© 1999 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 4, 313-314,
February 17, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Jeffrey White Directs NCI's New Office of Alternative Medicine
The National Cancer Institute has taken an official step toward evaluating alternative medicine therapies by naming Jeffrey D. White, M.D., as the director its newly established Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine. White's appointment began on Oct. 26, 1998.
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As a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., White trained in internal medicine, oncology, and hematology at the Washington Hospital Center and, since 1990, has been in the Metabolism Branch of NCI. For the past year, he was director of the Clinical Trials Program where his interests focused on the use of monoclonal antibodies for patients with adult T-cell leukemia as well as other malignancies involving over-expression of
