Awards, Appointments, Announcements

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▪ Michael Simon, M.D., was appointed to the African American National Advisory Council by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Simon currently works at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and is a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.

▪ Steven M. Larson, M.D., was elected to the Institute of Medicine, a position that honors achievement in the health sciences. Larson is chief of the nuclear science medicine service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

▪ Christopher P. Evans, M.D., was appointed chair of the urology department at the University of California–Davis School of Medicine. He has been on the faculty of UC Davis since 1997.

▪ Jonathan D. Licht, M.D., was appointed associate director for clinical sciences and chief of hematology and oncology at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago.

▪ Lisa Diller, M.D., was appointed chief medical officer of Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Care and clinical director of pediatric oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston. Diller is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.