|
W. Thomas London, MD is internationally renowned for his many
decades of work on hepatitis B and liver cancer, which started with his joining
the research team that discovered the hepatitis B virus. Dr. London has been at
the forefront of liver cancer prevention and has written extensively about
hepatitis B from the perspective of an epidemiologist, a clinician and a
virologist. As founder and director of the Liver Cancer Disease Prevention
Division at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA, he developed one of
the first successful community-based strategies to help people reduce their
cancer risk through the early detection of chronic HBV infection. Dr. London
has received the Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award from the
American Cancer Society and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the
Hepatitis B Foundation where he currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board and
as the Senior Medical Advisor.
Amanda Lewis is a Health Scientist in the CDC's Division
of Viral Hepatitis (DVH), where she currently works on the Know More Hepatitis
Campaign and leads the Division's social media efforts. She received her MPH in
2010 from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. She began working
in viral hepatitis while a graduate student and was then hired to join DVH's
Education and Training Team upon graduation.
No comments:
Post a Comment