April 2016

Frances A. Shepherd, has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada for her leadership in improving treatment options and outcomes for individuals with advanced lung cancer. Dr. Shepherd is Senior Staff Physician at The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada, where she holds the Scott Taylor Chair in Lung Cancer Research. She…

Joan H. Schiller has been appointed Deputy Director for Clinical Investigation at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Falls Church, US. Dr. Schiller was previously the Professor and Chief, Hematology/Oncology Division at the UT Southwestern Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Ravi Salgia has been appointed Chair for the Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research and the Associate Director for Clinical Sciences in City of Hope’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, US. Dr. Salgia was on faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for a decade and then moved to the University of Chicago as the Director…

Suresh S. Ramalingam, has been appointed Deputy Director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and Assistant Dean for Cancer Research in the Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, US. Dr. Ramalingam previously was Director of Medical Oncology at Winship and its Lung Cancer Program, and co-led Winship’s Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Program. He is also…

Prof Sylvie Lantuejoul moved in May 2015 to Centre Léon Bérard, a cancer institute under the aegis of the Unicancer Consortium in Lyon, France. She continues as Professor in Pathology at the Grenoble Alpes University. Prof Lantuejoul also works for the National Reference Center, MESOPATH-dir Pr F Galateau-Sallé, a French network dedicated to the diagnosis of…

Lee M. Krug has taken a position as the Immuno-Oncology Disease Area Head for Lung and Head & Neck Cancers in US Medical at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He assumes this role following 15 years on the Thoracic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he focused his clinical research primarily in small-cell lung cancer…

Karen Kelly, has been named chair of the Lung Committee of SWOG, one of the US’s leading cooperative cancer research organizations. Dr. Kelly is Professor of Medicine, holds the Jennifer Rene Harmon Tegley and Elizabeth Erica Harmon Endowed Chair in Cancer Clinical Research, and is the Associate Director for Clinical Research at at the UC…

Bruce E. Johnson has been elected President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for the term beginning in June 2017. Dr. Johnson is Chief Clinical Research Officer and Institute Physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, US, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Lung Cancer…

Dr. Federico Cappuzzo, has been appointed as the new Director of Medical Oncology at Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale (AUSL) della Romagna in Ravenna, Italy. Dr. Cappuzzo was previously the Director of the Medical Oncology Department at the Ospedale Civile, Livorno.