The 2022 Luminary Awards in GI Cancers - Call for Nominations

Honoring those individuals who have made transformative strides in the lives of patients in GI cancers

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2022 NOMINATIONS

The Luminary Awards in GI Cancers will take place in-person on Thursday, November 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Please complete the nomination form below to recognize deserving individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving patient outcomes in gastrointestinal cancers.

About

The Luminary Awards in GI Cancers is an event dedicated to honoring five highly accomplished individuals for their lifetime achievements focused on finding cures for GI cancers and improving the lives of those affected by this group of most common and fatal cancers.

Nomination Criteria

1. Nominee shall have achieved landmark successes within the field of GI oncology.
2. Nominee must be living at the time of nomination.
3. Individuals may be nominated in as many categories as appropriate.
4. International nominates – nominations for US and non-US physicians will be accepted in all categories -- no restrictions on the nominated clinician’s home/practicing country.
5. Individuals submitting nominations should be affiliated with the GI Cancer community, in a clinical, research, or advocacy role.
6. Voting will be based upon the information supplied by the nominator

Selection Committee Members

Richard L. Schilsky, MD,

FACP, FASCO, FSCT

Former Chief Medical Officer

(CMO) and Executive Vice

President, ASCO

Michael Sapienza

Chief Executive Officer,

Colorectal Cancer Alliance

Gayle S. Jameson RN,

MSN, ACNP-BC, AOCN

Associate Clinical Trial

Investigator, HonorHealth

Research Institute

Emily Winslow, MD

Regional Chief of

Hepatopancreaticobiliary

Surgery, MedStar

Georgetown University

Hospital

Keith Unger, MD

Director of the

Gastrointestinal Cancer

Service for the Department of

Radiation Medicine,

MedStar Georgetown

University Hospital

John Marshall, MD

Director, The Ruesch Center

for the Cure of GI Cancers,

and Chief, Hematology and

Oncology, MedStar

Georgetown University

Hospital

Past Luminary Award Honorees

2020

• RICHARD M. GOLDBERG, MD

West Virginia University Cancer Institute

• GAYLE S. JAMESON, RN, MSN, ACNP-BC, AOCN

HonorHealth Research Institute

• STACIE C. LINDSEY

Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation

• Tyvin Rich, MD, FACR

Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute

• Diane M. Simeone, MD

NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center

2018

• JOSEPH BIDEN

Vice President, United States (at the time of award)

• JOHN S. MACDONALD, MD, FACP

Criterium, Inc.

• MICHAEL SAPIENZA

Colorectal Cancer Alliance

• RICHARD L. SCHILSKY, MD, FACP, FASCO, FSCT

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

• PAUL H. SUGARBAKER, MD, FACS, FRCS

MedStar Washington Hospital Center

• DANIEL D. VON HOFF, MD, FACP, FRCS

Translational Genomics Research Institute; HonorHealth; Mayo Clinic

2017

• JULIE FLESHMAN, JD, MBA

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

• DANIEL G. HALLER MD, FACP, FRCP

Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania

• HENRY T. LYNCH, MD, MS, FACP, FAACR

Creighton University School of Medicine

• FRANK MCCORMICK, PHD, FRS

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

• ANDREW L. WARSHAW, MD, FACS, FRCSED

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

NOMINATION FORM

Please complete all required fields in the form below before clicking “Submit”. In your Key Achievement essay, please describe in 250 – 500 words how the nominee has had a transformative impact in the lives of patients in GI cancers. If your nominee is selected as a finalist, we may reach out requesting additional information.