© 2001 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 3, 176-177,
February 7, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The Margaret Hay Edwards Achievement Medal was awarded to E.M.L. Haagedoorn, M.D., Ph.D., in Washington, D.C., in November in recognition of her contributions to cancer education.The medal, presented annually, recognizes a member of the American & European Associations for Cancer Education who is actively involved in cancer education. Haagedoorn is a member of the UICC Committee on Cancer Education for Medical Students.
Hawthorn Named
Lesleyann Hawthorn, Ph.D., has been named director of a new research resource at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y.
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She will oversee the Affymetrix GeneChip Instrument System, a system that looks at cancer-associated changes in gene expression patterns in patient samples.
Hawthorn was previously the director of the Gene Expression Core Lab at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner Research Institute.
Officers Elected
The American Cancer Society Foundation Board of Trustees elected new officers for 2001.
Irwin Belk, president of The Belk Group Inc., Charlotte, N.C., was elected president.
Arnold A. Portigal was re-elected treasurer. He is president of Genevieve Financial Inc. of Canada and Genevieve Holdings of Arizona Ltd.
Ralph Destino, chairman emeritus of Cartier Inc., was re-elected secretary.
Committees Appointed
In December, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala appointed 12 members to the new National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee. The committee was established in June 2000 along with the new HHS Office for Human Research Protections, which replaced the former Office for Protection from Research Risks at the National Institutes of Health.
The advisory committee will be chaired by Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D., who is director of the program in bioethics at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. OHRP Director Greg Koski, Ph.D., M.D., will serve as the committee’s executive secretary. The appointees are:
• Mark Barnes, J.D., Proskauer Rose LLP, and chairman, Committee on Health Care Providers for the New York State Bar Association, New York;
• Sanford Chodosh, M.D., president of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, Wayland, Mass.;
• Elliot N. Dorff, Ph.D., rector and professor of philosophy, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Calif.;
• Jennie R. Joe, Ph.D., professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona at Tucson;
• Robert Levine, M.D., professor of medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.;
• Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D., professor of medicine, School of Medicine and Bioethics Officer at Kansas State University Medical Center;
• Abbey S. Meyers, president of the National Organization for Rare Disorders, New Fairfield, Conn.;
• Mary Z. Pelias, Ph.D., J.D., professor of the Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, La.;
• Robert R. Rich, M.D., executive associate dean of research, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.;
• Adil E. Shamoo, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore;
• Judith L. Siegel, Ph.D., vice president and head of U.S. Clinical Operations for Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Caldwell, N.J.;
• Denyse Thornley-Brown, M.D., assistant professor of the Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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