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Raymond Osarogiagbon, MBBS, FACP, incoming chair of IASLC’s membership committee, will receive the 2017 Association of Community Cancer Centers Clinical Research Award. This award is given in recognition of research that has significantly and positively impacted the oncology patient, family, and community. Dr. Osarogiagbon is director of the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program at the Baptist…

Posted: October 2017 PJ Souquet, MD was appointed President of The French Cooperative Thoracic Intergroup (Intergroupe Francophone de Cancèrologie Thoracique IFCT). Dr. Souquet, is Head of Service at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, and Associate Professor of Medecine, at South-Lyon University, France.

Ravi Salgia, MD, PhD, was awarded the IACA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Oncology by the Indo-American Cancer Association (IACA). This award is given to medical oncologists and researchers who have helped define modern cancer medicine. Dr. Salgia is the Arthur & Rosalie Kaplan Chair in Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research at City of Hope,…

Solange Peters, MD, PhD, was elected President for 2020-2021 of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). Professor Peters is Head of the Medical Oncology Service, Chair of Thoracic Oncology, Oncology Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Naiyer A. Rizvi, MD, was named to the ARMO BioSciences, Inc., Board of Directors, Redwood City, US. Dr. Rizvi is Director of Thoracic Oncology and Co-Director of Cancer Immunotherapy, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, US, and holds the Price Chair in Clinical Translational Research.

David R. Gandara, MD, was honored as the lung cancer “Giant of Cancer Care” in the 2017 Giants of Cancer Care® recognition program by OncLive. Awardees are selected by their peers for advancing the field of oncology by contributions in research and clinical practice. Dr. Gandara is Professor and Director of Thoracic Oncology at UC…

Roman V. Petrov, MD, PhD, has been appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center; and Assistant Professor, Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, US. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Petrov served as an Attending Physician and Chief of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Memorial…

Gideon M. Blumenthal, MD was named Acting Deputy Director, Office of Hematology & Oncology Products, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, US. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Blumenthal was Clinical Team Leader for Thoracic Oncology and Head and Neck Cancer and Scientific Liaison for Lung Cancer in the Division of Oncology Products, Office of…

Clinical Trial Leader and Patient Champion Passes Away at 71 Robert L. Comis, MD, passed away suddenly in his home on May 10, 2017. He was 71. A leader in international oncology research since 1977, Dr. Comis was a champion of patient access to clinical studies in cancer, spearheading initiatives to raise awareness about the…

Posted: June 2017 Prof. Nir Peled was elected Head of the European Respiratory Society Thoracic Oncology Assembly. Prof. Peled is a pulmonologist and medical oncologist. He is the head of the Thoracic Cancer Unit and The Center of Precision Cancer Care at Davidoff Cancer Center, and Associate Professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv…