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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, is the recipient of a CEO Leadership Award from Diversity Best Practices, a group dedicated to building diversity in the workplace. The award recognizes the NIH’s efforts to ensure a diverse medical research workforce. Zerhouni accepted the award at the 2003 Diversity and Women Leadership Summit in October.
Steve Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute, and Andrea Velardi, M.D., chief of clinical immunology at the University of Perugia School of Medicine in Italy, have been awarded the first Prizes for Scientific Excellence in Medicine by the American Italian Cancer Foundation. The prizes honor researchers whose work directly benefits patients and includes a $50,000 honorarium for each winner.
Owen Witte, M.D., has received the Robert Roesler de Villiers International Achievement Award for his contributions to understanding the cause of certain blood cancers and immune disorders. The award is the highest scientific honor given by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and includes a medal and a grant of $100,000 over a 2-year period. Witte is a professor of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Waun Ki Hong, M.D., received the Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation (CRPF) for his research on new chemopreventive agents. Hong is the head of the Division of Cancer Medicine and chairman of the Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Caroline Ford, of the University of New South Wales, has been awarded the 2003 British Council Australia Fresh Science Prize for her research on the role of viruses in the development of breast cancer. The award includes a $4,000 cash prize.
Two publications of the National Cancer Institute’s Facing Forward series, 
Life After Cancer
and Ways to Make a Difference in Cancer, were awarded the silver and bronze National Health Information Awards, respectively. The awards are presented by the Health Information Resource Center and recognize the nation’s best health information programs and materials. The publications are available from the NCI at 1-800-4-CANCER or http://cancer.gov/publications.
Hak Choy, M.D., has been appointed chairman and professor of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is also director of the new Moncrief Radiation Oncology Center and is the Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Distinguished Chair in Therapeutic Oncology Research. Choy has also served as vice-chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.
Neal Flomenberg, M.D., has been named director of the Division of Medical Oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Flomenberg has been acting director of the division since 2001 and was director of the Hematologic Malignancies and Hematopoeitic Stem Cell Transplant Program.
Mary McCabe has been named director of the new Cancer Survivorship Program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. McCabe was previously director of the Office of Education and Special Initiatives at the National Cancer Institute. She has also served as director of Nursing Services at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Dennis Carson, M.D., has been appointed director of the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center at the University of California at San Diego. Carson was director of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging. He holds an adjunct appointment with the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has made several new faculty appointments: Michael Brattain, Ph.D., has been appointed senior vice president for basic research. He is also chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Boris Kuvshinoff II, M.D., was appointed surgical director of the operating room. He is an attending surgeon in the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery. Charles M. LeVea, M.D., Ph.D., and Shaozen Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., have been appointed to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. LeVea was previously at the University of Rochester Medical Center, N.Y. Zhang was previously at the Salina Regional Health Center in Kansas. Eunice S. Wang, M.D., and Swaminathan Padmanabhan, M.D., were appointed to the Leukemia Section of the Department of Medicine. Wang recently completed a fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and Padmanabhan recently completed a fellowship at the University of Miami in Florida.
The International Union Against Cancer (UICC) is accepting applications for the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowships for Beginning Investigators and the Translational Cancer Research Fellowships. Deadline for applications is Dec. 1, 2003. More information is available at http://fellows.uicc.org.
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