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Association presents award for research

Issue: January 10, 2015

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Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD, FACS, medical director of Christiana Care’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute, received the 2014 Clinical Research Award from the Association of Community Cancer Centers.

The award recognizes Petrelli’s leadership initiatives that promote and advocate for oncology clinical research.

Petrelli, HemOnc Today’s associate editor for surgical oncology, is a nationally recognized expert in colorectal cancer.

Nicholas J. Petrelli

Petrelli oversaw development of the clinical oncology care program at the Graham Cancer Center. He led the development of a tissue procurement center with more than 5,000 specimens, catalogued through the NCI’s Cancer Bioinformatics Grid. He also developed Delaware’s first statewide High Risk Family Cancer Registry, which consists of 5,640 families with more than 200,000 individuals.

Prior to joining Christiana Care, Petrelli served as chair of the department of surgical oncology and director of the surgical oncology fellowship training program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.