Monica Bertagnolli: I am happy to share NIH’s National Smell and Taste Center

Monica Bertagnolli shared on LinkedIn:

“I am happy to share that NIH’s National Smell and Taste Center (NSTC), an effort led by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, is launching July 9! The center will advance collaboration and innovation in smell and taste research, clinical care, and education to help those with smell and taste disorders – a need that rose to national attention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tune in to the inaugural seminar with keynote from Dr. Thomas Hummel of University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden. This event will be held 1-5pm ET 7/9. Details.”

Source: Monica Bertagnolli/LinkedIn

Monica Bertagnolli is the Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA. She previously served as the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery in the field of surgical oncology at Harvard Medical School, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a member of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment and Sarcoma Centers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Bertagnolli is the Founding Chair of the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) executive committee and has held multiple positions nationally, including being Past President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chair of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, having previously served on the National Academies National Cancer Policy Foru.