© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 2, 103-105,
January 19, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The Leukemia Society of America has awarded the 1999 de Villiers International Achievement Award and Grant to Irving L. Weissman, M.D., professor of pathology and developmental biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.The university will receive $250,000 to allow Weissman to continue and expand his research into how leukemias and lymphomas acquire the properties of perpetual growth and self-renewal.
Balch Appointed
Charles M. Balch, M.D., has been named executive vice president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology effective March 1.
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Currently, Balch is a professor of surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles. While serving as executive vice president, he will work part-time at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, in the Department of Surgery and in the Oncology Center.
Balch has served as the president and chief executive officer of City of Hope Medical Center and Research Institute, Los Angeles; and executive vice presi-dent for health affairs, vice president for hospital and clinics, head of the Division of Surgery and Anesthesiology; and chairman of the Department of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
Balch will succeed John R. Durant, M.D. "I can now retire secure in the knowledge that ASCO will be in the best of hands under Dr. Balch's stewardship," Durant said.
Joseph S. Bailes, M.D., ASCO president, added: "He will be a tremendous asset to ASCO and we're very pleased to have found such a uniquely qualified individual to assume the office of EVP."
AACI Appoints Leadership
The Association of American Cancer Institutes has elected Ronald B. Herberman, M.D., as its president, and Barbara Duffy Stewart, M.P.H., has been appointed executive director. Herberman is the director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Herberman plans to emphasize the role of cancer centers as leaders. "It is at the nation's cancer centers where cures for cancer are being developed, and where patients can participate in the most up-to-date cutting-edge cancer therapies," he said.
AACI also recently established its administrative operations center at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Grever Named at Ohio State
Michael R. Grever, M.D., has been named chair of the Ohio State University Department of Internal Medicine and the program leader for Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center Experimental Therapeutics Program.
He will be responsible for all patient care services, medical student education, and research within the internal medicine department. He will also direct a program designed to coordinate a comprehensive effort that advances experimental therapeutics toward clinical cancer treatment.
Grever was previously the director of the division of hematologic malignancies at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. From 1978 to 1989, he directed the interdisciplinary oncology unit at the Ohio State University Hospitals. In 1989, he was appointed deputy director of the Division of Cancer Treatment at the National Cancer Institute, and later became director of NCI's Developmental Therapeutics Program. He specializes in research on hairy cell leukemia.
Melnick Appointed
Sandra L. Melnick, Dr.P.H., was appointed Chief of the Analytic Epidemiology Research Branch in the National Cancer Institute's Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.
Since joining NCI in 1996, Melnick was program director for AIDS and Infectious Disease Epidemiology in AERB, and acting chief of the branch. She previously was project officer of the U.S. Women's Interagency HIV Study at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and coordinating chair for Natural History and Epidemiology in the National Institutes of Health Office of AIDS Research.
Brunson Joins UNT
Kenneth W. Brunson, Ph.D., has been named deputy director of the newly created Institute for Cancer Research at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth.
Prior to signing on at the UNT Health Science Center, Brunson was the director of the Tumor Models Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
The Institute for Cancer Research was created in January 1999 and is directed by Ronald H. Goldfarb, Ph.D.
Ruckdeschel Elected
John C. Ruckdeschel, M.D., has been elected to the National Coalition for Cancer Research Board of Directors.
Ruckdeschel is the chief executive officer and center director of Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa. He is also the medical vice president of the Florida division of the American Cancer Society.
Mays Named
Control Delivery Systems Inc., Watertown, Mass., has appointed Michael Mays as its vice president of finance.
Control Delivery Systems is a privately held company that develops drug delivery systems for the treatment of serious or life-threatening ophthalmic, oncologic, and infectious diseases. Mays most recently served as the director of mergers and acquisitions at WSI Inc., a company that specializes in environmental issues.
Reinhardt Appointed
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., has appointed Teresa M. Reinhardt as the director of Health Information/Medical Records.
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Reinhardt was previously the director of Health Management Information at Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo. Her responsibilities will include initiating, planning and implementing systems, policies, and procedures consistent with professional standards and legal and regulatory requirements; and ensuring medical record compliance to regulations of accrediting agencies.
Cancer Center Opens
The St. Vincents Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, was formally dedicated last October. The 68,000-square-foot center will be the primary site of clinical oncology research for the St. Vincents Hospital and Medical Center, New York.
At the October ceremony, a $2 million gift was presented to the medical center to endow the Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Professorship in Gastrointestinal Oncology. John S. Macdonald, M.D., medical director for the cancer center and chief of medical oncology at St. Vincents, was named as the first person to hold the endowed professorship.
Program Focuses on Elderly
The Cancer Survival Toolbox, a comprehensive educational tool provided free to people affected by cancer, has introduced a new program called "Topics for Older Persons."
The audio tape program targets the older population, which is the fastest growing population of cancer survivors. It focuses on six skills: communicating, information-seeking, problem-solving, decision-making, negotiating, and standing up for one's rights.
"The best way to address issues older persons with cancer face is for them to advocate for themselves," said Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D., former president of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.
The Cancer Survival Toolbox is the product of a collaboration among NCCS, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the Association of Oncology Social Work. It is supported by a grant from Genentech, Inc. About 50,000 toolboxes have been distributed since its release.
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