We Can Pediatric Brain Tumor Network
Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Riley is the father of a 20-year survivor of a childhood brain tumor. He is a founding board member of the We Can Pediatric Brain Tumor Network, a parent-initiated nonprofit organization that works with pediatric cancer centers throughout California to provide information, emotional support, educational events and family camps to families of children with brain tumors, and to families which have lost a child to a brain tumor. He served as a community member of the Institutional Review Board at the University of California Los Angeles from 2004 to 2007. As the father of a son diagnosed at the age of 5 with a medulloblastoma, Mr. Riley has experienced the stresses and uncertainty of the consent process in which parents participate when presented with proposed treatment protocols for their children, and he has witnessed in his own child and in many others both the costs and the benefits that follow treatment for childhood cancer. Mr. Riley works in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and author, and teaches courses in writing for film and television at John Paul the Great Catholic University in San Diego.