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Victor G. Vogel MD
Dr. Victor Vogel is a medical oncologist who has been taking care of women with breast cancer and doing clinical research in breast oncology for 30 years. He is currently Director of Breast Medical...view moreDr. Victor Vogel is a medical oncologist who has been taking care of women with breast cancer and doing clinical research in breast oncology for 30 years. He is currently Director of Breast Medical Oncology/Research at the Geisinger Health System in central Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the Temple University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was the Deputy Director of the Community Clinical Oncology Program research base at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in the mid-1980s and 1990s. He was a member of the Steering Committee for the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Program (NSABP) Breast Cancer Prevention Trial and was protocol chairman for the NSABP STAR trial that enrolled more than 19,000 women in the US and Canada. He also served on the NSABP Board of Directors for 10 years. For 10 years he was also a member of the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee of the Womens Health Initiative of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Bernadine Healy. He was a member of the Central Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and served a mini-sabbatical in the Division of Cancer Prevention on an Interagency Personnel Agreement in 2003-2004. He was a member of the Grants Council at the American Cancer Society (ACS), served on grant review study sections at both ACS and NCI, and was National Vice President for Research at the ACS from 2009-2010. At the University of Pittsburgh Medical School he was chairman of the oncology Institutional Review Board and a member of the universitys IRB Executive Committee. He has served as principal investigator on a number of investigator-initiated and cooperative group protocols at all of the institutions where he has held appointments during the three decades of his clinical and academic career. He is currently the Director of Breast Medical Oncology/Research for the Geisinger Health System in central Pennsylvania, one of the countrys largest integrated health systems. Dr. Vogel has personally sustained life-threatening and disabling injuries and illnesses. He endured the death of his mother when he was a young oncologist and wrestled with the limits of medical care. A lifelong Christian, he has struggled with the challenges of answering questions about suffering and death for his patients, his family, and his friends. He is an ordained Presbyterian elder and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has edited two medical textbooks, is the author of hundreds of professional articles and editorials, was a medical school professor for 22 years, and has traveled and lectured on four continents. He has appeared on national news broadcasts and has been quoted in the New York Times. He has been married for 37 years to a pediatrician, is the father of two children, and has two grandchildren.view less
Books by Victor G. Vogel MD
Doctor, What If It Were Your Mother?: Hope, Faith and Reason at the End of Life