Web Exclusive: People in the News – as reported June 1, 2010

Luqman Dad, M.D., co-chief resident of radiation oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., had an opinion letter published in the May 13, 2010, issue of The Buffalo (N.Y.) News, to “applaud Obama and our local members of Congress for their efforts in achieving overarching healthcare reform.”

Adam Dicker, M.D., Ph.D., was appointed chairman of the department of radiation oncology at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Dicker joined the Jefferson Medical College staff in 1996 and has served as a co-leader of the Radiation Research and Translational Biology Program at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and director of the Christine Baxter Research Laboratory for Experimental Cancer Therapies, also at Jefferson.

In a May 18, 2010 article from WCBS-TV in New York on a largest-of-its-kind study that found there is no link between cell phones and brain cancer, Ronald Ennis, M.D., director of radiation oncology at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, was quoted as saying, “As far as we know [radiation from cell phones] doesn't have the capability of damaging cells.”

Tracy LaDue, D.V.M., a veterinarian at Southeast Veterinary Oncology in Orange Park, Fla., was selected as one of Florida Veterinary Medical Association’s (FVMA) 2010 Gold Star Award recipients for dedication to her local FVMA and the advancement of veterinary medicine and the profession.

In a May 4, 2010, CNN.com article on chef Grant Achatz’s battle with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, Everett Vokes, M.D., chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Medicine, was quoted. Achatz, whose career is based on his sense of taste, refused to have his tongue removed as a cancer treatment and eventually found Dr. Vokes who treated him with chemotherapy and radiation, preserving his tongue and taste buds.