UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine Winter 2018 | Page 32

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Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE tours UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jeffrey Immelt, former chairman
of the board and CEO of GE, visited
the UAB Comprehensive Cancer
Center’s cyclotron and imaging
facilities. With continuous funding
from the National Cancer Institute
as a ‘comprehensive’ cancer center
with state-of-the art technology
and groundbreaking research, it
remains a premier institution in
the southeastern region of the
United States. GE Healthcare
provides transformational medical
technologies and imaging services
to meet the demand for increased
access, enhanced quality, and more
affordable healthcare around the
world.
Pictured, L to R: Andrew Osucha, GE; Ken Shaw, GE; Suzanne E. Lapi, Ph.D., director, Cyclotron
Facility and the Radiochemistry Laboratory at UAB; Jeffrey Immelt, GE; Ed Partridge, M.D., former
director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center; Jonathan E. McConathy, M.D., Ph.D., director,
Advanced Imaging Facility and the Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, UAB; and
Christopher S. Brown, Ph.D., vice president for Research, UAB.
Governor Ivey visits the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
Governor Kay Ivey visited the UAB
Comprehensive Cancer Center in August
2017 to get a better understanding of
the capabilities to what is often referred
to as the “People’s Cancer Center.” She
was particularly impressed to see the
Advanced Imaging Facility which houses
the most powerful cyclotron found in any
academic medical setting in the United
States. Gov. Ivey was also excited to see
a portrait of Lurleen Wallace, the first
female governor of Alabama whom Gov.
Ivey had met as a young woman. Gov.
Wallace succumbed to cancer half way
through her term in office. The Wallace
Tumor Institute is the physical home of
the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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