Prestigious Interurban Clinical Club Welcomes Fox Chase’s David S. Weinberg

PHILADELPHIA (November 11, 2016) — David S. Weinberg, MD, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been elected to the Interurban Clinical Club.

In a unanimous vote by the council and general membership, Weinberg was voted in as an active member in a meeting on November 4 in Philadelphia. He will be welcomed at the group’s next meeting in April 2017 in Baltimore.

The Interurban Clinical Club was founded in 1905 to provide medical teachers in some of the leading medical schools on the east coast a forum to share ideas and fellowship. The meetings take place twice a year in a select group of rotating cities—New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Haven.

Weinberg will join his Fox Chase colleagues Richard I. Fisher, MD, Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD, and Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, in representing the Center in this organization.

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Fox Chase), which includes the Institute for Cancer Research and the American Oncologic Hospital and is a part of Temple Health, is one of the leading comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. Founded in 1904 in Philadelphia as one of the nation’s first cancer hospitals, Fox Chase was also among the first institutions to be designated a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1974. Fox Chase is also one of just 10 members of the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers. Fox Chase researchers have won the highest awards in their fields, including two Nobel Prizes. Fox Chase physicians are also routinely recognized in national rankings, and the Center’s nursing program has received the Magnet recognition for excellence six consecutive times. Today, Fox Chase conducts a broad array of nationally competitive basic, translational, and clinical research, with special programs in cancer prevention, detection, survivorship, and community outreach. It is the policy of Fox Chase Cancer Center that there shall be no exclusion from, or participation in, and no one denied the benefits of, the delivery of quality medical care on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, disability, age, ancestry, color, national origin, physical ability, level of education, or source of payment.

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