Welcome back. If you can please take your seats. Looking forward to the next panel around some of the clinical advances that have been made over the past 50 years by virtue of the National Cancer act. You know, as a former nci director, you know that one of your greatest assets and some of your best friends are those heroes who agree to become Cancer Center directors, because they have to deal with the complexity of everything from supporting basic research on one end of the spectrum to all the way to the other end of the spectrum with regard to training, clinical research, cancer prevention, et cetera. Being a director is a challenge. Were very fortunate today to have with us to chair this next panel dr. Steve rosen who was the for 24 years the director of the robert h lauri and is the head of the Beckman Research center at city of hope. He has a distinguished career as a medical oncologist and particularly addressing himself now to much of the academic progress thats being made, havi
Welcome back. If you can please take your seats. Looking forward to the next panel around some of the clinical advances that have been made over the past 50 years by virtue of the National Cancer act. You know, as a former nci director, you know that one of your greatest assets and some of your best friends are those heroes who agree to become Cancer Center directors, because they have to deal with the complexity of everything from supporting basic research on one end of the spectrum to all the way to the other end of the spectrum with regard to training, clinical research, cancer prevention, et cetera. Being a director is a challenge. Were very fortunate today to have with us to chair this next panel dr. Steve rosen who was the for 24 years the director of the robert h lauri and is the head of the Beckman Research center at city of hope. He has a distinguished career as a medical oncologist and particularly addressing himself now to much of the academic progress thats being made, havi
Welcome back. If you can please take your seats. Looking forward to the next panel around some of the clinical advances that have been made over the past 50 years by virtue of the National Cancer act. You know, as a former nci director, you know that one of your greatest assets and some of your best friends are those heroes who agree to become Cancer Center directors, because they have to deal with the complexity of everything from supporting basic research on one end of the spectrum to all the way to the other end of the spectrum with regard to training, clinical research, cancer prevention, et cetera. Being a director is a challenge. Were very fortunate today to have with us to chair this next panel dr. Steve rosen who was the for 24 years the director of the robert h lauri and is the head of the Beckman Research center at city of hope. He has a distinguished career as a medical oncologist and particularly addressing himself now to much of the academic progress thats being made, havi
And ambassador magazines, he also has talked about john to touro, the labor journalist, for the National Education association for a decade, he has won numerous awards and has digital poetry book, the list goes on and on. Various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america in 2014 and if there is anything i left out, please i dont need that appear. Thank you, joann. We deserve to remember in the annals of poetry, i never had a poet get the words katana and madonna in the same phrase. It is priceless, really priceless. A number of people, former colleagues from the cuomo administration, new friend, fellow writers i have met here, representatives of 50 colleges and universities, sharing the panel with fred, i was working on an article 20 years ago for ambassador magazine about stereotyping against italianamericans and who did i call but the expert where fred was, we chatted a long time, we had never met in person until today. It is pretty awesome for me to be here with fred on the
Site at booktv. Org. Okay. I do double duty here. So i am welcoming Steve Villano who is next, and he is a native of brooklyn, new york, and is the former head of governor mario cuomos new York City Press office with decades of experience in Public Service, public education, Public Health and is the ceo of several national and nonprofit organizations. Im just going to skip to the inhere. He has written quite a bit, theres a long list of things that he has written. He has authored major pieces on ethnic stereotyping in ambassador magazine, he also has talked about actors like Stanley Tucci and john turturro, hes a labor journalist for the National Education association for a decade. He has won numerous awards, and he has a digital poetry book called we haiku. 9 the list goes on and on. He has won various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america in 2014, and if theres anything ive left out, steve, please [inaudible conversations] [laughter] thank you, joanne. Its you deserve to