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Chair of the MediMedia Oncology Advisory Board, served as the Director of Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut from 1993 to July 2003. Dr. DeVita is a Yale University School of Medicine Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He was recently appointed the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at the Yale Cancer Center. Following his tenure as the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine, the chair will be renamed the Vincent T. DeVita Professor of Medicine and will support a physician with a strong clinical research background in the treatment of cancer at Yale Cancer Center. Dr. DeVita spent the early part of his career at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In 1980, the President of the United States appointed him as Director of the NCI and the National Cancer Program, a position he held until 1988. Dr. DeVita currently serves on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and is the author or coauthor of more than 450 scientific articles. He is one of the three editors of Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Cancer Journal and of Nature Clinical Practice Oncology. | 