2025 Annual Meeting Awards
Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., Distinguished Achievement Award
The ASPO Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award is extended annually to an outstanding scientist in the area of preventive oncology, cancer control, and/or cancer prevention.
Please join us in congratulating Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD as this year’s Fraumeni Award Winner. Dr. Hiatt is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and also the Associate Director of Population Sciences for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC). He has been the Director of Population Sciences at the UCSF HDFCCC since 2003 and served as Chair of the UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 2006-2017. His research and teaching interests are in breast cancer, health inequities, and the social and environmental determinants of cancer. From 1998-2003 he was the first deputy director of the U. S. National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, where, among other things, he oversaw the extramural cancer epidemiology, health services research, and surveillance programs. Between 2003 and 2016 he led the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program and its Coordinating Center in San Francisco and served on the National Academy’s Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology from 2012-2018. He is a past president of the American Society of Preventive Oncology and the American College of Epidemiology from whom he received the Abraham Lilienfeld Award this year for distinguished service to the field of epidemiology. Currently at UCSF he is the Principal Investigator of the National Precision Medicine Initiative, All of Us, co-PI of the NCI’s Persistent Poverty Initiative, and directs the San Francisco Cancer Initiative (SF CAN).
Joseph W. Cullen Memorial Award
The Joseph W. Cullen Memorial Award aims to appreciate an individual’s distinguished achievement in continued national tobacco control interventions, through research, through the development of prevention and cessation programs with wide-reaching public health impact, or through public policy and advocacy initiatives. Congratulations to this year’s recipient, Dr. Jamie Ostroff!
Dr. Jamie Ostroff is the Chief of Behavioral Sciences Service, Director of the Tobacco Treatment, Training and Research Lab in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Co-Leader of the Population Sciences Research Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). Her clinical, research and training activities focus on addressing barriers and facilitators of high-quality implementation of tobacco treatment in cancer care and lung cancer screening settings, with particular attention to equity in access, utilization and cessation outcomes. Her CV lists over 240 journal peer-reviewed publications as well as invited presentations. Dr. Ostroff is a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. In 2022, she was awarded the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Cancer Special Interest Group’s Distinguished Senior Investigator Award. She was recently awarded the Ruth McCorkle Excellence in Research Mentorship Award from the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. She holds several national leadership positions including service to National Lung Cancer Roundtable, Commission on Cancer Just/Beyond ASK Task Force and the NCI-funded Cancer Centers Cessation Initiative (C3I).
Distinguished Service Award
The ASPO Distinguished Service Awards are given periodically to those individuals who have gone above and beyond in their service to the Society. This year, Dr. Henry Ciolino is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Henry P. Ciolino earned a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans, LA., and completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Rodney L. Levine in the Laboratory of Biochemistry of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Moving to the National Cancer Institute, he became a Staff Scientist in the Laboratory of Metabolism before joining the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Nutritional Sciences. There, he ran an NCI-funded laboratory that studied the effect of dietary agents on the metabolic pathway mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. He returned to the NCI in 2010 in the Office of Cancer Centers (OCC) and became Director of the OCC in 2015. As Director, he oversaw an extensive revision of the Cancer Center Support Grant in 2016, formulated new ways to fund cancer centers that resulted in significant increases in their funding, and introduced four new components to the Cancer Center Support Grant that transformed centers: Community Outreach and Engagement, Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination, Shared Resource Management, and the Plan to Enhance Diversity.
The recipients will be presented with their awards at ASPO’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.