Flashcards: American oncologists

Leonard C. Erickson was the Robert Wallace Miller Professor of Oncology at the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Cancer Center, and he also served as Deputy Director of the Indiana University Cancer Center.

Vincent Theodore DeVita, Jr.

Robert Peter Gale (born October 11, 1945) is an American physician and medical researcher.

James Frederick Holland (born May 25, 1925) is an American physician and Distinguished Professor of Neoplastic Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

Stuart A. Aaronson, M.

Peter C. Nowell, MD, (born February 8, 1928) is a cancer researcher and co-discoverer of the Philadelphia Chromosome.

Dr. Harry V. Gelboin (1929-2010) was a cancer research scientist who made major contributions to our knowledge of chemical carcinogenesis.

Donald Lee Morton (September 12, 1934 - January 10, 2014) was an American oncologist who was best known for developing sentinel lymph node evaluation, a procedure that, by some estimates, saves the U.

Eugene Nicholas Myers (born November 27, 1933) is an oncologist and otolaryngologist and a leader in the treatment of head and neck cancer.

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa (also known as "Dr. Q") is a neurosurgeon, author, and researcher.

John A. Boockvar is a neurosurgeon.

Jonathan W. Simons, MD is a physician-scientist, medical oncologist, and an internationally recognized leader in prostate cancer research.

Joseph H. Burchenal, MD (December 21, 1912 – March 8, 2006) was an American oncologist, and a winner of the 1972 Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research for his work on developing a chemotherapy for Burkitt's lymphoma.

Arie S. Belldegrun (born 1949), MD, FACS, is an Israeli-born American urologic oncologist, businessman, and investor.

David H. Gorski is an American surgical oncologist, Professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, specializing in breast cancer surgery.

Thomas P. Loughran, Jr.

John C. Ruckdeschel is an American oncologist who has written 160 peer reviewed articles.

Steven A. Rosenberg (born 2 August 1940) is a Jewish American cancer researcher and surgeon.

Juan A. del Regato (1 March 1909—12 June 1999) was an oncologist.

Kenneth J. Pienta is the Donald S.

James Stephen Ewing (/ˈjuːɪŋ/) (December 25, 1866, Pittsburgh – May 16, 1943, New York City) was an American pathologist.

Shahrokh François Shariatis currently professor and chairman of the Department of Urology at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Austria.

Wolfram Samlowski is a medical oncologist with Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada (CCCN) and a member of the Research Developmental Therapeutics and Genitourinary Committees for US Oncology.

Yehuda Patt is a liver cancer specialist, gastrointestinal oncologist, and Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico, and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Stanley Joel Korsmeyer (8 June 1950 – 31 March 2005) was an American oncologist.

Howard Earle Skipper (born in Avon Park, Florida on November 21, 1915; died in Mountain Brook, Alabama on January 2, 2006) was a noted American oncologist.

Henry Harrington Janeway (19 March 1873 – 1 February 1921) was an American physician and pioneer of radiation therapy.

Fadlo R. Khuri is a Lebanese-American oncologist specializing in the study of cancers of the lung and aerodigestive tract.

Dennis Joseph Slamon (born August 8, 1948), is an American oncologist and chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA.

James Lewis Abbruzzese, MD is the Chief of the Duke Division of Medical Oncology and Associate Director for Clinical Research for the Duke Cancer Institute.

William G. Nelson M.

Marc Straus is an art gallery owner, poet and a retired oncologist.

Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, M.

Steven K. Libutti, FACS (born April 18, 1964) is an American surgeon and scientist.

Carlos Cordon-Cardo (born 1957) is a Spanish-born American physician and scientist known for his research in experimental pathology and molecular oncology.

O. Carl Simonton (born 29 June 1942 in Los Angeles, died 18 June 2009 Agoura Hills) was a specialist in radiology and oncology.

Brian J. Druker (born April 30, 1955) is a physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University, in Portland, Oregon.

William K. Oh, M.

William S. Dalton is an American physician and oncologist, who is board certified in internal medicine and oncology.

Rolf Parker Griffith, Jr.

William Bradley Coley (January 12, 1862 – April 16, 1936) was an American bone surgeon and cancer researcher, pioneer of cancer immunotherapy.

Douglas R. Lowy (born c. 1940s) is the Acting Director of the U.

Kenneth Offit (born February 19, 1955) is an American cancer geneticist and oncologist.

Bernard Salomon Lewinsky (born January 10, 1943) is a Salvadoran-born American physician and medical researcher.

Professor Minesh P Mehta, MD, FASTRO, is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist of Indian origin, Ugandan birth, Zambian Schooling and American Training, who contributed to the field of oncology for more than two and half decades.

Nicholas J. Vogelzang is a medical oncologist with Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada (CCCN).

Frederick Pei Li (May 7, 1940 – June 12, 2015) was a Chinese-American physician.

Marisa C. Weiss, M.

Robert Abbe (April 13, 1851 – March 7, 1928) was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City.

Barnett Rosenberg (16 November 1926 – 8 August 2009) was an American chemist best known for the discovery of the anti-cancer drug cisplatin.

Mary Stults Sherman (April 21, 1913 – July 21, 1964) was an orthopedic surgeon and cancer researcher in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Craig B. Thompson (born 1953) is an American cell biologist and current president of the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center.

Jane Cooke Wright (also known as "Jane Jones") (November 30, 1919 – February 19, 2013) was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy.

Jerome E. Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker since 1998.