UPCI Cancer Researcher Honored with ASCO Career Development Award
CHICAGO, June 9 – Shannon Puhalla, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and breast oncologist with the Magee-Womens Cancer Program of UPMC Cancer Centers , has received a 2010 Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).The award provides $200,000 over three years for physicians in their first to third year of practice to establish independent clinical research programs. This year, 14 physicians from across the country received the award. “I am honored to receive this