JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(19):1418-1419; doi:10.1093/jnci/96.19.1418
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
- Daniel G. Schultz, M.D., has been selected to lead the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, which is
responsible for the review of all medical devices and radiation-emitting
products, such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment and x-ray machines.
Schultz had been acting director of the center since April.
- Eight researchers have been named Avon Scholar Hosts as part of the Avon
Foundation—American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) International
Scholar Awards for Breast Cancer Research Program: Christine B. Ambrosone,
Ph.D., and Margot M. Ip, Ph.D., Roswell Park Cancer Institute,
Buffalo, N.Y.; David M. Livingston, M.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Boston; Bonnie F. Sloane, Ph.D., Wayne State University, Detroit;
Ann D. Thor, M.D., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center,
Oklahoma City; Robert B. Dickson, Ph.D., Lombardi Cancer Center,
Georgetown University, Washington; Regina M. Santella, Ph.D., Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health, New York; and Eric J.
Stanbridge, Ph.D., University of California College of Medicine,
Irvine.
- The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology has announced
the results of its recent election:
- K. Kian Ang, M.D.,
Ph.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,
has been named president-elect.
- Albert L. Blumberg, M.D., of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center,
was elected the Government Relations Council vice-chair.
- Anthony L. Zietman, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston, has been named the Education Council vice-chair.
- The City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, Calif., has made two new
appointments:
- Kemp H. Kernstine, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the
Department of Thoracic Oncologic Surgery in the Division of Surgery. Kernstine
was previously a professor in the division of cardiothoracic surgery at the
University of Iowa.
- Kevin Chan, M.D., has joined the Department of Urology and Urologic
Oncology.
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has made several
appointments:
- Ronald H. Gottlieb, M.D., and Farin M. Tomaszewski, M.D.,
have joined the Department of Radiology. Gottlieb previously served as the
director of clinical research at the University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry. Tomaszewski was previously at the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center.
- Mohamed K. Khan, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed attending physician
in the Department of Radiation Medicine and director of basic and
translational research. Khan was previously an assistant professor in the
Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan Medical
Center.
- In the Department of Medicine, Bagirathan Janarthan, M.D., has been
named an attending physician in the Division of Breast Cancer, and Josephia
Muindi, M.D., Ph.D., has been named associate translational scientist.
- Robert L. Satcher,
M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Robert H.
Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago, has
been named an astronaut candidate by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
- Arthur D. Riggs, Ph.D., director of City of Hope's Beckman Research
Institute in Duarte, Calif., has received the 2004 Technology Leadership Award
from the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership. Riggs co-developed research
techniques that led to the development of a process to make human proteins
from microorganisms.
- Ken Kobayashi, M.D., has left the National Cancer Institute to take
a position in early clinical development at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. He
will work for a short time in the company's Florham Park, N.J., facility
before taking on a 3-year assignment in Tokyo with Novartis Japan.
- Setsuko K. Chambers, M.D., has been named the director of women's
cancers at the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson and also been appointed
professor of gynecologic oncology for the University of Arizona. Chambers
comes from the Yale University School of Medicine, where she was director of
the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program.
- Thomas J. Kipps, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed holder of the
Evelyn and Edwin Tasch Chair in Cancer Research in the University of
California, San Diego School of Medicine. Kipps is a professor of medicine in
the UCSD School of Medicine, deputy director for research at the Rebecca and
John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, and associate director of the UCSD Human Gene
Therapy Program.
- The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
in Chicago has made two new appointments:
- Sarah Rice, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Cell and
Molecular Biology Department and a member of the center's Tumor Invasion,
Metastasis, and Angiogenesis Program.
- Paul Stein, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Dermatology
Department and a member of the center's Breast Cancer Program and Hormone
Action and Signal Transduction in Cancer Program.
- Mary B. Todd, D.O., deputy director of the Cancer Institute of New
Jersey in New Brunswick, will receive the Leadership in Patient Care Award
from the CINJ at a their Ninth Annual Award of Hope Gala in October.
- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus has made
several appointments to its cancer staff:
- Carlo M. Croce,
M.D., will direct the Human Cancer Genetics Program and chair the
Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics. Croce, a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, was previously director of the
Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson
University. Renato Baserga, M.D., has been named interim director of
the Kimmel Cancer Center in his place.
- Joel H. Saltz, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed chair of the
Department of Biomedical Informatics at the College of Medicine and Public
Health and was named the Dorothy M. Davis Chair in Cancer Research.
- Michael Knopp, M.D., Ph.D., has been named chair of the Department
of Radiology at the Ohio State University Medical Center.
- Mary E. Ropka, Ph.D., R.N., a clinical epidemiologist and nurse
scientist, has joined the Division of Population Science at Fox Chase Cancer
Center in Philadelphia.
- The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has
selected Linda Woodward, a wound, ostomy, and incontinence nurse, to
receive the 2004 Ethel Fleming Arceneaux Outstanding Nurse Oncologist
Award.
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