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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Setsuko K. Chambers, M.D., professor of gynecologic oncology and director of the division of women's cancers at the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, has been awarded the Bobbi Olson Endowed Chair in Ovarian Cancer Research.
Ralph deVere White, M.D., director of the University of California Davis Cancer Center, has been named president-elect of the Society of Urologic Oncology.
Alan List, M.D., division chief of the hematologic malignancies program and co-director of the infusion center at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., was elected the ninth recipient of the Emil J. Freireich Award for Clinical Research among young investigators from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., has announced several new appointments:
Timothy Yeatman, M.D., has been named the new associate center director for translational research and director of total cancer care. Daniel Sullivan, M.D., will replace Yeatman as associate center director for clinical investigations.
James Mulé, Ph.D., currently associate center director for translational science and technology development, has been named associate center director for applied science and technology.
John Koomen, Ph.D., has been appointed assistant professor in the molecular oncology program and will serve as the scientific director of the Proteomics Core Facility.
Mark Rapp, M.D., has been named an assistant professor in the palliative care section of the psychosocial and palliative care program.
Marilyn Bui, M.D., Ph.D., a surgical pathologist and cytopathologist, has been named as assistant professor in the pathology division.
Mary Edgerton, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed as associate professor in the pathology division and will chair the research information technology committee and direct Moffit's research bioinformatics efforts.
Deirdre M. Lawrence, Ph.D., an epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute, has been selected as a Mansfield Fellow by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. The foundation promotes understanding and coordination between the countries of Asia and the United States.
Rear Adm. Linda R. Tollefson, D.V.M., has been named assistant commissioner for science at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Tollefson will also serve as the FDA's Coordinator for Commissioned Corps Affairs and direct the Offices of Women's Health and Orphan Products Development.
Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., has won the 25th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research. Willett is chairman of the department of nutrition and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. He was honored for his work on the epidemiologic study of dietary factors in the cause and prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York has made several appointments.
Carol A. Aghajanian, M.D., has been named chief of the newly renamed gynecologic medical oncology service in the department of medicine.
David W. Kissane, M.D., chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has been named to an Alfred P. Sloan Chair.
Pier Paolo Pandolfi, M.D., Ph.D., a cancer geneticist and head of the molecular and developmental biology laboratory, has been named the first incumbent of the Albert C. Foster Chair.
Gavril W. Pasternak, M.D., Ph.D., head of the molecular neuropharmacology laboratory, has been named to the Anne Burnett Tandy Chair of Neurology.
John H.J. Petrini, Ph.D., head of the laboratory of chromosome biology in the Sloan-Kettering Institute, has been named to the Paul G. Marks Chair in Molecular Cell Biology.
Roger S. Wilson, M.D., chairman of the department of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, has been named to the Founder's Chair.
Harold Varmus, M.D., president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science.
Eugene R. Kraus has been named director of cancer center informatics at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit and has been appointed as an adjunct instructor at Wayne State University.
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