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Awards, Appointments, Announcements

{blacksquare} Agustin Garcia, M.D., has been appointed director of breast cancer research at the Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, Garcia served as director of the Clinical Investigation Support Office at the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he also held an appointment as a visiting associate professor of medicine.

{blacksquare} Bruce Boman, M.D., Ph.D., has been elected president of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer for the term 2003–2004.

Boman is professor of medicine and of immunology and microbiology and director of the Division of Genetic and Preventive Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He directs the program for Hereditary Cancer and the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center.

The goal of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer is to improve understanding of inherited colorectal cancer and the clinical management of affected families.

{blacksquare} Ehab Y. Hanna, M.D., joined the faculty of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, as professor and co-director of the skull base tumor program in the Head and Neck Center.

Hanna was previously professor and vice-chair of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

{blacksquare} Several new officers were installed at the annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Orlando in February.

Armand Keating, M.D., chief of medical services at Princess Margaret Hospital/Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, became the president.

Nelson J. Chao, professor of medicine and director of the Division of Hematology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., became president-elect and will assume the presidency in 2005.

Robert S. Negrin, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation at Stanford University, was elected vice president and will become president in 2006.

{blacksquare} Norman G. Rosenblum, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia. He has also been appointed clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

Rosenblum was previously chief of gynecologic oncology in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia.



             
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