Jeffrey S. Ross, MD - Albany Medical College, Albany, New York
Jeffrey S. Ross, MD, is a graduate of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio and The State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in Buffalo, N.Y. He served as an intern resident and fellow in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. and was certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 1974. Following his training, Dr. Ross served as Chief of Pathology at the Moncrief United States Army Hospital in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. From 1977 until 1989, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Medical School reaching the rank of Professor and Assistant Dean while continuing as research Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1989, he became the Cyrus Strong Merrill Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Albany Medical College and Pathologist-in-Chief at the Albany Medical Center Hospital in Albany, N.Y. The Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department at Albany Medical Center is a large academic pathology and clinical laboratory practice and provides services to a network of community hospitals, multi-specialty physician groups, governmental agencies, extended care facilities and for-profit regional and national laboratory companies throughout upstate New York and western New England. This program was privatized in 2002 as Affiliated Pathology Services, Inc. with Dr. Ross serving as President and Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Ross has received numerous academic awards, three patents in molecular diagnostics and is the author of more than 470 peer-reviewed scientific articles, research abstracts, three textbooks and numerous book chapters in the fields of pathology, molecular diagnostics, oncology and translational cancer research. At Albany Medical College, Dr. Ross directs a federally funded research laboratory in molecular pathology. Since 2000, Dr. Ross has been a member of the NIH Clinical Oncology Study Section. He serves on the editorial boards and reviewer lists of numerous scientific journals and is Associate Editor for Basic Science of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology. He has served in multiple leadership positions for the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the College of American Pathologists, the International Academy of Pathology and the Association of Pathology Chairs. Dr. Ross is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Welch-Allyn Corporation and Tripath Oncology, Inc. In December 1999, on semi-sabbatical leave, Dr. Ross was named Scientific Fellow and Head of Molecular Pathology at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Currently, Dr. Ross continues to serve as Senior Scientific Fellow for Oncology Molecular Medicine at Millennium and Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Albany Medical College and the Albany Medical Center Hospital.
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, MD, FACP - The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, MD, FACP is a native of Hungary who obtained his MD in Bogota, Columbia from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1970. Postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology was completed at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, respectively. Board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology, Dr. Hortobagyi’s research interests include developmental therapeutics, and all aspects of the biology and management of breast cancer. Dr. Hortobagyi has contributed over 400
full-length publications in peer-reviewed journals, over 290 invited papers and more than 100 book chapters. Since completing his subspecialty training, he has remained at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He has occupied multiple administrative positions at that institution, including Alternate Head, Medical Breast Service (7/79 - 5/84); Associate Vice President for Patient Care (7/80 - 2/81); Director of the Medical Oncology Fellowship Training Program (7/80 - 12/85); Chief, Medical Breast Service (5/84 - 11/92); Chairman, Department of Breast Medical Oncology (11/92 - present), and Director, Breast Cancer Research Group. Currently he is Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Breast Medical Oncology and Nellie B. Connally Chair in Breast Cancer at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Hortobagyi has received numerous academic awards, including the Nylene Eckles Professorship of Breast Cancer Research at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; the Cino del Duca Award, Paris, France, 1995; the 1997 Sir Peter Freyer Medal and Memorial Lecture, in Galway, Ireland; the 1997 Brinker International Award of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation; the 1999 Vermeille Medal of the City of Paris, France; and in 2001, the rank of Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Paris, France). In 2000, he was selected as the Most Frequently Published Breast Cancer Investigator of the 20th Century. In 2003, he received the Horizon Scientific Achievement Award in Cancer Research, Glenn Robbins Award, Award of Excellence - 21st Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference and the 2004 Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award. He was elected corresponding Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Argentina, Mexico and Hungary; Honorary Member of the Clinical Oncology Societies of Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Peru, and Spain; and Honorary Member of the Senology Societies of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, and Peru.
His professional society activities include membership in the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where he currently serves as member of the Board of Directors; American Association for Cancer Research; Fellow of the American College of Physicians; President of the International Society of Breast Diseases (Senology), 1996-1998; and Member of the Board of Governors of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research, 1993-1998.
Editorial Activities: Co-Editor for Breast Disease, 1989-1996; Member of the Editorial Board of Revisiones en Cancer (Spain); Tumor Oncologia (Argentina); Revista del Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia (Mexico); Breast Surgery Index and Reviews: Journal of Clinical Oncology; The Breast Journal; References en Gynecologie Obstetrique; Senior Editor and Section Editor for Breast Cancer of The Oncologist; Annals of Surgical Oncology; Women and Cancer; Oncologia Clinica (Argentina); The Breast; Diagnostico (Argentina); and Oncology, Seminars in Breast Disease, Cancer Treatment Reviews, Breast Cancer (Japan), Clinical Cancer Research, Clinical Breast Cancer, and International Journal of Oncology.
