Fink Is New NIAID Information Officer
Leslie Fink
has been named director of NIAID's Office of
Communications and Public Liaison. She worked for a year as a
science writer in that office in 1989 before leaving to establish and
head the communications office for the Human Genome Project in
NHGRI. She has been a science communications professional at
NIH since 1983, also working at NCI and NICHD. Her work in
print and visual media has been recognized by several professional
organizations including the National Association of Government
Communicators, the Society for Technical Communications, and the
Council of International Non-Theatrical Events. She received the
NIH Director's Award in 1997.
Rowland Directs Office of Cancer Survivorship
Dr. Julia Howe Rowland
has been named director, Office of Cancer
Survivorship, NCI. The office is the focal point for support of
special initiatives aimed at investigators who interact with cancer
survivors, and research programs relevant to survivors and their
families. Rowland has more than 20 years of experience as a
researcher, clinician and educator in the field of psycho-oncology.
She has served as an associate professor and director of the
psycho-oncology program at Georgetown University School of
Medicine. Her work at OCS begins full-time in September.
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