Feb. 20, 2002

VCU surgeon gets life achievement award

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By Mike Frontiero
VCU School of Education

Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr., director emeritus of the Massey Cancer Center, has been awarded the Life Achievement in Science Award by the Science Museum of Virginia. Lawrence is an internationally recognized cancer surgeon, researcher and teacher and was the first director of what now is the Massey Cancer Center. The Science Museum recognized Lawrence and other honorees at the General Assembly on Feb. 19. They will be honored at a dinner on April 15.

Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr., center, stands in front of Science Museum ofVirginia Director Dr. Walter Witschey; Dr. Aaron I. Vinik of Eastern Virginia Medical School, and Virginia Tech University Distinguished Professor David G. I. Kingston, Ph.D. Del. Franklin P. Hall, head down at left, introduced the group.
Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr., center, stands in front of Science Museum ofVirginia Director Dr. Walter Witschey; Dr. Aaron I. Vinik of Eastern Virginia Medical School, and Virginia Tech University Distinguished Professor David G. I. Kingston, Ph.D. Del. Franklin P. Hall, head down at left, introduced the group.
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Dr. Walter Lawrence, Jr., right, director emeritus of the Massey Cancer Center, and Aaron I. Vinik, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and director of research at EVMS' Strelitz Diabetes Institutes, talk on the lawn at the Science Museum of Virginia following a news conference about the museum's achievement awards.

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