LSU Health New Orleans’ Stewart Focus of NCI Black History Month Spotlight

This week’s National Cancer Institute Black History Month Spotlight features John Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS, Professor of Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and Founding Director of the LSU Health New Orleans/LCMC Cancer Center. The NCI is recognizing Dr. Stewart and other NCI Center to Reduce Health Disparities (CRCHD) Scholars. Stewart has been an NCI CRCHD Scholar since 2006.

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According to the NCI, “the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities is central to NCI’s efforts to reduce the unequal burden of cancer in our society via basic and community research, as well as networks, and to train the next generation of competitive researchers from diverse populations in cancer and cancer health disparities research.”

Dr. Stewart spent four years in the Surgery Branch of the NCI, where his interest in tumor immunotherapy and its translation into clinical trials was born. He talked about that experience, his role models, black heroes of history and today, his research, and what it meant to him to come home to lead the new LSU Health New Orleans-LCMC Cancer Center.

“This is the greatest honor of my professional career,” Stewart said. “Our vision is to develop a world-renowned Cancer Center that will foster unprecedented programmatic success for the State of Louisiana.”

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