2019-08-01 03:15:17
Chosen as ASTRO 2019 Honorary Member
COREY J. LANGER, MD, PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE in the Hematology/Oncology Division at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he serves as director of Thoracic Oncology in the Abramson Cancer Center, has been chosen as the 2019 ASTRO Honorary Member. He is slated to receive the award on Tuesday, September 17, at ASTRO’s 61st Annual Meeting in Chicago.
This award is the highest honor that ASTRO bestows upon cancer physicians and researchers who do not qualify for Active ASTRO membership — namely, those in radiation oncology, radiobiology or medical physics.
Dr. Langer received his medical degree from Boston University in 1981. His postgraduate training included a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and a fellowship in Oncology at AOH/Fox Chase Cancer Center. He served there from 1986 until 2008, leading its Thoracic Oncology Program for the final 14 years of his tenure before moving in June 2008 to the University of Pennsylvania, where he currently heads the Interdisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program.
Mitchell Machtay, MD, FASTRO, noted in his nomination of Dr. Langer that he had not met a medical oncologist who is more “passionate about combined modality, curative-intent therapy for locally advanced lung cancer” than Dr. Langer. Dr. Machtay says, “Simply put: There are only a small number of medical oncologists who have had great influence and contributions promoting combined modality therapy; there are a fewer number of medical oncologists who have participated so heartily in the annual ASTRO meetings. And there are no medical oncologists who have provided as much service to the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group/NRG Oncology Cooperative Group and its prospective, radiation oncology oriented clinical trials as Dr. Langer has.”
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