Monica M. Bertagnolli: Honored to be present as President Of The US signed the Presidential Memorandum establishing the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research

Monica M. Bertagnolli shared on X/Twitter:

“Honored to be present as President of the US signed the Presidential Memorandum establishing the White House
Initiative on Women’s Health Research. Our job is not done when scientific discoveries are made—our job is done when people are living long and healthy lives.”

To read the memorandum click here.
Source: Monica M. Bertagnolli/Twitter

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli is the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), 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 Forum.