JULIE BRAHMER was named director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
Brahmer will oversee a $35 million investment in the program and the opening of the new Thoracic Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, as well as clinical trials and research focused on lung and esophageal cancer and mesothelioma.
Brahmer has been a faculty member at Johns Hopkins since 2001. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group’s Thoracic Committee and Cancer Prevention Steering Committee. A founding board member of the National Lung Cancer Partnership, now known as Free to Breathe, she currently serves as a member of its Scientific Executive Committee.
She also sits on the Lung Cancer Research Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board, Uniting Against Lung Cancer’s Medical Committee and LUNGevity’s Scientific Advisory Board.
