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In 2011, the Association of Community Cancer Centers awarded us an Innovator Award for our successful tobacco education program.
The Anderson Cancer Institute holds a three-year Accreditation with Commendation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. We received accreditation in 2006 and again in 2009.
We received the Commission on Cancer's Outstanding Achievement Award in both 2006 and 2009. The Anderson Cancer Institute was one of only 18 programs surveyed nationwide to receive the Outstanding Achievement Award in both 2006 and 2009. And, we were the only cancer program in Georgia to receive the award in 2009.
Breast surgeon Ray Rudolph, M.D., received an Outstanding Performance Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. He was one of only 39 physicians nationwide to receive the award.
Our breast care program was one of the first 100 programs in the U.S. to be accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, a program of the American College of Surgeons.
Our Breast Imaging Center was designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia named us a Blue Distinction Center for the treatment of complex and rare cancers in both 2008 and 2009.
For 12 years in a row, Memorial University Medical Center has been named one of the nation's Most Wired Hospitals.
Researcher Dominique Broccoli, Ph.D., received a $50,000 grant for sarcoma research.
Memorial surgeon Christopher Senkowski, M.D., was appointed to the Society of Surgical Oncology Coding and Reimbursement Committee.
Researchers at Memorial received a $1.6 million federal appropriation to study the link between obesity and cancer deaths.
Cancer research conducted at Memorial was published in the prestigious Cancer Research, the flagship journal of the American Association of Cancer Research.
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