THE AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY plans to fund three centers of excellence to study how high-performing health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. The grants were announced at AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting in Minneapolis by Richard Kronick, director of AHRQ.
JOHN ZAIA was named director of the Center for Gene Therapy within City of Hope's Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation Institute.
JOHN SAMPSON was named chair of the new Department of Neurosurgery within the Duke University School of Medicine.
THE CANCER LETTERreceived a first place2015 Dateline Award for Excellence in Local Journalismfrom the Society of Professional Journalists June 9. The award recognizesMatthew Ong'sseries “Power Morcellation: A Hazardous Practice” as the winner in the Newsletter, Washington, D.C., category.
THE SCRIPPS MERCY O'TOOLE Breast Care Center opened on the campus of Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego. The $5.3 million facility is located on the second floor of the Scripps Medical Building, and replaces the temporary breast health facility that opened last year near Scripps Mercy Hospital.
CHRIS4LIFE COLON CANCER FOUNDATION and Smart Patients launched DATABLUE, a clinical trial database that helps colon cancer patients navigate trial processes on June 4.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY published Practical Tips for the Oncology Practice 6th Edition, a comprehensive business and management resource for oncology practices on June 8.
KAREN KNUDSEN was named director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University.
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH and Bayer HealthCare announced a partnership to expand AACR's Basic Cancer Research Fellowship Program for 2015.
THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS named 22 early-career researchers as Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences—as well as five scholars for cancer research, funded in partnership with the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust.
