Fourteen distinguished ASCO members have been selected by the ASCO Nominating Committee as candidates for open leadership positions within the Society for the 2014 ASCO Election. Biographic information and interviews with each candidate, as well as instructions for casting a proxy ballot, will be made available at www.asco.org/election when proxy voting opens on Tuesday, October 29. The proxy voting will close on Tuesday, November 26. The proxy ballots will be delivered to the ASCO President or his designee for official casting at a special meeting to be held on December 3, 2013, at ASCO Headquarters.
Election results will be announced by mid-December 2013; elected candidates will assume office at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting in June. ■
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2014 ASCO Candidates
President-Elect Candidates
Lynn M. Schuchter, MD, FASCO
University of Pennsylvania
Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, FASCO
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Board of Directors—Community Oncologist Candidates
Linda D. Bosserman, MD, FACP
Wilshire Oncology Medical Group
William N. Harwin, MD
Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute
Board of Directors—International Oncologist Candidates
David Khayat, MD, PhD, FASCO
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France
Purvish M. Parikh, MD, DNB, FICP, PhD, ECMO, CPI, MBA
Indian Cancer Care Society, India
Board of Directors—Radiation Oncologist Candidates
Thomas A. Buchholz, MD, FACR
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Walter J. Curran, Jr, MD, FACR
Emory University Winship Cancer Institute
Board of Directors—Undesignated Specialty Candidates
Charles D. Blanke, MD, FACP, FRCPC, FASCO
Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute
Arti Hurria, MD
City of Hope
Nominating Committee—Undesignated Specialty Candidates (2 Open Seats)
Blase N. Polite, MD, MPP
The University of Chicago Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics & Global Health
Gregory H. Reaman, MD, FASCO
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation & Research
David R. Spriggs, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Emile E. Voest, MD, PhD
University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands.
