| | | Deborah Watkins Bruner, PhD, RN, Winship associate director for mentorship, education and training, was honored at the 43rd annual meeting of the Oncology Nursing Society in Washington, D.C., May 17-20, 2018. Bruner received the 2018 Rose Mary Carroll-Johnson Distinguished Award for Consistent Contribution to Nursing Literature. Winship oncology nursing teams presented clinical research throughout the conference, which drew an estimated 4,000 participants. Pictured (clockwise from top left): Bruner; poster presenter Carrie Belmore, RN, BSN, OCN; speaker Hannah Collins, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNS; Belmore, Collins, Colleen Lewis, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNS, and Edith Brutcher, BSN, MSN, APN-BC, AOCNP. | Read More |
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| | Wechsler Named Thomas R. Giddens Chair for Oncology | Winship member Daniel Wechsler, MD, PhD, director of pediatric oncology at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, was honored with the Thomas R. Giddens Chair for Oncology. Pictured: Wechsler (seated) with Vikas Sukhatme, MD, ScD, Douglas Graham, MD, PhD, Thomas R. Giddens, and Kathelen and Dan Amos.
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| | | | Meisel Recognized as Health Care Hero Finalist | Winship medical oncologist Jane Meisel, MD from the Glenn Family Breast Center was named as a finalist by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in the annual Health Care Heroes Awards competition. Meisel was nominated in the Rising Star category. Meisel specializes in treating patients with breast and gynecologic cancers, including breast, cervical, endometrial, and ovarian cancers.
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| | Tian Receives ASCO Merit Award | Radiation oncology resident Sibo Tian, MD is the recipient of a 2018 Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Award for his abstract, "Survival Outcomes by HPV Status in Non-Oropharyngeal Head and Neck Cancers: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis of Population Level Data." Tian will present his research during an oral abstract session on June 3 at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago.
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| | | | Escott and Madden To Be Honored at ASTRO | Two radiation oncology residents will receive awards at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting in October. Chase Escott, MD, mentored by Kristin Higgins, MD, earned the Resident Poster Viewing Recognition Award. Nicholas Madden, MD, mentored by Mohammad Khan, MD, PhD, earned the Resident Poster Discussion Recognition Award.
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| | | This week we take you to India where Winship members recently traveled to meet with collaborators on their National Cancer Institute P20 Regional Center for Research Excellence grant. The project, "Planning a Regional Center of Research Excellence in Non-Communicable Diseases in India," includes Drs. Michael Goodman, MD (principal investigator), Theresa Gillespie, and Kevin Ward, PhD, MPH. Pictured: P20 Stakeholder's Committee meeting participants including Goodman and Gillespie, Alpa V. Patel, PhD from the American Cancer Society, and colleagues from India. | Learn More |
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| | Kucuk Keynotes Research Day at Philadelphia College | Winship medical oncologist Omer Kucuk, MD gave the keynote address at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine's Georgia campus for its 8th Annual Research Day held May 15. Kucuk talk was titled, "Botanicals in Integrative Cancer Medicine and Health."
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| | | | Winship Urology Specialists Present at National Meeting | Nearly a dozen Winship clinicians and trainees presented at the 113th annual meeting of the American Urologic Association May 18-21 in San Francisco. Among the presenters, Winship urologist Christopher Filson, MD participated in a debate on MRI as a biomarker in prostate cancer.
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| | May 25 - No Elkin Lecture |
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| Winship's grants aggregator automatically updates each morning with the newest federal funding opportunities from grants.gov: |
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| - NSF Grant: Electrochemical Systems (Due: Oct. 22, 2018)
- NIH R01: Precision Imaging of Oral Lesions (Due: Sep. 5, 2018) |
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