Wendy Stock, MD
Geoffrey Uy, MD
Wendy Stock, MD, of the University of Chicago Medicine, and Geoffrey Uy, MD, of Siteman Cancer Center, were named co-chairs of the Leukemia Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.
“I am truly honored to have been selected to lead the Alliance Leukemia Committee with Dr. [Uy],” Dr. Stock said. “The Leukemia Committee of the Alliance (formerly CALGB) has a proud tradition of designing and leading groundbreaking, practice-changing studies for adults with acute and chronic leukemias worldwide.”
Dr. Stock is an oncologist and co-leader of the Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Anjuli Seth Nayak Professor in Leukemia. She also serves as a Councillor on the American Society of Hematology Executive Committee.
Dr. Uy is a bone marrow transplant specialist at Siteman whose research centers on the development of new therapies for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes.
“With this appointment, I can further address and more broadly impact the outcomes of patients with leukemia,” Dr. Uy said. “I look forward to contributing my vision to the alliance and its translational research.”
Sources: University of Chicago Medicine, February 2, 2022; Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, January 21, 2022.</p