ASCO announces new membership roles

Issue: March 10, 2018

Tracey Weisberg

Tony S. K. Mok

Five ASCO members have been elected to the society’s board of directors to fill existing vacancies.

The new members will serve 4-year terms beginning in June 2018.

These members include:

Laurie E. Gaspar, MD, MBA, FASTRO, FACR, professor emeritus in the department of radiation oncology at University of Colorado, who will serve as treasurer of ASCO;
Tracey Weisberg, MD, lead physician at New England Cancer Specialists, who has been elected to a community oncologist seat;
Tony S. K. Mok, BMSc , MD, FRCP(C), FRCP ( Edin .), FHKCP, FHKAM (Medicine), FASCO, chair of clinical oncology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, who will fill an international oncologist seat;
A. William Blackstock, MD, professor and chair of the department of radiation oncology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and director of the clinical research program at Comprehensive Cancer Center, who has been elected to a radiation oncologist seat; and
Lee M. Ellis, MD, FACS, FASCO, William C. Liedtke Jr. chair in cancer research and professor in the departments of surgical oncology and molecular & cellular oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, who has been elected to an undesignated specialty seat.

ASCO also announced the election of two physicians to the society’s nominating committee:

W. Kimryn Rathmell

N. Lynn Henry, MD, PhD, FACP, associate professor of internal medicine and interim division chief of oncology at University of Utah and director of breast medical oncology at Huntsman Cancer Institute, who will serve as the chair of the ASCO nominating committee in 2020-2021; and
W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, Cornelius A. Craig professor of medicine at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Henry and Rathmell will each serve 3-year terms on the nominating committee.