ASTRO 2011: Ang, Cummings to receive ASTRO Gold Medal

Drs. Ang and Cummings will be recognized with this honor at the Awards Ceremony held during ASTRO's 53rd Annual Meeting ( ASTRO 2011 ) taking place October 2-6, 2011, in Miami Beach, Fla.

The Gold Medal is the Society's highest honor. It is bestowed on revered members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of radiation oncology, including research, clinical care, teaching and service. Recipients are drawn from any of the scientific disciplines represented by the members of the Society.

Dr. Ang is a former ASTRO Board of Directors chairman and a 25-year member of the Society. Over the span of his career he has established himself as one of the leading head and neck radiation oncologists. He was, for example, a key leader in several large scale national and international studies for patients with various head and neck cancers, which established that accelerated fractionation is better than standard fractionation in yielding tumor control, adding inhibitor of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling pathway to radiation improves survival and that human papilloma virus-associated throat cancers respond much better to therapy than smoking-induced counterparts. These findings have gradually changed the standard treatment for head and neck cancer over the past 15 years. Dr. Ang authored Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer, which is now in its third edition and considered an essential radiation oncology educational resource and treatment guide. He currently holds the Gilbert H. Fletcher Distinguished Memorial Chair of radiation oncology and is a professor of radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where he has been on staff since 1984.

Dr. Cummings is a 31-year member of ASTRO and was integral in the establishment of the Society's international relations efforts. As a long-standing member and chair of the International Relations Committee, Dr. Cummings and his colleagues established ASTRO international education courses and international visiting professor programs to provide guidance to radiation oncologists in medically developing countries. He served as organizer and speaker for eight courses around the world and served as the ASTRO representative to the Sino-American Network for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Asociación Latinoamericana de Terapia Radiante Oncológica (ALATRO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr.

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