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Association of American Cancer Institutes elects new vice president
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Roy Jensen, MD, has been named vice president and president-elect of the Association of American Cancer Institutes.
He will begin his 2-year term on Oct. 23.
Jensen is director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center. He also serves as director of the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and professor of anatomy and cell biology at University of Kansas Medical Center.
The association comprises 95 academic and freestanding cancer research centers in the United States and Canada.
Jensen has served on the association’s board of directors since 2013, and he chaired the group’s annual meeting program committee that year.
“Roy has provided invaluable service to [the association] as a member of its board of directors for the past 3 years, and I look forward to his leadership of the association,” association executive director Barbara Duffy Stewart, MPH, said in a press release. “As an executive and physician scientist, Roy is acutely aware of the needs of the talented professionals who collaborate closely to build a cancer center.”
George L. Weiner, MD, director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa, will serve as the association’s president until October. He will be succeeded by Stanton L. Gerson, MD, director of Case Comprehensive Cancer Center in Cleveland.