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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002 94(23):1744; doi:10.1093/jnci/94.23.1744
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 23, 1744, December 4, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Awards, Appointments, Announcements

The American Cancer Society has named new officers to its national volunteer board of directors. The society has also recognized several individuals for their distinguished services, humanitarian efforts, and volunteer leadership.

Mary A. Simmons, M.D., was named president. Simmons is a clinical professor of medicine at Penn State University College of Medicine and a practicing medical oncologist.

David M. Zacks, J.D., was elected chairman of the board. Zacks is a litigator and partner for the international law firm Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, in Atlanta.

Ralph B. Vance, M.D., was named president-elect. Vance is a professor of medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.

Gary J. Streit, J.D., was elected chairman-elect. Streit is president of the law firm Shuttleworth and Ingersoll, PLC, in Iowa.

Thomas G. Burish, Ph.D., was elected vice chairman. Burish is president of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.

Mark Clanton, M.D., was voted first vice president. Clanton is a national health care consultant and former physician executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas.

Stephen F. Sener, M.D., was voted second vice president. Sener is associate director for the Residency Training Program in Surgery at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.

Elected lay officers include treasurer Jean B. McGill, president of Noble Investment Inc., a private investment firm in Oklahoma, and secretary Anna Johnson-Winegar, Ph.D., deputy assistant to the United States Secretary of Defense.

The American Cancer Society presented its 2002 Distinguished Service Award to Stephen Wyatt, D.M.D., associate director for cancer control at the Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

The 2002 Humanitarian Award was given to Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D., director of the Endocrine Research Laboratory at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and Armin Weinberg, Ph.D., director of the Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine.

The Volunteer Leadership Award was given to Irwin Belk, president of The Belk Group, Inc., in North Carolina, and Raymond Weisberg, M.D., who has served as a clinical professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.


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