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Lung cancer foundation honors City of Hope department chair
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Ravi Salgia, MD, chair of the department of medical oncology and therapeutics research at City of Hope, received the Asclepius Award from the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation.
“The Asclepius Award honors Dr. Salgia’s excellence in medicine, and his unrelenting focus on helping patients with lung cancer,” Bonnie J. Addario, the foundation’s founder and stage IIIB lung cancer survivor, said in a press release. “He is a strong ally in our quest to find new precision medicine therapies for lung cancer patients worldwide.”
Salgia, who joined City of Hope in January, also serves as associate director for clinical sciences in the institution’s comprehensive cancer center.
“I am honored and humbled to receive recognition from an organization that is so closely aligned to my passion — finding more effective therapies for lung cancer,” Salgia said in the release. “Together, we can make a difference in the fight against this devastating disease.”
Salgia previously spent 12 years at University of Chicago Medical Center and Pritzker School of Medicine. While there, he served as director of the thoracic oncology program, vice chair of medicine and associate director of translational sciences for its comprehensive cancer center.