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The Steven Leibel, M.D. Memorial Fund

Donations in memory of Steven Leibel, M.D. may be made to the ABR Foundation. Dr. Leibel served as ABR president from 2004 to 2006 and was a member of the ABR Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2006. He died Feb. 7, 2008, of a heart attack while vacationing in Hawaii. He was 61.

The Steven Leibel, M.D. Memorial Fund will be dedicated to demonstrating, enhancing, and improving accountability to the public in the use of medical imaging and radiation therapy. Dr. Leibel believed strongly in these activities and worked tirelessly with the ABR to advance them. As an initial activity, the Foundation sponsored the Steven Leibel, M.D. Memorial Lecture during the 75th anniversary celebration of the American Board of Radiology on Oct. 3, 2009.

Please consider a donation to the Steven Leibel, M.D. Memorial Fund to honor a great person, as well as an outstanding leader and radiation oncologist.

About Dr. Leibel

Beginning in 2004, Dr. Leibel served as the first Ann and John Doerr Medical Director of the Stanford Cancer Center. He oversaw approximately 350 cancer specialists, including physicians in medical, surgical and radiation oncology and other health care professionals. Dr. Leibel played a key role in Stanford's successful effort to receive National Cancer Institute designation for the newly opened cancer center.

A San Francisco native, Dr. Leibel earned his medical degree from UC-San Francisco, where he also completed residency training in radiation oncology. He served on the faculties at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and UCSF before moving to New York in 1988 to join the Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. He became chair of that department in 1998.

While at Sloan-Kettering, Leibel helped develop extremely precise therapies for treating cancers of the prostate and the brain, including 3-D conformal radiation therapy and intensity-modulated radiation therapy. These sophisticated new techniques more precisely target tumors with high-dose radiation while sparing normal tissues. The result has been a significant improvement in cure rates for some cancers.

Richard Hoppe, MD, professor and chair of radiation oncology at Stanford, said the radiation technique Leibel advocated has become standard care in prostate cancer. "He was one of the most widely respected radiation oncologists in the field," he said.

In addition to his service on the ABR Board, Dr. Leibel was president and chair of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology and received the society's highest honor, its gold medal.