Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

by Dagny Stuart David Johnson, M.D., deputy director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, is starring in a new role for the cancer community. Johnson’s photo is featured in ads for a new national advocacy campaign by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The ad, which was unveiled during the annual ASCO convention in Chicago this [...]

Nashville, Tenn. – President George W. Bush has appointed Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D., director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Pietenpol, the B.F. Byrd Jr. Professor of Oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram, will serve a six-year term through March 9, 2014. She is one of eight members named by the president and will [...]

by Dagny Stuart Each year Nashville Medical News, a local health care publication, honors 10 health care professionals as “Women to Watch” in the medical field. For the first time, VMC women captured three of the coveted spots. Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Lynn Matrisian, Ph.D., chair of the Department of [...]

The annual Oncology Review Symposium is scheduled for Saturday, June 21, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. The symposium offers those involved in cancer care a comprehensive review of research presented at the recent meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. It is designed for professionals who [...]

Cancer program planning will be the focus of a two-day conference, “Elevating Your Oncology Program to the Next Level,” that brings oncology program executives, administrators and managers from around the nation to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville June 19-20. The conference is sponsored by the American College of Oncology Administrators, a specialty group of [...]

USA Today covers a study on patients with advanced cancer. They often don’t know how long they have to live or how chemotherapy will affect their lives and, in many cases, doctors don’t give patients this information. David Johnson, M.D., a cancer survivor and VICC’s deputy director, is quoted, saying, “Doctors and patients alike are [...]

June 9, 2008 CanConnect (canconnect.org), a vibrant new website built by and for the cancer community of Middle Tennessee, launched yesterday. This is not just another website with aging content. A first of its kind, it’s alive — filled with stories, videos and photos – and there for everyone touched by cancer to browse through [...]

by Dagny Stuart Mace Rothenberg, M.D., professor of Medicine, has been honored as one of the nation’s top cancer caregivers by the American Cancer Society. He is one of eight care providers from a variety of backgrounds and regions chosen to receive the 2008 American Cancer Society Lane W. Adams Quality of Life Award, which [...]

This just in from WebMD News Watch…. View From ASCO: Cancer Advances Made in Baby Steps, WebMD Guest Blogger Charlene Laino “As Len Lichtenfeld, MD, deputy chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, likes to remind me almost every time we speak, the field of cancer advances not overnight, but in a series of [...]