive Director role of the Healing NET Foundation from a 30-year career at Inter Science Institute (ISI), an esoteric endocrinology & gastroenterology laboratory that performs rare blood tests for neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), diabetes, and obesity. She brings a strong background in scaling businesses. Her main accomplishments as the ISI Chief Operating Officer include: growing revenues over 300%; fulfilling contracts with the top laboratories in America and numerous pharmaceutical corporations; managing Clinical Trials testing; gaining licensure from the College of American Pathologists & the New York State Department of Health; and editing 12 peer-reviewed research publications, as well as four books, two with a NETs-specific focus. She has served in leadership roles on the Board of Directors for several nonprofits.
Mia is a happily married mother of four grown children. She is an avid believer in the benefits of exercise and meditation. In her spare time, Mia’s creative passion is writing, and she has written one screenplay, one song, and a parenting book to be published in late 2023.
