© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 19, 1562-1563,
October 4, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Raymond N. DuBois Jr., M.D., Ph.D., associate director for cancer prevention at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, has been selected for membership into the Royal College of Physicians.DuBois will be formally admitted to the college during a ceremony Nov. 29 in London. DuBois is the only American this year to be elected to the college.
The College includes more than 8,500 fellows, most of them physicians in the United Kingdom, and 6,000 collegiate members worldwide. The College issues reports and recommendations on a variety of issues ranging from practice standards to the impact of tobacco and alcohol on public health.
DuBois recently co-chaired the National Cancer Institute’s Progress Review Group on Colorectal Cancer. He is a scientific adviser to the Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance and is president of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation.
Foundation Presents Awards
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation presented three awards at its National Grant Conference in September:
• Donna Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, was given the 2000 Komen Women’s Health Advocate Award;
• U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) received the Komen Lifetime Achievement Award; and
• U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) received the Champion of Change Award.
The Komen Foundation has raised more than $214 million for breast cancer research since its inception in 1982 and it has awarded more than 400 research and project grants totaling over $45 million. The Komen Foundation also organizes the Race for the Cure, a 5K run/fitness walk. There are now more than 100 Races worldwide every year.
Antismoking Leaders Honored
The American Cancer Society recently announced the winners of the Luther L. Terry Awards for Exemplary Leadership in Tobacco Control:
• The award for Outstanding Individual Leadership was shared by Judith Mackay, M.D., director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control and chair of the policy strategy advisory committee for the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Free Initiative, and Prakit Vateesatokit, dean of the faculty of medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand;
• the Non Smokers Rights Association, Toronto, won the award for Outstanding Organization;
• the Ministry of Health, South Africa, was recognized for Outstanding Leadership by a Government Ministry; and
• the award for Distinguished Career Achievement was shared by Kjell Bjartveit, president of the Norwegian Health Association, and Nigel Gray, senior research fellow at the European Institute of Oncology. He is also immediate past president of the International Union Against Cancer.
The awards were presented at the 11th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Chicago in August.
Coyne Honored
Patrick J. Coyne, a clinical nurse specialist for oncology/pain management at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Richmond, Va., has received the distinguished service award from the American Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives.
He is a founding member and past president of the Virgina Cancer Pain Initiative, a statewide, multidisciplinary organization that works to improve cancer pain management. He created and directs the Cancer Pain Center within the Massey Cancer Center at VCU. He is also a faculty member at the VCU School of Nursing.
Pollard Appointed
Jeffrey Pollard, Ph.D., has been appointed director of the Center for the Study of Reproductive Biology and Women’s Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
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The recently established center focuses on the research of fundamental issues in female reproductive biology as they relate to improving women’s health.
Pollard is a professor of developmental and molecular biology and of obstetrics and gynecology and women’s health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He will continue his role as associate director for laboratory research at Einstein’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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