Dr. Veena Shankaran of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was honored Thursday with a Gold Award for Achievement in Medical Research at Seattle Business magazine’s 2019 Leaders in Health Care Awards banquet at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Seattle.
Shankaran is co-director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, or HICOR, and an oncologist who treats patients with gastrointestinal cancers. She is a national leader in studying “financial toxicity” in cancer care— that is, the personal financial problems that are too often a result of cancer treatment. Her research and leadership focus on developing new approaches to measure and mitigate these problems.
