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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
- The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) has
announced the winners of two awards, which will be presented at the society's
annual meeting in October.
Philip P. Connell, M.D., of the University of Chicago, will receive the Junior Faculty Research Award.
Matthew T. Carpenter, M.D., of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Christopher D. Jahraus, M.D., of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington; and
Emma Elizabeth Thomas, M.D., Ch.B., of the Cookridge Hospital in the United Kingdom, will receive the Resident Clinical/Basic Science Research Award.
- Rochelle L. Krowinski, R.N., C.H.E., has been appointed executive
director of regional network development at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in
Buffalo, N.Y. Krowinski was previously at the Regional Cancer Center in Erie,
Pa., where she served as chief executive officer.
- The National Foundation for Cancer Research has awarded its highest
distinction to Curt Civin, M.D., the Herman and Walter Samuelson
Professor of Oncology and co-director of immunology and hematopoiesis at the
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore, for his pioneering stem cell
research. The award includes at $250,000, 5-year grant to support his research
on how stem cells function to help improve bone marrow transplants for cancer
patients.
- Richard A. Gross, M.D., has been named leader of the new Internal
and Hospital Medicine Program at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research
Center in Tampa, Fla. Gross was previously a professor of clinical medicine
and chief of the section of general internal medicine at the University of
Arizona College of Medicine.
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