WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Cancer Support Community (CSC) enthusiastically helps President Biden’s choice of Monica Bertagnolli, MD to the place of director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Bertagnolli, who’s the first lady to serve on this position, was appointed this morning.
Bertagnolli is a professor of surgical procedure at Harvard Medical School and serves as chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She brings distinctive medical expertise to the NCI, along with well being coverage and medical trial experience.
“When Dr. Bertagnolli served as president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, she chose ‘Caring for every patient, learning from every patient’ as her presidential theme,” mentioned Debbie Weir, CEO of the Cancer Support Community. “We firmly believe that patient experience is integral to cancer research and care. We applaud Dr. Bertagnolli’s recognition of the unique and essential role patients play in advancing research and science that helps all people live longer, healthier lives.”
CSC believes each the Cancer Moonshot initiative and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) will profit from the breadth and depth of Dr. Bertagnolli’s expertise and appears ahead to the accomplishments that will probably be achieved underneath her management.
CSC anticipates fruitful collaboration with Dr. Bertagnolli and the NCI transferring ahead, ushering in an thrilling interval of most cancers analysis.
About the Cancer Support Community
As the largest professionally led nonprofit community of most cancers assist worldwide, the Cancer Support Community (CSC), together with its Gilda’s Club community companions, is devoted to making sure that each one individuals impacted by most cancers are empowered by information, strengthened by motion, and sustained by neighborhood. CSC achieves its mission by way of three areas: direct service supply, analysis, and advocacy. The group’s Institute for Excellence in Psychosocial Care contains a global community that gives the highest high quality social and emotional assist for individuals impacted by most cancers, in addition to a neighborhood of assist out there on-line and over the telephone. The Research and Training Institute conducts cutting-edge psychosocial, behavioral, and survivorship analysis. CSC furthers its concentrate on affected person advocacy by way of its Cancer Policy Institute, informing public coverage in Washington, D.C. and throughout the nation.
