Well, I hope I’m having a good time on vacation. I actually posted this before I left so I wouldn’t eat into my two hour email allowance.
Although I think the programs have already announced this, I want to make sure that everyone knows we have three terrific recruits starting in the next month or so.
First, Lucile Adams-Campbell, the Director of the Howard University Cancer Center, is joining us to be the Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research. Lucile is an internationally-recognized epidemiologist with particular expertise in nutrition and physical activity, as well as fostering health disparity research and conducting community health interventions and outreach. Lucile will be a vibrant member of the CGE Program, and her years of experience and important leadership role in the DC cancer community will add a special dimension to our leadership team.
Subha Madhavan joins us on October 1st from NCI where she has played a major role in the organization and execution of the caBIG enterprise. Her recruitment allows us to move forward with the design and implementation of the G-DOC concept. So we’re very excited to have her joining us.
On a related note, you may have seen the press release regarding our collaboration with Indivumed for patient sample acquisition, processing, and data entry. These two developments put us in an excellent position to move forward with our plans to create an integrated clinical molecular database for selected cancers.
And last, but certainly not least, Arnie Potosky joins us from the NCI. He is an internationally-recognized health services researcher who will be the Director of Heath Services Research within the Cancer Control Program. In this role, Arnie will lead a national caliber health services research program at Lombardi that builds on the wornderful foundation established by Jeanne Mandelblatt and colleagues. I’m delighted we are able to add someone of his distinction to our faculty and look forward to his active interaction with our clinical providers and with researchers across the spectrum of Lombardi activities.
I am out of town and therefore can’t comment on this week’s faculty seminar. Sorry Rebecca. But maybe there is a brave soul who can post something to the comments.
See you in September! (Does anybody remember that song?)
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See you in September! (Does anybody remember that song?)
“Or loose you, to a summer love”
Enjoy LBI
Chip
Speaking of September, I have on my calendar the GUMC convocation with Leroy Hood speaking at 3 pm. And, in an early email and yesterday at the Senate Caucus I have heard that each sector has a morning program. There has been no recent communication or alerts on this. Is more information coming out shortly?
As Tony mentioned earlier, the blog is a great idea, but I must get used to the blogosphere (and how to spell it).
Susette, the only information I was able to find is this article from the GUMC Update.
“Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s session begins at 11:00 a.m. in the Warwick Evans Room in Building D. Milton Brown, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Drug Discovery Program, and Dr. Hood will discuss the topic “Drug Discovery and Systems Medicine.” ”
I contacted Lou (who is still on vacation) and he said he will be out of town that day, so he asked Milt to lead the Lombardi discussion about drug discovery at the convocation. I will let you know if I can find out anything else.