Gerold Bepler is the former president and chief executive officer of the
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan.
[http://www.karmanos.or]
Retrieved 2017-03-23
Biography
Bepler received his medical and doctoral degrees from the
University of Marburg, Philipps University School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Marburg in Marburg, Germany. His postdoctoral fellowships were at the
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...
,
Philipps University and at
Duke University Medical Center.
He held positions at Duke University Hospital and Durham VA Medical Center, and then as director of the Lung Cancer Program at
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, N.Y. He was then director of the Comprehensive Lung Cancer Research Center, department chair of Thoracic Oncology, and program leader of the Lung Cancer Program at the
Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
He came to the Karmanos Cancer Institute in 2010.
Professional work
As a thoracic oncologist, Bepler's research focuses on studying risks, progression, treatments and outcomes related to lung cancer, with an emphasis on non-small cell lung cancer.
He has secured more than $65 million in cancer-related research funding since the mid-1980s.
He has had articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Cancer Research.
[home.med.wayne.edu.or]
Retrieved 2010-08-11
Bepler also serves as principal investigator of the National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bepler, Gerold
Living people
German healthcare chief executives
German oncologists
Year of birth missing (living people)