Strauss joins Gamma Medica's scientific and medical advisory board

William Strauss, MD, clinical chief of Nuclear Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and professor of Radiology at Cornell University's Weill School of Medicine, has been appointed chairman of Gamma Medica Inc.'s Scientific and Medical Advisory Board.

Strauss has held clinical and academic appointments at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School and at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he was the chief of the division of Nuclear Medicine. He also previously held the position of VP, Diagnostics Drug Discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, N.J.

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