Arvin S. Glicksman, M.D.

Executive Director
Rhode Island Cancer Council, Inc.

After medical school in Chicago and an internship at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Glicksman was awarded an Atomic Energy Commission Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship and worked at Duke University and at Brookhaven National Laboratories. He continued his research at Sloan-Kettering Institute and joined the staff of Memorial Hospital and Sloan-Kettering Institute where he worked for fifteen years. He was a recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and continued cancer research activities at the Institute for Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital, in London. He then joined the faculty at the Mount Sinai Medical School and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York as a Professor of Radiotherapy.

In 1973 he was recruited by Brown University to head up a new program in Radiation Medicine and served as the Chairman of the Department of Radiation Medicine at Brown for seventeen years. He is now an Emeritus Professor. At the same time he was the Director of Radiation Oncology at Rhode Island Hospital and at the Roger Williams Medical Center. During that time he went on sabbatical leave as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Middle East.

Dr. Glicksman developed and chaired the Quality Assurance Review Center for the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials Program. He stepped down after twenty-five years to become the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Cancer Council. In his long research career, he has published more than two hundred papers and has received many awards and honors, including Distinguished Alumni Awards from Chicago Medical School and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He also received the St. George Medal of the American Cancer Society and the Ben Gurion Medal from Ben Gurion University in the Negev in Israel. His biography appears in "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in the World," "Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare," and "Who's Who in American Science and Engineering." At this time, besides his work at the Rhode Island Cancer Council, Dr. Glicksman maintains a private practice of Radiation Oncology.