UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine E-Edition 2017 | Page 12

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Edward E. Partridge, M.D., a
gynecological oncologist, is
highly recognized for his work
to reduce racial and ethnic
health disparities, his leadership
in reaching underserved
populations, and his research in
cervical and ovarian cancer.
Partridge’s efforts helped gain Alabama participation
in the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Program, which allows women diagnosed with
an abnormal mammogram to receive treatment
regardless of financial means. He has led the Alabama
Black Belt Cancer Linkage Initiative, which assures that
men and women diagnosed with cancer in Alabama’s
Black Belt would get state-of-the-art care, and he is
a co-founder of the Alabama Partnership for Cancer
Control in the Underserved.
As a principal investigator for the Deep South Network
for Cancer Control, a community-based participatory
research network, Partridge has been instrumental in
creating a community of cancer caregivers in Alabama
to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. He is
involved with a federally supported partnership among
the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, Morehouse
School of Medicine and Tuskegee University that pairs
research at UAB with investigators at historically black
colleges and universities to enhance cancer disparity
research. Partridge is also the co-director of the UAB
Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center.
Partridge has been principal investigator or
co-principal investigator on multiple NCI-funded
landmark clinical trials including the PLCO and ALTS
trials. He was principal investigator of the UAB
Specialized Programs of Research Excellence in
Ovarian Cancer.
His long-time volunteer work with American Cancer
Society, since 1979, has led to many positions including
a major role in the establishment of the Joe Lee Griffin
Hope Lodge, which provides housing in Birmingham
for out-of-town patients receiving cancer treatment.
Most prominently, he was the president of the ACS
National Board of Directors. He has also served as
president of the Alabama Division, chair of the
Mid-South Division, and as a member of the
Society’s Board of Directors.
He has served as chairman of the Cervical Cancer
Screening Guidelines Committee of the National
Comprehensive Cancer Network and is a past chairman
of the Commission on Cancer for the American College
of Surgeons.
Partridge, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, has spent
his entire career at UAB. He rose from instructor to
hold the endowed Margaret Cameron Spain Chair in
Obstetrics and Gynecology and served for many years
as director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology.
As the director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer
Center, he also holds the Evalina B. Spencer Endowed
Chair in Oncology.
BY THE NUMBERS:
• Authored more than 239 publications and 7 book chapters
• Presented more than 166 abstracts
• Principal author or co-investigator on 72 grants or clinical trials
• Received $192,673,430 in award funding
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