Elected, Appointed INTERURBAN CLUB
Richard I. Fisher, MD, President and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, have been elected to the historic Interurban Clinical Club, founded in 1905 by Sir William Osler. NEW PRESIDENT
John “Drew” Ridge, MD, PhD, FACS, Chief of Head and Neck Surgery and the Louis Della Penna Family Chair in Head and Neck Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named President of the American Radium Society, the oldest academic group devoted to the study and treatment of cancer. AMERICAN CLINICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Joseph Cheung, MD, PhD, the Evans Professor and Chair of Medicine at Temple, has been elected to the American Clinical and Climatological Association, which selects members on the basis of leadership, excellence, and integrity. FIRST FELLOWS
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging has inducted Leon Malmud, MD, the Herbert Stauffer Professor of Radiology, and Alan Maurer, MD, Professor of Radiology and Director of Nuclear Medicine at Temple, into its inaugural class of Fellows — recognizing their contributions to the field. COMMISSION ON CANCER
COLIN LENTON
Nestor Esnaola, MD, MPH, MBA, FACS, a surgical oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been invited to serve on the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer, a group of 102 professionals dedicated to improving cancer care nationwide. ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA BOARD
Saqib Rehman, MD, MBA, Director of Orthopaedic Trauma at Temple, has been
Richard I. Fisher, MD
elected to the Executive Board of the Foundation for Orthopaedic Trauma. This national organization promotes the advancement of orthopaedic traumatology. NIH CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC REVIEW
Raj Kishore, PhD, Director of Temple’s Stem Cell Therapy Program, has been named a charter member of the Center for Scientific Review’s task force on Myocardial Ischemia and Metabolism. Members review grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health and survey the status of research in the field.
NEW CEO FOR ACP
Darilyn Moyer, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, has been named Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest specialty organization in the United States. Moyer has served on ACP’s Board of Regents, chaired its Board of Governors, and is a past Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter Governor. Her interests include medical education, high-value care, patient safety, professionalism and digital media, and HIV/ infectious diseases. FALL 2016 | TEMPLE HEALTH MAGAZINE |
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