Susan Domchek, MD, executive director of the Basser Center for BRCA and the Basser Professor in Oncology, has been elected to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Nominating Committee for the 2022-2023 term. The committee is comprised of advisors to oversee the yearly nomination and election processes for classes of Fellows.
Oluwadamilola Fayanju, MD, MA, surgical director at the Rena Rowan Breast Center, has received the Carole P. & F. Otto Haas Junior Faculty in Clinical Oncology Award, which provides start-up support and salary funds to a junior faculty member pursuing a career in clinical oncology. The $20,000 prize will support her research, including broad interdisciplinary exposure to cancer studies through contributions with basic science laboratories and the clinical departments at the Abramson Cancer Center.
Christopher D. Ghiathi, MD, a fellow of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, has earned the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) Award for Medical Education Research for his research into fellows' experience and perceptions of airway management training. This award recognizes outstanding contributions and commitment to medical education research in undergraduate or graduate medical education in pulmonary, critical care, and pulmonary/critical care medicine.
Shreya Kangovi, MD, an associate professor of Internal Medicine and the founding executive director of the Penn Center for Community Health Workers, has been named to Modern Healthcare's class of Top Innovators. Kangovi is among a list of 25 people who were selected for instituting innovation and leading transformative programs that improve care by achieving measurable results and contributing to the clinical and financial goals of their organization.
Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, director of the Abramson Cancer Center, has been elected to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Board of Directors for the 2022-2025 term. His duties and responsibilities will include setting general policy for the association and overseeing its activities, representatives, and employees, adopting an annual budget prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, authorizing agreements, contracts, and expenditures, and electing new active, sustaining, and honorary members.
Penn Medicine is a recipient of the 2022 CIO 100 Award for its initiative that sought to accelerate research by rapidly expanding the Penn Medicine BioBank (PMBB) through the integration of clinical and research IT systems. By using a data-driven approach to unlock new pathways, Penn Medicine is decoding information from patients' own DNA to deliver personalized care. The PMBB expansion has the potential to make Penn Medicine one of the largest single-institution biorepositories, which is enabled by information systems.
