{"id":41273,"date":"2016-12-15T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T19:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=41273"},"modified":"2016-12-16T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:19:05","slug":"tracy-battaglia-american-cancer-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/12\/15\/tracy-battaglia-american-cancer-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Battaglia Named American Cancer Society Board Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/12\/Battaglia_Tracy-5x7-454x636.jpg\" alt=\"battaglia_tracy-5x7\" class=\"  wp-image-41277 alignleft\" width=\"140\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2016\/12\/Battaglia_Tracy-5x7-454x636.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2016\/12\/Battaglia_Tracy-5x7-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2016\/12\/Battaglia_Tracy-5x7.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>Associate Professor of Medicine Tracy Battaglia, MD, has been appointed to a one-year term as Board Chair of the American Cancer Society (ACS) New England Division effective Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her academic responsibilities at BUSM, Battaglia, is an associate professor Epidemiology at BUSPH, a practicing internist at BMC, and serves as Director of BUMC\u2019s Women\u2019s Health Team.<\/p>\n<p>Currently an American Cancer Society-funded researcher, Battaglia is conducting community-engaged research to improve the health of women at risk for and surviving breast cancer. She has been an active volunteer for the ACS for more than two decades and a volunteer member of the ACS New England Division Board of Directors since 2007. As a member of the Board of Directors, she has held numerous positions, including Chair of the Outcomes Workgroup, chair of the \u201c80% by 2018 Colorectal Cancer Workgroup\u201d and Medical Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Medicine Tracy Battaglia, MD, has been appointed to a one-year term as Board Chair of the ACS New England Division effective Jan. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[146,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41273"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273\/revisions\/41325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}