Briefs: Earp begins two-year term as president of Association of American Cancer Institutes
Dr. H. Shelton Earp III recently began a two-year term as president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI).
Nov. 11, 2005
Briefs
Earp begins two-year term as president of Association of American Cancer Institutes
Dr. H. Shelton Earp III recently began a two-year term as president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI).
Earp is director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of 39 comprehensive cancer centers nationwide designated by the National Cancer Institute.
The AACI is an association of the nation's 85 leading academic and freestanding cancer centers. The organization works with universities and foundations, as well as private and governmental organization, on the eradication of cancer through state-of-the-art clinical care, innovative cancer research and the training of the next generation of cancer specialists.
Earp arrived in Chapel Hill as a medical student in 1966 and has held leadership positions with UNC Lineberger since 1977. He also is Lineberger professor of cancer research and a professor of pharmacology and medicine. Earp is the principal investigator of UNC's Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer (SPORE), one of 11 nationwide.
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McCoy is elected to medical transport services accreditation board
Dr. Marshall McCoy, associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine's department of emergency medicine, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services.
The commission sets quality standards for patient care and safety in the medical transport environment.
McCoy is a member of the board of directors of the Air Medical Physicians Association and has been medical director of UNC Air Care for the past 10 years.
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UNC Lineberger coordinates effort to send gifts from Triangle to Gulf Coast cancer patients
Cancer patients displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are now receiving support from Triangle community women - in the form of nearly 1,000 gifts collected at two recent fund-raising luncheons.
At the time that event volunteer organizers were planning two events to benefit the UNC Comprehensive Cancer Center, hurricanes were devastating the Gulf Coast region and displacing cancer patients from their treatment centers.
Event co-chairs Missy Julian-Fox and Margie Haber of Chapel Hill decided to ask the 450 women coming to the two October luncheons to bring party favors rather than receive them, stating that their gifts would be sent to cancer patients undergoing therapy who were forced to get their treatment elsewhere because of the storms.
More than 160 pounds of gifts including slippers, hats, handbags, socks, scarves, inspirational books, candles, jewelry and toiletries were delivered to several cancer centers. The two events raised more than $55,000 to fund women's cancer research at UNC Lineberger.
UNC Lineberger contact: Dianne Shaw, (919) 966-5905
News Services contacts: Print, L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589, or Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415; broadcast, Karen Moon, 962-8595
