The Annual Lectureship Grant from the Helen Moss Breast Cancer Foundation to the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine was held at the Cleveland City Club forum on October 30, 2009. The Speakers were Dr. Stephen Sagar, Persident of the SIO and Dr. Gary Deng of  Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

Helen Moss, Board Member of the Society for Integrative Oncology, arranged a 3-day visiting professorship for Dr. Stephen Sagar and Dr. Gary Deng to attend eminent centers in Cleveland.

Dr. Sagar, current President of SIO, and Dr. Gary Deng, next year's President-elect, stated that they were "very much impressed by the enthusiasm that the Cleveland community has for ground-breaking research and excellence in patient care."

During their visit, the Dean of Case Western University, Pamela Davis MD, announced a new endowed Professorship in Integrative Oncology. The Helen Moss Foundation will be raising money to support this innovative new program that will be multidisciplinary and enable new and enhanced services for patient care, education, and research.

Cleveland already leads many new innovations in medicine and cancer research. Dr. Stanton Gerson, Director of the Ireland Cancer Center, enthusiastically stated that the timing is right as a new cancer center building opens in 18 months and new family orientated programs are initiated. Dr. Nathan A. Berger has kindly volunteered for SIO's Advisory Board. He is the Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine and Director of the Center for Science, Health and Society. He is Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Oncology at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine. Dr. Berger became the founding Director of the Case Western Reserve University/Ireland Cancer Center which was awarded NCI Cancer Center status in 1987 and subsequently was designated an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center.  Dr. Berger is Principal Investigator on two major grants funded by the National Cancer Institute; 1) CASE Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer, and 2) Aging-Cancer Research Program Development. In 1995 Dr. Berger was appointed Acting Dean and in 1996 he was selected to become Dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs.

Dr. Sagar and Dr. Deng both presented at the Cleveland City Club on the 30th October 2009 to a networked television and radio audience of over one million people.*

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*Taken from the Society of Integrative Oncology