Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 24, 2003|Volume 32, Number 8

Yale Cancer Center names
associate director for policy

Jerold R. Mande, a lecturer in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine, has been named associate director for policy at the Yale Cancer Center.

Mande helped shape national policy on cancer and tobacco during the Clinton administration and formerly served as director of policy programs for the School of Medicine.

In his new post, Mande will help define Yale's role in the State of Connecticut's Cancer Control Plan in conjunction with the Cancer Center Partnership. He hopes to work with the state's Department of Public Health, the University of Connecticut, and leading businesses and advocates in the state to increase the funds spent on cancer research, care, early detection and prevention.

"As a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, we have a responsibility to all of the state's residents," says Dr. Richard L. Edelson, director of the Yale Cancer Center. "Our duty is to make our state a model in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. There is a wealth of talent in this state to accomplish our goal; we need to enlist that talent for the benefit of the population we represent, as well as our clinical and scientific programs. Collectively this is an extraordinary opportunity for all parties, but will require wise and dynamic leadership. Jerry Mande brings abundant skills, honed from his central roles in helping shape national heath care policies, to the Yale Cancer Center. We are delighted to have him on our leadership team."

In addition to his work on the State Cancer Plan initiative, Mande will work with Edelson to promote shared decision-making for patients at the Yale Cancer Center, allowing them access to both web-based and video strategies for cancer care. The planned program will be developed in conjunction with the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, a Dartmouth- and Harvard-based group, and will help patients to select the treatment path that best fits their preferences and values.

"I am very excited to join the Yale Cancer Center at a time when decades of research is giving way to dramatic new cancer treatments, and the need for new policy to support them," says Mande.

Mande came to Yale in 2002 to serve as director of policy programs for the School of Medicine. Prior to that, he spent 20 years in Washington, D.C. in senior public policy roles. On the White House staff, he advised Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton on tobacco policy. He was deputy administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and senior adviser and executive assistant to the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 1991-1997. At the FDA, he led the design of the Nutrition Facts food label and supervised the agency's landmark tobacco regulation. He is a founding member of the National Dialogue on Cancer and has chaired the Task Force on State Tobacco Funding since 2001.

Mande received his B.S. from the University of Connecticut and a master's of public health from the University of North Carolina. He is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Program for Senior Managers in Government at Harvard University. He is married to Dr. Elizabeth Drye, a resident in pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

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