�The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology has selected renowned paediatric oncologist Audrey Evans, M.D., as its 2008 honorary member. Dr. Evans will be recognised during the Awards Ceremony held Tuesday, September 23, at 10:00 a.m. during ASTRO's fiftieth Annual Meeting in Boston.
Dr. Evans has been on the head of the treatment and study of childhood malignant neoplastic disease for decades. She was one of the co-founders of the original Ronald McDonald House, which opened in Philadelphia in 1974 and expanded into Ronald McDonald House Charities in 1984 and the Ronald McDonald Camp in 1987. She likewise developed the Evans Staging System for neuroblastoma and instituted and chaired the initial meetings of the Advances in Neuroblastoma Research Conference, which began in 1975 and continue to this day.
Over the row of her career, Dr. Evans has been awarded the Janeway Award from the American Radium Society, the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Distinguished Career Award, the American Red Cross Spectrum Award, the Alpha Delta Kappa International Woman of the Year Award and the University of Pennsylvania Osler Award, among many other awards. She besides has co-authored approximately 250 papers in peer-reviewed literature.
"Dr. Evans is truly a pioneer in the field of pediatric oncology and in patient care," Louis B. Harrison, M.D., chairperson of ASTRO's Board of Directors and a radiation oncologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, said. "ASTRO is honored to be capable to stretch an honorary membership to her in recognition of her admirable career and the contributions she has made to cancer patients and the field of oncology."
Dr. Evans attended aesculapian school at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh, UK, and came to the United States in 1953 as a Fulbright Fellow at the Boston Children's Hospital. She became the head of the paediatric hematology-oncology unit at the University of Chicago clinics in 1964 and music director of the Children's Cancer Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1968.
From 1969-1989, Dr. Evans served as the chair of the Division of Oncology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and was appointive a prof of pediatric medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1972.
ASTRO Honorary Membership is the highest honour the Society bestows on distinguished cancer researchers and leaders in disciplines other than radiotherapy oncology, radiation physics or radiobiology.
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ASTRO is the largest radiation oncology lodge in the world, with more than 9,000 members world Health Organization specialize in treating patients with radiation therapies. As the preeminent organization in radiation oncology, biology and physics, the Society is dedicated to improving patient care through education, clinical practice, advance of science and advocacy.
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