Warner K. Huh, M.D., FACOG, FACS, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been named chair of the NRG Oncology Cancer Prevention and Control Committee, effective immediately.

NRG Oncology seeks to improve the lives of cancer patients by conducting practice-changing, multi-institutional clinical and translational research with emphases on gender-specific malignancies including gynecologic, breast, and prostate cancers as well as localized or locally advanced cancers of all types.

In addition to this new role, Dr. Huh will assume responsibility for the the clinical trial titled “A Non-randomized Prospective Clinical Trial Comparing the Non-inferiority of Salpingectomy to Salpingo-oophorectomy to Reduce the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Among BRCA1 Carriers [SOROCk].”