Surgeon and thoracic surgical oncologist Bryan Burt was named chief of thoracic surgery and professor of surgery at UCLA Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
When Helene Brown, a cancer control pioneer who jokingly described herself as “the first in a long line of political oncologists,” delivered the keynote address at the Oncology Nursing Society annual meeting in 1990, she set forth bold predictions for the ensuing 20 years of the field: appointments conducted over “computerphone,” major genetic breakthroughs, and universal healthcare.
