The Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) announced that Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS, FSSO, is its president-elect. Wong, the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is the chair of the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) and Geisel. She is a nationally recognized authority in the management of soft tissue sarcoma, melanoma, Merkel Cell carcinoma, and gastrointestinal cancers.
Sandra Wong, MD, MS (photo by Mark Washburn)
“The SSO is dedicated to advancing the best possible surgical care for patients with cancer through research, education, and multiple quality initiatives,” Wong said. “As such, the SSO is really my go-to professional society and I’m so honored to serve in this leadership role. I look forward to continuing multidisciplinary collaborations in order to improve clinical cancer care and outcomes for all.”
Ta-Yuan (T.Y.) Chang, PhD (left) and Catherine Chung-Yao Chang, PhD alongside photos of previous Chang Lab researchers and their families. Photo by Kurt Wehde
Ta-Yuan (T.Y.) Chang, PhD, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), considered to be one of the country’s premier scientific societies.
Election to the National Academy of Sciences is among the highest honors a scientist can achieve and recognizes distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. With its 120 new members (including 59 women and 30 international members) announced on April 25 at its annual meeting, the NAS now has 2,461 active members.
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The FINANCIAL People in our social networks influence the food we eat both healthy and unhealthy according to a large study of hospital employees. The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. When co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy or unhealthy as the food selections on their fellow employees’ trays, Harvard University notes.
“We found that individuals tend to mirror the food choices of others in their social circles, which may explain one way obesity spreads through social networks,” said Douglas Levy, an investigator at the Mongan Institute Health Policy Research Center at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and first author of new research published in Nature Human Behaviour. Levy and his co-investigators discovered that individuals’ eating patterns can be shaped even by casua
Salad or Cheeseburger? New Research Finds that Our Co-workers Shape our Food Choices People in our social networks influence the food we eat – both healthy and unhealthy – according to a large study of hospital employees
April 23, 2021
Mark Pachucki
The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. A new study by researchers, including sociologist Mark Pachucki at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has found that when co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy or unhealthy as the food selections on their fellow employees’ trays.
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