Neha Vapiwala, MD
Members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have elected five new officers to its board of directors, including Neha Vapiwala, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, as president-elect.
From 2019 to 2023, Vapiwala served on the board as secretary/treasurer and chaired the ASTRO Finance/Audit Committee, playing a key role in maintaining the society’s financial health during the pandemic, ASTRO said. During her previous board tenure, she was instrumental in advancing initiatives related to radiation oncology workforce analysis, trainee resource expansion, and early career member engagement, the society added.
Other newly elected members include the following:
- Jean Wright, MD, as clinical affairs and quality council vice chair. Wright is the incoming chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC.
- Andrea Ng, MD, as education council vice chair. Ng is a professor and the Brigham and Women's Hospital distinguished chair of clinical radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School, as well as director of hematologic malignancy in radiation oncology at the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center in Boston.
- Christopher Corso, MD, PhD, as government relations council vice chair. Corso is a radiation oncologist who serves as medical director of a Levine Cancer Institute clinic within the Atrium Health system and is affiliated with the Charlotte, NC-based SERO physician group.
- Malika Siker, MD, as health equity, diversity, and inclusion council vice chair. Siker is a professor of radiation oncology and associate dean for student inclusion and diversity at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
The officers will begin their terms on October 1 at ASTRO’s 66th annual meeting in Washington, DC.
