ASCO president on uniting the oncology field  

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Howard “Skip” Burris, MD, chief medical officer of Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute in Nashville, Tenn., joins the podcast to talk about what it’s like to be the 2019-2020 president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Burris joins Blood & Cancer host David H. Henry, MD, of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, to share his priorities as president and how he finds the time for advocacy, research, and clinical practice.

Plus, in Clinical Correlation, Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, of Stanford (Calif.) University, shares the story of a couple who had cancer at the same time.

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David Henry, MD
David Henry, MD, FACP, is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and vice chairman of the department of medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, then completed his internship, residency, and fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. After 2 years as an attending in the U.S. Air Force, he was drawn to practicing as a hem-onc because of the close patient contact and interaction, and his belief that, win or lose with each patient, one can always make a difference in their care and lives. Follow Dr. Henry on Twitter: @davidhenrymd. Dr. Henry reported being on the advisory board for Amgen, AMAG Pharmaceuticals, and Pharmacosmos. He reported institutional funding from the National Institutes of Health and FibroGen.