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Monica Bertagnolli: We were lucky to have President Jimmy Carter visit NIH in 1979

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Jan 10, 2025, 08:54

Monica Bertagnolli: We were lucky to have President Jimmy Carter visit NIH in 1979

Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institutes of Health, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“On this National Day of Mourning, we remember President Jimmy Carter, a true humanitarian who never stopped working to improve the lives of others.

His legacy includes championing efforts to improve global public health, mental health, and childhood immunization to protect against debilitating and sometimes fatal diseases.

We were lucky to have the former President visit NIH in 1979, when he presented the National Medal of Science to NIH’s Dr. Earl Stadtman.”

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Monica Bertagnolli is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. She is the President of Alliance for Clinical Trials In Oncology Foundation.

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.

In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, having previously served on the National Academies National Cancer Policy Forum.