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Monica Bertagnolli: I’m thrilled to welcome Kimryn Rathmell on her 1st day as Director of NCI at NIH
Dec 22, 2023, 09:57

Monica Bertagnolli: I’m thrilled to welcome Kimryn Rathmell on her 1st day as Director of NCI at NIH

Monica Bertagnolli shared on X/Twitter:

I’m thrilled to welcome Kimryn Rathmell on her 1st day as Director of NCI at NIH. She’s the right leader for NCI, a fantastic combination of researcher and clinician who understands the process of translating research to effective cancer treatments.”

Source: Monica Bertagnolli/X

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.