Posted: May 27, 2019 After Scott Gottlieb’s resignation as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in early March, the Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar […] Read more
Posted: May 27, 2019 Howard (Jack) West, MD, has moved from the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, where he directed the medical oncology component of thoracic oncology program, to City of […] Read more
Posted: March 1, 2019 Adi Gazdar, MD, a true giant in the field of lung cancer research, passed away on December 29, 2018. Dr. Gazdar was the W. Ray Wallace […] Read more
Posted: March 1, 2019 Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, was elected to serve as the 2018-2019 president-elect of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Rusch is the vice chair for […] Read more
Posted: March 1, 2019 Waun Ki Hong, MD, the “father of chemoprevention” and renowned cancer researcher and mentor, died on January 2, 2019, at the age of 76. Dr. Hong’s […] Read more
Posted: December 2018 Fred R. Hirsch, MD, resigned from his position of IASLC CEO at the end of October and has joined Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City as […] Read more
Posted: December 2018 James P. Allison, PhD, and Tasuku Honjo, PhD, MD, were jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their breakthrough accomplishments in cancer immunotherapy, […] Read more
Posted: October 2018 Antoinette Wozniak, MD, moved to Hillman Cancer Center at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in September 2018, where she is now a professor of medicine, leader of […] Read more
Posted: October 2018 Raymond Osarogiagbon, MBBS, FACP, has been selected as a member-elect to the Fleischner Society. Founded in 1969, the Fleischner Society is a collegial, multidisciplinary international thoracic imaging […] Read more
Posted: October 2018 James D. Cox, MD, a leader in the radiation oncology community and pioneer of proton therapy, passed away in August, just a month after his 80th birthday. […] Read more