Berkeley Professor Receives Psycho-Oncology Award
Dr. Joan Bloom, professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, has been honored with the Bernard Fox Memorial Award by the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS). Dr. Bloom was selected in recognition of her contributions to the field of psycho-oncology research. Her most recent contributions have been to the field of survivorship research, in which her work has focused on survivors of Hodgkin's disease and on younger women with breast cancer.
She will receive the award at the IPOS 9th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology in London on September 18. A paper based on her presentation at the award plenary will be published in the journal Psycho-Oncology.
The Bernard Fox Memorial Award is given in recognition of a lifetime achievement in psycho-oncology research. Dr. Bernard Fox was an epidemiologist and biostatistician who was one of the founders of the field of psycho-oncology. He had a lifelong commitment to advancing the scientific quality of research in the field.
