Awards, Appointments, Announcements

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▪ Agustin Garcia, M.D., has been appointed director of breast cancer research at the Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, Garcia served as director of the Clinical Investigation Support Office at the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he also held an appointment as a visiting associate professor of medicine.

▪ Bruce Boman, M.D., Ph.D., has been elected president of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer for the term 2003–2004.

Boman is professor of medicine and of immunology and microbiology and director of the Division of Genetic and Preventive Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He directs the program for Hereditary Cancer and the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center.

The goal of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer is to improve understanding of inherited colorectal cancer and the clinical management of affected families.