© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 5, 374A-375,
March 1, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Amy S. Langer received the Gilda Radner Courage Award in January from the Roswell Park Alliance Community Fund-Raising Board, which supports the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y.Langer is the executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations and is a 15-year breast cancer survivor. The award recognizes a cancer survivor whose courageous public battle has given hope to people with cancer and focused public attention on the fight against cancer.
Hays Honored
The Leukemia Society of America recently honored Kathy Hays with a 50th Anniversary Commemorative Award.
Hays is the director of inpatient services at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh. She was recognized for her plan to educate and hire patient service managers to manage patient care issues for all chapters of the Leukemia Society of America.
"The Leukemia Society has acknowledged Ms. Hays as a leader with national prominence and clinical expertise. She has contributed greatly to the advancement of the treatment and care of patients with leukemia and lymphoma," said Joyce Yasko, Ph.D., associate director for clinical and network programs administration at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Denis Elected
The International Union Against Cancer unanimously elected Louis Denis, M.D., as its acting secretary general until September 2000.
Denis, who is with the Oncology Center, Antwerp, Belgium, serves on several UICC committees, including the UICC TNM Committee, with which he has been involved since 1990. Denis replaces Gerald P. Murphy, M.D., D.Sc., who died in January.
Burstin Appointed
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) has appointed Helen Burstin, M.D., as director of its Center for Primary Care Research.
Burstin previously was the director of quality measurement at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. She has served as regional co-chair of the Society for General Internal Medicine and is president of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Student Foundation.
As director of CPCR, Burstin will lead efforts to stimulate high-quality research in the primary care area, including evaluations of the quality, cost, and effectiveness of primary care services and rural health care services and systems, and special populations.
Roswell Names Division Chief
Thom R. Loree, M.D., has been appointed chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Loree will continue to serve as assistant professor of surgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. His research interests include thyroid cancer, microsurgery, and free tissue transfer.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute also appointed Wesley L. Hicks Jr., D.D.S., M.D., director of the fellowship program in the same division. He will be responsible for national accreditation and development of education and research programs. He will continue to serve as associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Program Leaders Named
The University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, named Marci Campbell, Ph.D., and Andrew Olshan, Ph.D., to lead two programs.
Campbell, assistant professor of nutrition in the UNC Schools of Public Health and Medicine, will lead the Cancer Prevention and Control Program. She is principal or co-principal investigator for such grants as the Wellness for African Americans Through Churches Project, Health Works in the Community, and Black Churches United for Better Health.
Olshan will lead the Cancer Epidemiology Program. He is an associate professor of epidemiology in the UNC School of Public Health and research associate professor in the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine. His research involves studies of the molecular epidemiology of cancers of the head and neck and evaluation of risk factors for childhood cancer.
Castro Appointed
Nelvis Castro has been appointed acting director of the Office of Cancer Communications at the National Cancer Institute.
Castro has been the head of NCI’s Health Promotions Branch, where she oversaw the national breast cancer and cervical cancer education programs, the strategic planning aspects of the Cancer Research Awareness Initiative, the National 5 A Day for Better Health Communications Program, and NCI-sponsored consumer research.
She succeeds J. Paul Van Nevel who recently retired from NCI after 27 years of service to form his own communications consulting practice.
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