Peers choose MD Anderson’s Gershenwald, Hwu as new AAAS Fellows

Source: Eurek Alert, January 2019

Two leaders in the field of melanoma treatment – a surgeon and an oncologist – from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow, a tradition that began in 1874, is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

MD Anderson’s faculty now includes 48 AAAS Fellows, including the two newly elected Fellows:

* Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D., professor of Surgical Oncology, for distinguished contributions to the field of clinical and translational medicine, particularly for evidence-based advances in melanoma staging and prognosis and molecular classification of melanoma.