User talk:Shelleyzross

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 22:03, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

September 2023

Because you have been engaging in obvious Conflict of interest editing, you have been indefinitely blocked from editing Shelley Ross. You are welcome to make formal, well-referenced, neutral Edit requests at Talk: Shelley Ross. Please read the Guide to appealing blocks. Cullen328 (talk) 02:22, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Dear Cullen328, I have begun reading the rules about which I was clearly unaware. Quoting Wikipedia, I ask you kindly to "not break the new kid." I am now 70 years old and have suffered much online harassment for the last 20, most of it sexist, much of it libelous, anonymous, emotionally and physically disabling at times. The mythology surrounding me became bigger than I could ever imagine or undo. Some stories had a kernel of truth and were twisted beyond recognition, others just mere inventions of "melting down" in meetings I didn't attend, hanging the phone up on people I never called. After 17 years at ABC News, winning 3 Emmy Awards, sharing a Peabody Award for our coverage of 9/11 where I was broadcasting live during the attacks, after mentoring the next generation of executives, growing ratings and income evenue, someone else maneuvered into my job. While waiting out the end of my contract, I executive produced the ABC entertainment special, "David Blaine: Drowned Alive." . Soon, CBS executives asked me to be the senior executive producer of their morning show. Within 15 weeks I passed Good Morning America in male viewers. In 23 weeks I closed the gap with GMA in the demographically-valued viewers (age 25-54) by nearly a quarter million viewers. In those same weeks where CBS' The Early Show gained 195,000 new viewers, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric lost 340,000 (according to Nielsen records). This, using the same correspondents, assignment desk, camera crews and more. So now my regular anonymous attackers from the old gang were joined by a sprinkling of new colleagues..CBS hired me to be a disrupter, but didn't prepare for the fall out. One false story after another, often leaked on Friday afternoon, keeping the president of the news division entangled with gossip columnists and annoyingly distracted. It was, in my opinion, a failure of management. Eventually it was too much of a distraction for him and I was paid out of my contract, only fueling what was the end of my broadcast news career. Interestingly, the CBS News president and Chairman Les Moonves, were both removed from their jobs.

I naively thought I could turn things around when international businessman David Tang started a website called "I correct" for the newly maligned. For a $1,000 membership, you could post the false statement on one side of the screen and the truth on the other. I joined, only to be belittled by some hater in a story "what Shelley Ross has to say to everyone who said mean things about her." Reputation Defenders launched a business and told me their charge would mean an initial fee of $65,000 to clean up my online mess, with no guarantees. I also got death threats I passed on to the FBI. "Let me show you what we do to bad bosses," one began. I ultimately broke in many ways and spent a lot of time healing. In broadcast news I carved out a meaning life through my reporting on harassment, inequality, AIDS, racism, corrupt doctors, lawyers, politicians. Sam Donaldson and I together produced five Pentagon exposés which influenced serious change in the the Navy, Marine Corps and the Army. Now I was unemployable.

I wasn't surprised when I got cancer. It ran in my family, but it didn't help that stress ran my immune system into the ground. Still, what began as a volunteer mission to help some elite scientists at The Cure Alliance, became a second career. For the COI record, no one at The Cure Alliance has ever taken a salary, a fee. I never asked for expenses when I went to Washington, D.C. to support The 21st Century Cuers Act, or when I testified before the FDA to block a new guidance that had unforeseen implications for certain cancer survivors. Feel free to watch my 8-minute presentation online to get the full picture of what it's like to go through six months of chemotherapy followed by 10 surgeries. After the success of that presentation, I was given an advocacy award at the 2018 World Stem Cell Summit in Miami, attended by 1100 research scientists and stakeholders in regenerative medicine. Joe and Jill Biden were also honored that night with an advocacy award.

I've also written a history book, co-authored a medical book with a UCLA professor of clinical neurology, and published a coffee table photography book on life with our pandemic pooches (all proceeds going to The Cure Alliance fund for the COVID trial.) I produced and directed two PBS concert specials, one with a group, The Piano Guys, I am credited with discovering. I also am one of the executive producers of all the Nik Wallenda high wire specials,,. across Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, Chicago skyscrapers, Times Square and across a live volcano in Nicaragua.

For my 70th birthday, my husband of 33 years asked what I wanted... a party, a gift, a trip? No. "I want to help Dr. Charles Brunicardi overcome the hurdles to cure pancreatic cancer." I had been interviewing Dr. Brunicardi since 2015 when as the Michael Debakey Chair of Surgery at Baylor College, he discovered a protein that over expressed in all adenocarcinoma tumors of the pancreas. He set out to see if he turned off the protein, it would turn off the cancer, among the deadliest. He succeeded with RNAi, but someone else had claimed a global patent and his funding dried up. While I explored changing patent law, Dr. Brunicardi researched what other ways he could turn off PDX-1 and another discovery, BIRC5, also over expressed. As only he could, he and his team went through the library of 2500 drugs already approved by the FDA and came up with a combination of three widely-used generic drugs which, in combination, silenced stage 4 adenocarcinoma pancreatic cancer. In 2020, he got FDA approval for a clinical trial to test his new treatment, one which costs next to nothing. 24 patients would be selected who had advancing cancer after surgery and chemotherapy failed. Unfortunately COVID-19 pandemic shut down the trial after the first six patients were enrolled. Dr. Brunicardi took a new job as Dean of the Medical School at SUNY Downstate where he was their point person through the pandemic (Brooklyn being a ground zero for pandemic deaths.) All scientists connected to The Cure Alliance pivoted to work on COVID-19. We raised the initial funds for a clinical trial led by Dr. Camillo Ricordi for what turned out to be a successful treatment to reverse the lung damage in the most severe cases.

By November 2022, I suggested our membership turn back to their original missions. Dr. Ricordi has been working on a cure for diabetes for 30 years. That effort is getting very close. I also tried to push Dr. Brunicardi at a time when he was weary of writing grant proposals. Because he had already cleared many of the costs for the first trial, and the low cost of the generics, I learned he needed $300,000. I vowed to raise that before my 70th birthday, April 30th. On April 29th we sent SUNY Downstate a check for $200,000. Clinicians have been trained, and IRB approved and the first three out of 24p patients are enrolled. I think it's one of the most important things I've ever done. You see, these two proteins are also over expressed in prostate cancer, glioblastoma, colorectal cancer and triple negative breast cancer which is currently an epidemic throughout Africa. If this trial is a success, the FDA will allow it to expand into a pilot study for other cancers. We are already in contact with the cancer experts in Ghana. (They don't need FDA approval.)

Well, that's my case. Just last month I was invited to New York by (GMA anchor) Robin Roberts to join her on-air bachelorette celebration. It was an incredible homecoming for me as she hugged me on air and said, "Shelley Ross, my first executive producer." I was hugged by the wardrobe lady and the floor manager, and greeted by a whole generation who wanted to meet me. By late afternoon, about 30 people I hired or mentored at GMA joined me for drinks on the Empire Rooftop. Many more were out of town, taking their kids to college, etc. The next morning, as I prepared for my flight home to LA, someone alerted me to a nasty Page Six item saying that ABC people in the building were "shi**ing themselves" that "the viper" had returned to Robin's celebration. I quickly wrote an apology to Robin and her future spouse for my becoming the subject of what should have been their beautiful story. I cannot believe there are haters still obsessed enough with me to spoil what was actually also a historic moment in broadcast news for Robin,

What's more, I recently learned my LinkedIn profile was hacked, all mentions of The Cure Alliance removed and more. This was not a hater, but imposter who began contacting my connections. Around the same time, I discovered my Wikipedia page was reduced to a stub with links to the ugliest exaggerated and untrue citations crammed at the top.

I first restored my LinkedIn page and then attempted to do the same at Wikipedia. I had no idea there were strict rules. I thought I was not saving the information properly, thus the repeated attempts, and I eventually hired a computer expert to help me. It was the first time he was working on a Wikipedia page as well.

So I humbly ask to be unblocked. And I more humbly ask for your help to create a fair, non-sexist, non cartoonish biographical picture that includes my significant contributions. I'm not looking for Wikipedia to serve as a publicist. I do, however, think I've had a very unique life and career covering the most iconic stories of our lives. From Charles Manson to Dr. Germ, Saddam Hussein's architect of WMD. There's so much more, the least of which is the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting which seems to dominate my page even though I don't remember what it was for.

So who does write these pages? Would you? Where does the information come from if not the subject still living? I'm certainly not touching the page without instruction. I will wait to hear from you again. Notoriousep (talk) 08:11, 10 September 2023 (UTC)