President
Lodovico Balducci, MD
Vice President/President Elect
Richard K. Spence, MD
Immediate Past President
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Secretary/Treasurer
Andrew Artz, MD, MS
At-Large Members
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP
William B. Ershler, MD
Members
Inder Anand, MD, FRCP, DPHIL
Jeffrey S. Berns, MD
Richard D. Brasington, Jr., MD
Paul W. Crawford, MD
Arnold J. Friedman, MD
Daniel E. Furst, MD
Wayne Levy, MD
Janet B. McGill, MD
Lillian M. Nail, PhD, RN, FAAN
Jerry L. Spivak, MD
Lloyd P. Van Winkle, MD
Bradley A. Warady, MD
Roslyn Yomtovian, MD
Lodovico Balducci, MD
NAAC President
Education/Programming Task Force Chair
Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Specialty: Hematology, Oncology
Lodovico Balducci is Professor of Medicine & Oncology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Geriatric Oncology, Senior Adult Oncology Program, at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Balducci received his medical degree from Catholic University, Rome, Italy, and his residency training and fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Dr. Balducci has edited five textbooks on geriatric oncology and completed editing two books on geriatric hematology, which will be published in 2007. He currently leads one of the three existing geriatric oncology program in the country and the world. Dr. Balducci has published over 250 articles in various medical journals on the subject of geriatric oncology, and five monographs on geriatric oncology. Dr. Balducci’s clinical research activities include cancer and aging, management of the frail elderly, assessment of quality of life in the older cancer patient, prognostic assessment of the older cancer patient, and interactions of comorbidity and function in the older cancer patient. Dr. Balducci is a member of ASCO’s Grant Selection Committee, and ASCO’s Cancer & Aging Task Force and Oncology Workforce Task Force.
In 2003, Dr. Balducci was selected to present the first Paul Calabresi Memorial Lecture by the The International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) in Rome, Italy. In 2003, he also received the ACCC award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research, and was the 2003 Physician of the Year at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. In 2007 he received the Medi Tavossoli Lecture Award for Innovative Research in Hematology in the Elderly and the ASCO’s B.J. Kennedy Award and Lecture for Scientific Excellence in Geriatric Oncology.
Dr. Balducci is board certified in Medical Oncology/Hematology. He is a member of the American Geriatrics Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Association for Cancer Research, American Society of Hematology, American Society of Breast Disease, and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Balducci has lectured throughout the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.