Council Officers / Council Members / Committees

WICR Council members are elected to serve on the Council for a three-year term. A Chairperson-Elect and three new Council members are elected annually. Council members are needed who will actively participate in and contribute to WICR activities. It is essential for members to have staggered terms in order to allow for participation from the WICR membership-at-large while preserving some continuity within the WICR leadership body. The terms for current Council members are listed below.

WICR Council Officers 2008-2009

 
  Chairperson
  Carol J. Thiele, Ph.D. (Bio)
  Head, Cellular & Molecular Biology
  NCI-CCR
  Bethesda, MD
  Phone: (301) 496-1543
  Fax: (301) 451-7052
  E-mail: thielec@mail.nih.gov

Chairperson-elect
Elizabeth L. Travis, Ph.D. (Bio)
M. Allen Fair Professor, Cancer Research
UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Phone: (713) 792-3424
Fax: (713) 794-5369
E-mail: etravis@mdanderson.org  

Past Chairperson 
Carrie W. Rinker-Schaeffer, Ph.D.  (Bio)
Associate Professor & Director of Urology Research, Dept. of Surgery
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Phone: (773) 702-3140
Fax: (773) 702-1001
E-mail: crinkers@uchicago.edu 

 

AACR CEO
Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.)
Chief Executive Officer
American Association for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, PA
Phone: (215) 440-9300
Fax: (215) 440-9412

 

WICR Council Members

 

   Lydia Armstrong, Ph.D. (Bio)
   Sr. Director, Global Scientific Affairs
   Novartis
   East Hanover, NJ
   Phone: (862) 778-6528
   E-mail: lydia.armstrong@novartis.com
   Council Term: 2007-2010

 

Angela M. Hartley Brodie, Ph.D. (Bio)
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Phone: (410) 706-3137
Fax: (410) 706-0032
E-mail: abrodie@umaryland.edu
Council Term: 2006-2009

   Suzanne A. Eccles, Ph.D. (Bio)
   Sr. Scientist, Dept. of Tumor Biology
   McElwain Laboratories
   Sutton, England
   Phone: +44 (208) 722-4210
   Fax: +44 (208) 722-4134
   E-mail: sue.eccles@icr.ac.uk 
                        Council Term: 2007-2010

   Leslie I. Gold, Ph.D. (Bio)
   Associate Professor, Depts. of Pathology & Medicine
   New York University School of Medicine
   New York, NY
   Phone: (212) 263-6320
   Fax: (212) 263-7640
   E-mail: leslie.gold@med.nyu.edu
   Council Term: 2007-2010

Jennifer Rubin Grandis, Ph.D. (Bio)
Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
Phone: (412) 647-5280
Fax: (412) 647-2080
E-mail: jgrandis@pitt.edu
Council Term: 2006-2009

Roya Khosravi-Far, Ph.D. (Bio)
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Phone: (617) 667-8526
Fax: (617) 667-3524
E-mail: rkhosrav@bidmc.harvard.edu
                        Council Term: (2008-2011)

Worta McCaskill-Stevens, M.D. (Bio)
Program Director, Community Oncology and Prevention Trial's Research Group
NCI
Bethesda, MD
Phone: (301) 496-8541
Fax: (301) 496-8667
E-mail: wm57h@nih.gov
Council Term: (2008-2011)

Ann D. Thor, M.D. (Bio)
Chair, Department of Pathology
University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Program
Aurora, CO
Phone: (303) 724-3704
E-mail: ann.thor@uchsc.edu
Council Term: (2008-2011)

 

Sandra L. White, Ph.D. (Bio)
Director of Center for Science, Math & Technology
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC
Phone: (919) 530-7060
Fax: (919) 530-6210
E-mail: swhite@nccu.edu
Council Term: 2006-2009