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A Titan exits stage left: Summary of the Waun Ki Hong Festschrift
Author(s) -
Fadlo R Khuri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.29410
Subject(s) - medicine , mentorship , head and neck , gerontology , obituary , library science , surgery , medical education , history , archaeology , computer science
On August 15, 2014, at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Dr. Fadlo Khuri, along with co‐chairs Drs. James Abbruzzese, Patrick Hwu, Roy Herbst, and Scott Lippman, chaired a Festschrift celebrating the lifetime of accomplishments of Dr. Waun Ki Hong. A series of lectures celebrating Dr. Hong's legacy ensued, highlighting his accomplishments in the areas of induction chemotherapy, organ preservation, head and neck biology, carcinogenesis, and chemoprevention, as well as his leadership in the biological interrogation of biomarker‐driven pathways in lung and head and neck cancer and his transformation of the culture of mentorship and multidisciplinary science at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.