Project Leadership

Becky DeKay, MBA, is Executive Director, Oncology Service Line, University Health Shreveport, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana. Managing a staff of about 100 people, she oversees the functions in 60,000 square-foot Feist-Weiller Cancer Center (FWCC), which houses the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital affiliate program for pediatric patients, adult hematology and oncology, surgical oncology, ENT oncology, digital mammography, diagnostic radiology and CT, two operating rooms, two endoscopy suites, and clinical research. She serves as a member of the LSU Health Shreveport Ambulatory Care Administrative team coordinating nearly 500,000 ambulatory visits annually at LSU Health Shreveport. Ms. DeKay was also a member of the EPIC/Beacon EHR transition team for LSU Health Shreveport prior to and during implementation in November 2011.

Prior to joining Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Becky served for nearly 10 years at CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System in Shreveport beginning as Director of Marketing with responsibility of marketing research, advertising, public relations, and strategic planning. She later was promoted to Vice President of Medical Staff Development, responsible for physician recruitment and retention, credentialing, education, communication, quality assurance, quality improvement, and computer systems to support core functions and information links for physician offices/homes.

Ms. DeKay served as President of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (2014-2015), and previously chaired the ACCC Education Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and a Masters of Business Administration from Centenary College of Louisiana. She has served on various community Boards and chaired numerous development fund raisers.

Becky DeKay, MBA, is Executive Director, Oncology Service Line, University Health Shreveport, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana. Managing a staff of about 100 people, she oversees the functions in 60,000 square-foot Feist-Weiller Cancer Center (FWCC), which houses the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital affiliate program for pediatric patients, adult hematology and oncology, surgical oncology, ENT oncology, digital mammography, diagnostic radiology and CT, two operating rooms, two endoscopy suites, and clinical research. She serves as a member of the LSU Health Shreveport Ambulatory Care Administrative team coordinating nearly 500,000 ambulatory visits annually at LSU Health Shreveport. Ms. DeKay was also a member of the EPIC/Beacon EHR transition team for LSU Health Shreveport prior to and during implementation in November 2011.

Prior to joining Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Becky served for nearly 10 years at CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System in Shreveport beginning as Director of Marketing with responsibility of marketing research, advertising, public relations, and strategic planning. She later was promoted to Vice President of Medical Staff Development, responsible for physician recruitment and retention, credentialing, education, communication, quality assurance, quality improvement, and computer systems to support core functions and information links for physician offices/homes.

Ms. DeKay served as President of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (2014-2015), and previously chaired the ACCC Education Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and a Masters of Business Administration from Centenary College of Louisiana. She has served on various community Boards and chaired numerous development fund raisers.

Thomas Asfeldt, MBA, RN, BAN, served as director, Outpatient Cancer Services and Radiation Oncology for Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls and administrative director for Sanford Health Cancer Center in Worthington, MN. In this role, he was an active leader in integrating and standardizing operations between the radiation oncology services in Sioux Falls and Worthington, and developing rational standards in collaboration with all radiation oncology sites in Sanford Health. He held administrative responsibility for Cancer Program Accreditation by the Commission on Cancer and for the Sanford USD Medical Center Cancer Committee.

Mr. Asfeldt served as the Co-PI, NCI Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) from inception of the NCCCP in 2007 through close of the program in 2014, and was responsible for oversight of all aspects of the NCCCP contract including meeting deliverables and managing contract compliance, administration, and finances.

Prior to joining Sanford in 2005, Thomas worked in Research Triangle Park, N.C., in the biotechnology industry performing program development, client relations, regulatory oversight and hands-on research. He also has extensive experience in the organ procurement industry, coronary intensive care management, and bedside nursing critical care.

Thomas received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Nursing, with minors in Biology and Chemistry from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and a Master of Business Administration with Honors from Regis University in Denver, Colorado.

Becky DeKay, MBA, is Executive Director, Oncology Service Line, University Health Shreveport, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana. Managing a staff of about 100 people, she oversees the functions in 60,000 square-foot Feist-Weiller Cancer Center (FWCC), which houses the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital affiliate program for pediatric patients, adult hematology and oncology, surgical oncology, ENT oncology, digital mammography, diagnostic radiology and CT, two operating rooms, two endoscopy suites, and clinical research. She serves as a member of the LSU Health Shreveport Ambulatory Care Administrative team coordinating nearly 500,000 ambulatory visits annually at LSU Health Shreveport. Ms. DeKay was also a member of the EPIC/Beacon EHR transition team for LSU Health Shreveport prior to and during implementation in November 2011.

Prior to joining Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Becky served for nearly 10 years at CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System in Shreveport beginning as Director of Marketing with responsibility of marketing research, advertising, public relations, and strategic planning. She later was promoted to Vice President of Medical Staff Development, responsible for physician recruitment and retention, credentialing, education, communication, quality assurance, quality improvement, and computer systems to support core functions and information links for physician offices/homes.

Ms. DeKay served as President of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (2014-2015), and previously chaired the ACCC Education Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and a Masters of Business Administration from Centenary College of Louisiana. She has served on various community Boards and chaired numerous development fund raisers.

Raymond Uyiosa Osarogiagbon, MD, FACP, is an active practicing hematologist/medical oncologist at the Baptist Cancer Center in Memphis, Tennessee, an American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC)-accredited Comprehensive Community Cancer Center. He serves as Director of the Thoracic Oncology Research Group and the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program at the Baptist Cancer Center. Additionally, he is Research Professor at the University of Memphis School of Public Health in Memphis, and a member of the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

His research focuses on improving healthcare systems, including examination of oncology care delivery models, quantifying the relative survival impact of determinants of quality care in thoracic oncology, and improving the quality of surgical resection and pathologic staging of lung cancer. Current research support includes R01 funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He is also the Principal Investigator of the Baptist Cancer Center/Mid-South Minority-Underserved National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP).

Dr. Osarogiagbon is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AOA), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Workforce Advisory Group, the National Institutes of Health’s Health Services Organization and Delivery (HSOD) Study Section, and the Board of Directors of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation’s Center of Excellence Program. He is also on the editorial boards of the journals Translational Lung Cancer Research and Journal of Thoracic Diseases, as well as the Chairman-Elect of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Membership Committee.

He received his medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and completed Internal Medicine Residency training at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in and a Fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Minnesota.

Becky DeKay, MBA, is Executive Director, Oncology Service Line, University Health Shreveport, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana. Managing a staff of about 100 people, she oversees the functions in 60,000 square-foot Feist-Weiller Cancer Center (FWCC), which houses the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital affiliate program for pediatric patients, adult hematology and oncology, surgical oncology, ENT oncology, digital mammography, diagnostic radiology and CT, two operating rooms, two endoscopy suites, and clinical research. She serves as a member of the LSU Health Shreveport Ambulatory Care Administrative team coordinating nearly 500,000 ambulatory visits annually at LSU Health Shreveport. Ms. DeKay was also a member of the EPIC/Beacon EHR transition team for LSU Health Shreveport prior to and during implementation in November 2011.

Prior to joining Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Becky served for nearly 10 years at CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System in Shreveport beginning as Director of Marketing with responsibility of marketing research, advertising, public relations, and strategic planning. She later was promoted to Vice President of Medical Staff Development, responsible for physician recruitment and retention, credentialing, education, communication, quality assurance, quality improvement, and computer systems to support core functions and information links for physician offices/homes.

Ms. DeKay served as President of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (2014-2015), and previously chaired the ACCC Education Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and a Masters of Business Administration from Centenary College of Louisiana. She has served on various community Boards and chaired numerous development fund raisers.