American Cancer Society Announces 2003 Luther L. Terry Award WinnersAmerican Cancer Society International Tobacco Control Leaders Honored in Helsinki Ceremony  The formal award ceremony will be chaired by John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society. Awards will be presented by Mary A. Simmonds, M.D., national volunteer president of the American Cancer Society, and David Zacks, chairman of the American Cancer Society National Board of Directors. Special ceremony guests include Jong-Wook Lee, M.D., M.P.H., director-general of the World Health Organization, and Sinikka Monkare, M.D., Finland's minister of social affairs and health.
Simon Chapman, Ph.D., is a sociologist and a professor of public health at the University of Sydney. He has been one of the world's foremost tobacco control advocates for more than 25 years and is the author of 10 books – many of which have become classics of the tobacco control movement. Mary Assunta Kolandai is well-known throughout the international tobacco control movement. For more than 25 years, she has been a vocal opponent of the tobacco industry's rising influence in developing nations, and her tireless efforts on behalf of these countries was instrumental in putting their perspectives on the international tobacco control agenda. GLOBALink (International Union Against Cancer, Switzerland) is the virtual community that unites policymakers, researchers, educators, doctors, advocates, lawyers – and even dissenters – in the international tobacco control movement. Developed in the early 1990s by the Advocacy Institute with a few dozen members, it was transferred to the International Union Against Cancer in 1993 and has now grown to include more than 3,600 members. The Brazilian Ministry of Health, headed by Minister Humberto Costa, is a paradigm of the tobacco control movement to which other nations may aspire. The ministry develops and coordinates the country's cancer and tobacco control efforts at all levels and in all arenas – advocacy, education, research and service. The scale and intensity of its national campaign against tobacco, as well as its visible leadership role in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, makes Brazil a bastion of the international tobacco control movement and a role model to Latin American and developing nations around the world. Kenneth E. Warner, M.D., is the University of Michigan's Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health, the director of the Tobacco Research Network and the associate director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Since joining the university's faculty in 1972, his creative, rigorous scholarship has reinforced his reputation as an international authority on tobacco control's economic implications. Prakash Gupta, Sc.D., is a senior research scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, an honorary consultant to the Tata Memorial Center and president of the Action Council Against Tobacco, India. He has researched tobacco control in India and abroad since 1966, and he has published more than 100 papers on the topic – including several seminal cross-sectional surveys and long-term follow-up studies that exponentially increased understanding of his country's tobacco epidemic. Michael Pertschuk, Esq., currently serves as co-director of the Advocacy Institute, but his career-long commitment to tobacco control began more than 40 years ago. His illustrious career has been characterized by a deep commitment to the tobacco control movement, and his decisive leadership has driven some of the movement's most significant milestones and accomplishments. Sir Richard Doll, M.D., Sc.D., is a medical pioneer whose lifetime achievement in the field of epidemiology has transformed the world's comprehension of cancer's causes and prevention. In a distinguished career spanning more than six decades, he has published over 490 articles, and he is the driving force behind some of the most significant medical research of the 20th century. Gro Harlem Brundtland, M.D., is the immediate past director-general of the World Health Organization and a celebrated public health advocate whose acclaimed career has spanned nearly 40 years. Throughout her career, Dr. Brundtland has lent her energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to both her native Norway and the world as she has worked to improve the state of public health globally, most recently by assembling the WHO's first public health convention, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Award nominations were reviewed by an international selection committee, including Mira Aghi, Ph.D., India; Kjell Bjartveit, M.D., M.P.H., Norway; Nigel Gray, M.D., Australia; Margaretha Haglund, Sweden; Mike Heron, United States; Natasha Adrianza de Herrera, Ph.D., Venezuela; Judith Mackay, M.D., Hong Kong; Garfield Mahood, Canada; Yussuf Saloojee, Ph.D., South Africa; Harley Stanton, Ph.D., Philippines; David Sweanor, LL.B., Canada; M. Tshabalala-Msimang, M.D., South Africa; Prakit Vateesatokit, M.D., Thailand; and Witold Zatonski, M.D., Poland. The effort was chaired by Thomas Glynn, Ph.D., United States. The American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by saving lives, diminishing suffering and preventing cancer, through research, education, advocacy and service. Founded in 1913 and with national headquarters in Atlanta, the Society has 17 regional Divisions and local offices in 3,400 communities, involving millions of volunteers across the United States. For more information anytime, call toll free 1-800-ACS-2345.
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