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Richard C. Wender, M.D., Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, will be honored by the American Cancer Society, Pennsylvania Division, Southeast Region. At the October 19 event, he will be presented with the Cancer Control Award.

Dr. Wender is also President-Elect of the American Cancer Society, a role he will begin in November. He is the first primary care physician to assume the presidency of the national society.

The Cancer Control Award is given to honor exemplary individual achievements in this field. Dr. Wender has been involved with the American Cancer Society since the mid-1980s, serving at the local, divisional and national levels. He has also been a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s prostate and colorectal cancer task forces. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Board of Directors for the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable, and he has served as co-director of the Cancer Research Foundation of America’s colon cancer conference for the past three years.