Mina Cobb Wallace Professor; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Featured Speaker: Raymond N. DuBois, M.D.
Mina Cobb Wallace Professor; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology; Vanderbilt University
Medical Center
Raymond N. DuBois is the Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology; Professor of Medicine, Cancer Biology and Cell/Developmental Biology; and Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
Dr. DuBois, a native Texan, obtained his Ph.D. (1981) and M.D. (1985) degrees from the University of Texas Health Science System before going on to train in internal medicine and gastroenterology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He also completed postdoctoral training, with Nobel Laureate Daniel Nathans, as a Howard Hughes Research Associate at Johns Hopkins. In 1991, he accepted a position at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology. From 1998 to 2003, he served as Director of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. Since 1996, he has directed the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
Dr. DuBois currently serves on the Board of Scientific Advisors to the Director of the National Cancer Institute. He also is a member of the board of directors for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Chairman of the Board for the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology. He was selected as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance spearheaded by Katie Couric of NBC's "Today" show. He is a well-known cancer researcher with numerous scholarly publications, editorial duties, and research grants. He also served as President of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation and the Gastroenterology Research Group of the American Gastroenterological Association.
He received the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation for Medical Research in April 2000, and in that same year, he was inducted into the Royal College of Physicians UK (by distinction) in recognition for his research achievements. He also received the 2002 AACR Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award "in recognition of innovative work leading to significantly improved clinical care in the field of cancer." In 2004, he received the prestigious Dorothy P. Landon Cancer Prize and The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Distinguished Achievement Award, which is the highest recognition offered by AGA for active researchers.
Learning Objectives:
Targets for Prevention and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer—Raymond N.
DuBois, M.D.