Join Our Doctor Match Program

Our Doctor Match Program is a network of more than 500 mesothelioma specialists and over 100 cancer centers of excellence across the United States. Participating in our exclusive program benefits doctors, cancer centers and patients.

Doctors Benefits

  1. Connecting mesothelioma doctors to more patients across the U.S.

  2. Driving more mesothelioma patients to centers of excellence

  3. Increasing doctor visibility

  4. Collaborating with the nation’s most trusted mesothelioma resource

Patients Benefits

  1. Scheduling doctor appointments for free

  2. Accessing clinical trial enrollment

  3. Getting timely treatment from a mesothelioma specialist

  4. Guidance on legal options for compensation

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Meet the Outreach Team

Medical Outreach Director Missy Miller, Medical Outreach Liaison José Ortiz and Medical Officer Dr. Catherine Perrault travel across the country to personally meet with surgeons, oncologists, and researchers at top cancer centers of excellence involved in the most current and emerging treatment options for mesothelioma.

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Missy Miller, Medical Outreach Director at The Mesothelioma Center
Medical Outreach Director

Missy Miller

Missy Miller has connected mesothelioma patients with top doctors since 2010. Through the partnerships she has built across the U.S., Miller makes sure every patient is seeing the right professionals to improve their prognosis. She guides families on where to turn for medical, financial and emotional support.

Jose Ortiz, Medical Outreach Liaison at the Mesothelioma Center
Medical Outreach Liaison

José Ortiz

José Ortiz travels throughout the country to meet world-class physicians who help patients affected by mesothelioma. Since 2013, Ortiz has built partnerships with the nation’s best mesothelioma specialists. He hosts webinars with industry professionals, attends symposiums and is a VA-accredited claims agent.

Catherine Perrault
Medical Officer and Board-Certified Family Physician

Dr. Catherine Perrault

Dr. Perrault is a dedicated advocate for mesothelioma patients, leveraging her 13 years of service in the U.S. Navy and her extensive medical expertise to make a lasting impact. Since joining The Mesothelioma Center, she has fostered relationships with leading specialists to ensure timely and effective treatment for patients. She is also deeply committed to advancing research and innovative therapies for those affected by mesothelioma.

How We’ve Helped Our Partners

Since its inception in 2006, the Medical Outreach team has helped The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com donate more than $640,000 to our partners’ foundations and cancer centers. This much-needed collaboration and funding ensure our partners keep working toward finding a cure for mesothelioma, improving treatment, and providing patients and their loved ones with more resources.

Our medical partners often become valued contributors to Asbestos.com by sharing their experiences and insights with the mesothelioma community.

As Featured In

Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators Ochsner Cancer Institute Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization

Types of Health Care Professionals We Help

Medical oncologists

Nurses

Patient navigators

Radiation oncologists

Social workers

Surgical oncologists

Thoracic surgeons

How Our Partnerships Work

1. Our health care partner refers a patient to us.

2. We speak with the patient and their individual needs.

3. We send a free tailored packet with helpful resources.

4. We help with appointments, insurance, benefits and finding legal experts.

5. We ensure our health care partner are updated on their patient's journey.

How Medical Outreach Helps Patients

Our Medical Outreach team can help people with mesothelioma apply for financial assistance, grants, Social Security Disability Insurance and VA benefits. They also answer health insurance questions and assist you with insurance issues and appeals.

We help patients modify insurance plans for better coverage and assist you in finding supplemental insurance to cover the 20% of out-of-pocket expenses Medicare does not cover.

Our team sends patients and loved ones a customized information packet. It contains a medical record organizer, mesothelioma books, a checklist of all the resources available to them and much more.

These resources help you understand your treatment options and how to pay for treatment expenses. Cancer treatment is expensive, and there are ways people diagnosed with mesothelioma can access compensation. Lawsuits, asbestos trust funds, and VA benefits also help families afford oncology care.

Testimonials From Doctors & Patients

5.0 rating | 150+ reviews

Missy and Jose are an enormous resource and asset to patients facing mesothelioma and their family members. By joining the Doctor Match Program at The Mesothelioma Center, I am grateful for their help collecting patients’ records and information expeditiously, so we can get people what they need as quickly as possible.
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Working alongside as a tag team, Jose and Missy are fantastic to work with, so collegial, so much hope, so much positivity and patients love getting their information and learning and appreciate all the vast experience they bring to the table when it comes to patient advocacy and outreach and education revolving around mesothelioma. The families and caregivers rave about Jose and Missy on how supportive and thoughtful and professional they are. It is great to work alongside them to help our mesothelioma patients.
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Contacting The Mesothelioma Center was a game changer. The immediate assistance my parents received through speaking with a patient navigator and triage to a specialist for optimal care allowed them to regain control of their future.
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The Mesothelioma Center has been extremely helpful to us in the weeks since a family member’s mesothelioma diagnosis. They’ve helped as we evaluate hospice providers and navigate legal issues. I highly recommend them.
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I have worked with Missy Peterson and Jose Ortiz since 2012. Missy and Jose are not just knowledgeable and experienced patient advocates, they are genuinely caring and compassionate human beings who have devoted years of their lives to guide, educate and comfort patients with mesothelioma and lung cancer. They are selfless and dedicated to our patients. They are the pillars of our cancer program.
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