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Natalie Compagni Portis, PhD (mft#23584) has been working in public mental health and private practice since 1985. Her work focuses on patients and their families dealing with cancer and other life threatening illnesses, trauma, and traumatic loss. She also specializes in working with parents and children around attachment issues.  Natalie has been a breast cancer consultant and patient representative to the FDA since 2002. She has also been involved with the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program since 1999 as a patient representative. She is a member of the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee of the FDA and has worked with several grassroots organizations locally and nationally, doing outreach and developing policy around breast cancer issues, and other matters of health policy. She has lectured and consults with regard to optimal patient care, and the patient perspective in treatment and research. Dr. Compagni Portis has undertaken research on issues confronting mothers with cancer.  She has been a patient navigator with breast cancer patients, and helped to develop navigator programs at several hospitals. She facilitates groups for young women and mothers with breast cancer, as well as general cancer support groups, and created a resource guide for mothers with cancer.