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Sarah Cannon chief medical officer elected as next ASCO president
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Howard A. “Skip” Burris III, MD, FACP, FASCO, has been elected to serve as president of ASCO for the 2019-2020 term.
Burris — president of clinical operations and chief medical officer for Sarah Cannon Research Institute — has been an active member of ASCO since 1991. He has served on the board of directors; as chair of the cancer research committee, the nominating committee and the research community forum council; and as co-chair of the ethics committee.
“It is a tremendous honor to be elected ASCO President by my peers and I am grateful for their trust and support,” Burris said in a press release. “ASCO is a vital organization not only for physicians, but also for patients and all of those entities working in the fight against cancer. I am hopeful that my unique background will allow me to serve as a bridge between the many stakeholders participating in this important cause of advancing therapies and reducing the burden of cancer in the world.”
Burris will begin his term in June 2019 and will take office as President-Elect during the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting.