May 16 - Mary Horowitz, MD, MS, Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. Chair in Hematologic Research, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Hematology and Oncology, was inducted into the Association of American Physicians (AAP) at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago.
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Apr 19 - Bryon D. Johnson, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology and Oncology) at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has been appointed to the Cancer Immunopathology and Immunotherapy Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. The study section reviews research proposals addressing immunologic therapies of cancer and antibody-based therapies as potential cancer treatments.
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Jan. 22 - Gary Stoner, PhD, (Medicine – Hematology/Oncology) provides expert comment in a Northwestern University Medill Reports article on the cardiovascular benefits of blueberries and strawberries. Medill
Jan. 22 - In an WTMJ-TV(NBC) report, Dr. Donald Hackbarth (Orthopaedic Surgery) comments on the case of a young woman treated for bone cancer. WTMJ TV
Nov. 28 - Parameswaran Hari, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology and oncology), has been named the first Armand J. Quick/William F. Stapp Professor in Hematology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Hari is an internationally renowned researcher in multiple myeloma, and serves as director of the adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program (BMT) at Froedtert Hospital. He is also the scientific director for the plasma cells disorder working committee at the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.
The MCW Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research was awarded renewal of the Stem Cell Therapeutics Outcomes Database contract with the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. News-Medical.Net
Nov., 02 - The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) successfully competed for, and was awarded, renewal of the Stem Cell Therapeutics Outcomes Database contract with the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The CIBMTR administers the database as a key component of the national hematopoietic cell transplantation program. Hematopoietic stem cells are the cells responsible for continual regeneration of circulating blood cells throughout life; they are not embryonic stem cells.
Elizabeth Gore, MD, professor of radiation oncology and associate director of radiation oncology at the Zablocki VA Medical Center, finds stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with surgery and/or radiation therapy have a significantly reduced risk of developing brain metastases if they also receive prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI). Science Daily
The 99th annual commencement took place on May 18 at the Milwaukee Theatre, at which the Medical College of Wisconsin and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences awarded 202 MD, 38 PhD, 27 MS, 4 MA, and 18 Master of Public Health degrees, as well as bestowed numerous honors.
June 21 - Mary M. Horowitz, MD, MS, Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. Professor of Hematologic Research, Professor of Medicine, and a preeminent international leader in blood and bone marrow transplantation, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Dr. Horowitz, who is also the June 21 - Scientific Director of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), has served as interim Chief of Hematology/Oncology for the past two years.
June 14 - The Sam Memorial Golf Outing will be held Saturday, June16, at Scenic View Country Club, 4415 Club Drive in Slinger. Proceeds from the event will support leukemia and other cancer research being conducted by David A. Margolis, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology).
June 12 - Jonathan Roberts, MD, second-year Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplant fellow, was one of two people selected nationwide to receive the National Hemophilia Foundation-Baxter Clinical Fellowship. The award, effective July 1, will provide Dr. Roberts with support for the research on von Willebrand Disease that he is conducting in Dr. Robert Montgomery's lab in the BloodCenter of Wisconsin’s Blood Research Institute.