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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The American Cancer Society recently presented its 2003 Luther L. Terry Awards at the 12th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Helsinki, Finland. · Mary Assunta Kolandai of Malaysia and Simon Chapman, Ph.D., professor of public health at the University of Sydney, Australia, shared the award for outstanding individual leadership.
· GLOBALink, of the International Union Against Cancer, won the award for outstanding organization.
· The Exemplary Leadership by a Government Ministry Award was given to the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
· The Outstanding Research Contribution Award was shared by Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D., professor of public health at the University of Michigan, and Prakash Chandra Gupta, Sc.D., senior research scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India.
· The Distinguished Career Award was shared by Michael Pertschuk, co-director of the Advocacy Institute, and England’s Richard Doll, M.D., Sc.D.
· A Special Recognition Award for Leadership on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was awarded to Gro Harlem Brundtland, M.D., former director-general of the World Health Organization.
Juri G. Gelovani, M.D., has joined the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, as professor and chair of the Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging in the Division of Radiation Oncology.
Prior to joining the faculty at M. D. Anderson, Gelovani served as the head of the molecular-genetic and cellular imaging section in the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
Graham A. Colditz, M.D., Ph.D., of the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and Kenneth J. Pienta, M.D., director of the Urologic Oncology Research Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, were awarded clinical research professorships from the American Cancer Society. Each awardee will receive $300,000 over a 5-year period to initiate new cancer research projects or to fill research needs not met through other support.
Nabil Saba, M.D., has been appointed assistant professor of hematology and oncology and director of house staff education programs for the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta.
Saba was previously at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
Randal S. Weber, M.D., has been named head of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Weber is returning to M. D. Anderson after serving more than 7 years as the vice chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and director of the Center for Head and Neck Cancer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Anthony F. Shields, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed associate director for clinical research of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit.
Shields is currently the leader of the institute’s Gastrointestinal Oncology Multidisciplinary Team, program leader for Developmental Therapeutics, and a professor of medicine and oncology.
Ruth O’Regan, M.D., has been appointed director of the Translational Breast Cancer Research Program and assistant professor of hematology and oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute.
O’Regan was previously at Northwestern University in Chicago where she was an assistant professor of Medicine at Northwestern Hospital specializing in breast cancer.
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