The Association of Cancer Center Administrators presented its inaugural ACCA Career Achievement Award to Beverly Ginsburg Cooper, managing director at the Huron Consulting Group, on March 16. Given at the CCA Annual Business Meeting in Seattle, the ACCA Career Achievement Award recognizes current members of the Association of Cancer Center Administrators or former members of the Cancer Centers Administrators Forum who have demonstrated exemplary dedication, leadership, and lasting contributions to the field of cancer administration.
Jeffrey E. Lee was appointed chief medical executive at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, effective April 1.
Michael Chan was appointed chair of Wake Forest University’s Department of Radiation Oncology, which he has led as interim chair since 2023. In his permanent role, he will advance the clinical, research and education missions of the department, while optimizing care delivery and clinical operations.
Walter J. “Wally” Curran, Jr. has been named the Whitaker Endowed Chief of Piedmont Oncology. This bestowed title is supported by the Piedmont Foundation’s Whitaker Endowment, a fund created by the Atlanta community in tribute to Piedmont’s cancer surgical leader, William Whitaker.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center has named John Turchi, the inaugural executive director of the Tom and Julie Wood Center for Lung Cancer Research.
Tracy Smith has joined Ashish Deshmukh as a co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.
The Cancer Research Institute is committing $2.5 million in reserve funding to support an additional postdoctoral fellowships in the face of federal instability.
The University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute has earned the Cancer Center designation from NCI.
Elana J. Fertig was named associate director for quantitative science at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine invested Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, a tenured professor of medicine and the research director of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Myeloma Center, in the Bart Barlogie Chair for Myeloma Research during a March 13 ceremony. xxx:moreZhan is the inaugural holder of the endowed chair.Zhan’s rese
