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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Ernest T. Hawk, M.D., has been named director of the National
Cancer Institute's Office of Centers, Training, and Resources. He was
previously chief of the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention's Gastrointestinal
and Other Cancers Research Group. In his new position, Hawk will oversee the Cancer Centers Branch, the Cancer Training Branch, the Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch, and the Organ Systems Branch, which have a combined grant portfolio of more than $500 million.
Susan Horwitz, Ph.D., received the Mayor's Lifetime
Achievement Award for Excellence in Biological and Medical Sciences
administered for the City of New York by the New York Academy of Sciences.
Horwitz is professor and co-chair of molecular pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York. The award recognizes Horwitz's research that led to the development of paclitaxel as a treatment for ovarian, breast, and lung cancers.
The Society for Integrative Oncology has presented awards for
pioneering work in complementary cancer treatment to two individuals:
Stephen Straus, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Vincent
DeVita, M.D., professor of epidemiology and public health at the Yale
University School of Medicine.
The society is a new multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the study and application of complementary therapies for cancer patients.
William Evans, Pharm.D., has been named director of the St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Evans took over for Arthur
Nienhuis, M.D., on November 1. Nienhuis will devote his time to the
experimental hematology research program after a year-long sabbatical.
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society honored five researchers with its
Stohlman Scholar Award: Stephen Buratowski, Ph.D., Harvard Medical
School, Boston; Gay Crooks, M.D., Children's Hospital Los Angeles and
the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; George
Daley, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital,
Boston; Laurence Eisenlohr, Ph.D., V.M.D., Thomas Jefferson University
Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia; and Steven Gore, M.D., Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
The American Cancer Society presented its 2004 annual awards to five
honorees during a ceremony in Atlanta in November.
Malcolm C. Pike, Ph.D., professor of preventive medicine at the Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, and Isaiah J. Fidler, D.V.M., Ph.D., chairman of the department of cancer biology and director of the cancer metastasis research center at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, each received a distinguished service award in recognition of major achievements in the field of cancer.
Margaret A. Pierce, R.N., an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee's College of Nursing in Knoxville, and Barbara Grevior, a former educator who has served ACS for 30 years, were awarded national volunteer leadership awards in recognition of long and exemplary service to the society.
Kathleen M. Foley, M.D., an attending neurologist in the Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and a professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, received the humanitarian award for her dedication to the improvement of cancer control and for genuine accomplishment in human welfare.
The American Cancer Society has announced the results of its recent
election of officers for its national board of directors: Stephen F. Sener,
M.D., Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago,
president; Thomas G. Burish, Ph.D., Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Va., chairman; Carolyn D. Runowicz, M.D., Carole and Ray
Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, Farmington, Conn., president-elect; Sally
West Brooks, R.N., Palm Springs, Calif., chair-elect; Anna
Johnson-Winegar, Ph.D., Middletown, Md., vice chairman; Richard C.
Wender, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, vice
president-elect; Elmer E. Huerta, M.D., Washington Hospital Center,
Washington, D.C., second vice president; G. Van Velsor Wolf Jr.,
Phoenix, Ariz., treasurer; and Marion E. Morra, Sc.D., Yale School of
Nursing, New Haven, Conn., secretary.
Raymond N. DuBois, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of
the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville. DuBois will succeed the
center's founding director, Harold L. Moses, M.D. DuBois, who will
assume his new position on January 1, 2005, is currently an associate director
for Cancer Prevention and Control and holds the Hortense B. Ingram Chair in
Molecular Oncology at the center.
The H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa,
Fla., has made three new appointments.
Susan Hoover, M.D., a surgical oncologist formerly at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, has joined the Don & Erika Wallace Comprehensive Breast Program.
Björn Holmström, M.D., has joined the Internal and Hospital Medicine Program. Holmström was previously at the Mercer University School of Medicine.
Sajeel Chowdhary, M.D., has joined the Neuro-Oncology Program.
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