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Electra Paskett named director of the Alliance Cancer Control Program and PI for the Alliance NCORP Research Base

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Electra D. Paskett was named director of the Alliance Cancer Control Program and principal investigator for the Alliance NCORP Research Base.

Paskett is the Marion N. Rowley Professor of Cancer Research and director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control in the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. She is also professor of epidemiology in the OSU College of Public Health.

Paskett has been a leader of Alliance cancer control programs since 2011 when the group was founded by the merger of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, Cancer and Leukemia Group B, and the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. Most recently, she served as chair of the Alliance Health Disparities Committee and multiple-PI of the Alliance NCORP Research Base.

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