Awards and Recognition

Hope Through Grace, Inc.

Member – National Colorectal Cancer Round Table (NCCRT), 2010 to date.

Member – Director’s Consumer Liaison Group, National Cancer Institute (NCI), 2006 – 2010.

Recipient, Harold P. Freeman Award, American Cancer Society, Texas Division, 2006.

Cited for testimony “Living Beyond Cancer: Finding a New Balance” President’s Cancer Panel,  National Cancer Institute (NCI), 2003.

Panelist, Round Table Forum with George W. Bush, and Heads of U. S. Government Health Agencies, Invited by the White House, 2008.

Grace L. Butler, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO, Hope Through Grace, Inc.  A non-profit 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to eliminate colorectal cancer, 2001 – to date.

Professor Emeritus – University of Houston, 2001 to date.

Recipient, Purpose Prize Fellow, Award,  2008.

Featured, “Colon Cancer Survivor Makes a Difference in Her Community” The Colon Examiner, American Cancer Society, 2005.

Member – Initial Review Group, Scientific Review Committee, Subcommittee A-Cancer Centers, National Cancer Institute (NCI), 2004-2006.

Honoree, “Encourage the Fight,” Starlight Gala, benefiting the American Cancer Society, 2003.

Recipient, “Partners in Courage Award,” American Cancer Society (ACS), Houston, TX 2001 .

Member, “Action Plan on Colorectal Cancer for the State of Texas” Steering Committee, Texas Cancer Council, 2000.

Member, American Leadership Forum, Class XII, Houston, TX, 1994-to date.