Monica Bertagnolli: The honor of giving two commencement addresses

Monica Bertagnolli shared on LinkedIn:

“I had the honor of giving two commencement addresses last week, at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and at my alma mater University of Utah School of Medicine. I have great confidence in the graduates as they embrace the challenging, rewarding paths of public health and medicine. They give me great hope for the future. Congratulations again!”

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 Forum.