For September 1, 1998

Dr. H. Richard Alexander is head of the Surgical Metabolism Section in NCI's Surgery Branch. Dr. Alexander is a native of Washington D.C., and earned his medical degree at Georgetown University. He did a surgical internship and a general surgery residency at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and trained in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Alexander spent two years in Yokosuka, Japan, as director of the Advance Trauma Life Support Program and Staff Surgeon at the Naval Hospital there.

He then spent two years at Cornell University as an instructor in surgery before joining NCI's Surgery Branch in 1989 as a cancer expert and senior investigator. He has headed the Surgical Metabolism Section since 1995.


Dr. David Bartlett is a senior investigator in the surgical metabolism section of NCI's Surgery Branch.

Dr. Bartlett earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry at Rice University in Houston and his medical degree at the University of Texas at Houston. He spent six years as a resident in surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and followed that with a two-year fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Dr. Bartlett joined the staff of NCI's Surgery Branch in 1995, and was made senior investigator a year later.


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