serving from 1993 to 2003. In 2004, he was named as the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale University, a position to be renamed the Vincent T. DeVita Professor of Medicine after his tenure. He is currently the chair of the Yale Cancer Center advisory board and is professor of internal medicine and of epidemiology and public health at Yale's medical school. From 2012-2013, DeVita served as president of the board of directors of the American Cancer Society. DeVita currently serves on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and has authored over 450 scientific articles. He is a co-editor of the textbook Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, in its 10th edition, and serves as the co-editor-in-chief of The Cancer Journal. He is also the co-author, with his daughter Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, of the autobiographical book, The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable—and How We Can Get There. He was a participant in Ken Burns' 2015 PBS documentary Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, which was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Personal life Vincent DeVita married Mary Kay Bush, with whom he has had two children, Ted and Elizabeth. Vincent DeVita diagnosed his son Ted as a child with aplastic anemia. Ted thereafter was placed in a sterile environment for his safety, and died in 1980 at the age of 17. Ted's situation, and that of David Vetter, inspired the 1976 TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta. His daughter Elizabeth has written about the experience of losing her brother in The Empty Room. Vincent DeVita has been treated for prostate cancer. Awards 1972, Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award 2007, Statesman Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2007, FREDDIE Special Award for Public Service 2009, Distinguished Medical Science Award, Friends of the National Library of Medicine 2014, fellow, American Association for Cancer Research Bibliography See also Cancer (2015 PBS film) History of cancer History of cancer chemotherapy References 1935 births Living people American oncologists Cancer researchers George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences alumni College of William & Mary alumni Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Members of the National Academy of Medicine