Edwin P. Lehman, MD, FACS

Chair, Committee on Cancer, 1951–1954

Edwin P. Lehman, MD, FACS, served as the Chair of the Committee on Cancer from 1951 to 1954. He was an integral part of the history of the University of Virginia Medical Center. He served as the Chair of Surgery at the University of Virginia Medical Center from 1928 to 1953. He served as President of the American Cancer Society prior to becoming the Chair of the Committee on Cancer.

During his tenure, the number of approved cancer clinics continued to increase with more than 500 accredited facilities by 1952.

Written by David Mullins, MD, FACS

Benjamin Franklin Byrd, Jr., MD, FACS

Benjamin Franklin Byrd, Jr., MD, FACS, served as Chair of the Commission on Cancer from 1969 to 1975 and as a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons from 1973 to 1976.

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Burton J. Lee, MD, FACS

Burton James Lee was born in New Haven, CT, on February 4, 1874. He received a bachelor’s of philosophy from Yale University in 1894 and his medical degree from Columbia University in 1898, and interned at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

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Charles Alfred Dukes, MD, FACS

Charles Alfred Dukes, MD, FACS, was born in Numa, IA, on April 23, 1872, and graduated from the Cooper Medical College (which would later become the Stanford University School of Medicine) in 1895

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Danely P. Slaughter, MD, FACS

In defining the components of any new cancer program, Danely P. Slaughter, MD, FACS, emphasized that any program wishing to be a true cancer program needed more than a cancer registry alone to qualify.

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Frank E. Adair, MD, FACS

Frank E. Adair, MD, FACS, had perhaps the longest tenure of any chair of the Commission on Cancer (CoC).

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