Markey director B. Mark Evers elected to AACI Board of Directors
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 4, 2024) — University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Director B. Mark Evers, M.D., has been elected to the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) Board of Directors.
The AACI’s board includes leaders from the top cancer centers in North America and supports the organization’s mission of enhancing the impact of academic cancer centers.
Evers, who has served as director of the UK Markey Cancer Center since 2009, is a surgical oncologist and nationally recognized physician-scientist. Under his leadership, the Markey Cancer Center achieved National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation in 2013 and Comprehensive status with its recent renewal in 2023. Markey is the only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Kentucky.
Evers and two other new board members will begin their two-year terms in October, during the 2024 AACI/Cancer Center Administrators Forum Annual Meeting in Chicago.
The AACI is the only membership association dedicated to academic cancer centers and represents more than 100 premier academic and freestanding cancer research centers in the U.S. and Canada. The association advances the objectives of cancer centers by promoting widespread recognition of the cancer center network, educating policymakers and fostering partnerships among cancer centers and like-minded organizations to improve the overall quality of cancer care.
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