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Professional Activities


 

Membership in Professional Societies

  • Society of Sigma Xi
  • American Chemical Society:
    • Inorganic, Chemical Education, Bioinorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Divisions
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Huron Valley Local Section of the American Chemical Society:
    • Chairman, 5/85-5/86;
    • Chairman-Elect and Treasurer, 5/84-5/85;
    • Alternate Councilor 5/89-5/91;
    • Councilor, 5/92-5/94

Lectures and Organization of Symposia and Conferences

Presented 19 invited lectures; five were presented as part of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Traveling Lecture Program (1981-1982).

Topics

  1. Platinum Antitumor Agents: Selected Chemistry, Structure-Activity Relationships, and Recent Clinical Studies
  2. Gold(I) Complexes - Effective Agents in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
  3. Inorganic Concepts Relevant to Activity, Toxicity, and Binding of Metals/Metal Complexes in Biological Systems

Universities

  • Villanova University (1973)
  • University of Delaware and Delaware ACS Local Section (1975)
  • Indiana University (1976)
  • University of Tennessee (1977)
  • University of Kentucky (1980)
  • University of Southern California (1980)
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham (1981)
  • University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (1981)
  • College of St. Scholastica (Duluth, MN, 1981)
  • Kansas University (1982)
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1982)
  • Wayne State University (1984)
  • Eastern Michigan University (1985)
  • University of Auckland, N.Z. (1989)
  • University of Michigan (1985 and 1992)
  • Birbeck College, University of London (1992)
  • Illinois State University (2006)

Organized a symposium at the ACS Meeting in Atlantic City (1973) on the "Use of Pt Complexes in Cancer Chemotherapy."

Chaired sessions at "International Symposia on Pt Complexes," (Oxford, 1971 and Dallas, 1976). Presented an invited paper at the 4th International Symposium on Pt Coordination Complexes in Cancer Chemotherapy, Vermont, 6/83.