Mission restoration: Leading NIH into the post-Covid world
Monica Bertagnolli, 64, started her training as a cancer surgeon in the 1980s when it was still a boy’s club, but racked up accolades and leadership roles. | Pool photo by Jeff ChiuMonica Bertagnolli, the Boston cancer surgeon President Biden picked on Monday to lead the National Institutes of Health, faces a daunting job at the nation’s premier health research agency: restoring faith in science.
Bertagnolli will have to decide how to respond to GOP concerns about research on potentially dangerous viruses, and Independent Sen.But in announcing her nomination, Biden steered clear of those controversies. Instead, he cited her work as head of the National Cancer Institute, an NIH agency. “Dr. Bertagnolli has advanced my Cancer Moonshot to end cancer as we know it.
“She’s a female leader in oncology. There are not as many of us as there could be,” said Karen Knudsen, CEO of the American Cancer Society, where Bertagnolli has served on the board. “She did the most difficult, messiest ones, where you have to find solutions to hairy problems,” he said, all the while running a tight, focused — and somehow joyful — operating room. “She comes into the operating room and she’s happy every day,” said Gawande.She received an early-stage breast cancer diagnosis just months into her new job at the National Cancer Institute.
Even with a career’s worth of achievements in science, Bertagnolli’s surgical background isn’t typical training for an NIH head. “Monica is Monica. People don’t call her Dr. Bertagnolli. She’s Monica. She can take full advantage of that,” Demetri said.
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