PATRICK SOON-SHIONG was named global director for cancer services and bioinformatics of Providence Health & Services.
Joyce Wong named certified pediatric nurse of the year by Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation
JOYCE WONG was named the 2014 Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse of the Year by the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation.
JAMES DAVIS was elected chairman of the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
CHARLES LEMAISTRE and HANS MARK were named chancellors emeriti of the University of Texas System Board of Regents.
THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ONCOLOGY named the winners of the society's annual awards, which will be presented Sept. 26 at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.
JENNIFER ZEITZER was named deputy director of the Office of Public Affairs of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
RICHARD DAVID was named a clinical professor of urology, voluntary, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
MICHAEL BOOKMAN will join Arizona Oncology, a practice in The US Oncology Network, and will serve as medical director of the US Oncology Research Gynecology Research Program, effective Oct. 6.
DAVID ESPEY stepped down as acting director of the CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, a position he has held since Feb. 3.
RICHARD WAHL was named the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor and head of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He also will serve as director of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. He will begin in October.