Peter C. Adamson, a pediatric oncologist and leading scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a professor of pediatrics and pharmacology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed by President Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB). Dr. Adamson is the only pediatric oncologist to currently serve on the NCAB, and will work to ensure that the voices of the pediatric cancer community are heard by decision makers in the federal government.

In this role, Dr. Adamson will advise the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the President on a wide range of issues relating to the national cancer program, including NCI operations. Notably, the NCAB and the President’s Cancer Panel are the only advisory bodies at either the National Institutes of Health or the Department of Health and Human Services whose members are appointed by the President.