Untitled Document
OHSU Where Healing, Teaching and Discovery Come Together
OHSU Search OHSU OHSU Site Map Contact
Lheaderimg image

Contact us | Site Map             
 


OHSU Healthcare Site  »      

 

home image
awards image
news image
patient_fam image
Health Professional image
educ_train image
employment image
  Radiation Medicine > News > April 14, 2008
» Guest Lectures       » Presentations       » Publications         
 
Clinical_Trials
 
makeadifference
 
 
 
News

April 14, 2008

Dr. Wang receives coveted ASCO Cancer FoundationYoung Investigator Award

Samuel J. Wang, MD, PhD, is the recipient of a 2008 ASCO Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award.  This $50,000 grant will allow Dr. Wang, who completed an American Board of Radiology B. Leonard Holman Pathway Research Pathway Resident track, to continue his academic career development as a physician-scientist within the health services research area of cancer medicine.  His project is titled, "A Comparison of Regression Modeling Techniques for Predicting the Benefit of Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy for Biliary Tract Cancers".

Dr. Wang will receive a plaque recognizing his achievement at the 2008 ASCO meeting on June 1st, 2008.  According to Dr. CR Thomas, Jr.. "Dr. Wang has continued to set a new a standard as a focused academic physician-scientist whose novel prediction modeling of survival and associated outcomes related research, is congruent with the priorities of the NIH Roadmap, the OCTRI, and the OHSU Cancer Institute".