Guidelines
Jack Rock, MD, and Mark Bernstein, MD, are in the progress of developing Low-Grade Glioma Guidelines on behalf of the Joint Section. These Guidelines are in the process of being reviewed. Members of the Joint Section are also working on a Glioma Outcome project, sponsored by Rhone-Poulenc-Rorer, that is designed to facilitate collection of outcome data on patients with malignant gliomas.
Awards
The Joint Section on Tumors recently awarded the Mahaley Award to Douglas Kondziolka, MD; the Preuss Award to Andrew Metzger, MD; and the Young Investigator Award to Scott Litofsky, MD. The National Brain Tumor Foundation Grant was awarded to Roberta Glick, MD.
Joint Section on Pediatrics
Awards
The Pediatric Section recently named John Park, MD, PhD, of Harvard University, as the winner of the Shulman Award for his paper entitled “Platelet Derived Growth Factor Induces Differentiation of Neuroepithelial Stem Cells into Neurons.” Two Traveling Fellowships were also awarded. Regan Gallher, MD, of the University of New Mexico, traveled to the Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Sooho Choi, MD, of the University of Southern California traveled to The Children’s Hospital in Boston.