PITTSBURGH, Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- At the annual meeting of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI), October 18-20, Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, assumed the role of AACI president from Dr. Edward J. Benz, Jr., president and Chief Executive Officer of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston.
Dr. Caligiuri is director of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and chief executive officer of The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. He is a professor of medicine and a Distinguished University Scholar who holds the John L. Marakas Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation Chair in Cancer Research. Dr. Caligiuri's laboratory, which has nearly 40 members, focuses on research in leukemia, lymphoma and the human immune system.
As AACI president, Dr. Caligiuri will help shape AACI policy on issues important to the nation's cancer research hospitals.
"I look forward to Mike's leadership of AACI," said Barbara Duffy Stewart, AACI Executive Director. "As a researcher, clinician, and administrator, Mike has a deep understanding of the needs of the talented individuals who come together to build a cancer center, with the goal of reducing the burden of cancer in their communities."
Dr. Caligiuri earned his graduate and medical degrees at Stanford University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine, oncology, bone marrow transplantation and immunology at Harvard before joining the Harvard Medical School faculty in 1989. He later went to Roswell Park Medical Center in Buffalo, NY, and was recruited to the OSUCCC in 1997 as associate director for clinical research. He has more than 130 publications in scientific journals.
AACI's new Vice-President/President-Elect is William S. Dalton, PhD, MD. Dr. Dalton is President/Chief Executive Officer and Center Director of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. He will assume the AACI presidency in 2011.
Dr. Dalton was the Founding Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at the University of Arizona and was first hired by Moffitt in 1997 as the Associate Center Director for Clinical Investigations. He was appointed Deputy Director in 1999.
In 1999 Dr. Dalton was the Professor and Founding Chairman of the Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology at the University of South Florida, until 2001. He served as Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson from 2001-2002. Dr. Dalton returned to Moffitt in August 2002 in his current leadership role.
ABOUT AACI
Representing 95 of the nation's premier academic and free-standing cancer research centers, the Association of American Cancer Institutes is dedicated to aiding its members' shared mission to eradicate cancer. For more than 30 years, the Association has provided a unified voice for cancer center directors to educate policy leaders and the public about the importance of cancer centers and the role they play in reducing the burden of cancer in their communities. AACI also leads initiatives to fund cancer centers in the developing innovative research methodologies that have direct clinical applications.
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CONTACTS: Chris Zurawsky, Director, AACI Communications and Public Affairs, 412-802-6775, chris@aaci-cancer.org
WEB: http://www.aaci-cancer.org
Media Contact: See above.
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