2009's Event
On September 25, Living Through Cancer presented the In The Looking Glass Award to Dr. Edith Peterson Mitchell. Read More
On September 25, 2009 The Living Through Cancer Foundation presented its In The Looking Glass Award to Edith Peterson Mitchell M.D., FACP. Dr. Mitchell is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, Program Leader of Gastrointestinal Oncology, and Associate Director of Diversity for The Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University. The 2009 award was given in memory of Elise Gombos.
Dr. Mitchell received a B.S. in biochemistry from Tennessee State University and her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. In 1973, while attending medical school, Dr. Mitchell entered the Air Force and received a commission through the Health Professions Scholarship Program. She entered active duty after completion of her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Meharry Medical College and a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Georgetown University.
Dr. Mitchell is a Fellow of the America College of Physicians and a member of the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, Aerospace Medical Association, Association of Military Surgeons, and the Medical Society of Eastern Pennsylvania. She also belongs to the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, and the Philadelphia Society of Medicine.
Dr. Mitchell has authored and co-authored more than 100 articles, book chapters, and abstracts on cancer treatment, prevention, and cancer control. As a distinguished researcher, she has received 21 Cancer Research and Principal Investigator Awards, and serves on the National Cancer Institute Review Panel and the Cancer Investigations Review Committee.
In addition to her medical achievements, Dr. Mitchell is a retired Brigadier General from the Air National Guard. In this capacity, she served as Assistant to the Command Surgeon of the U.S. Transportation command and headquarters Air Mobility Command based at the Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. She also served as the senior medical Air National Guard advisor to the command surgeon and the medical liaison between the active Air Force and the Air National Guard. Her responsibility in this role included ensuring maximum wartime readiness and combat support capability of the worldwide patient movement and aero medical evacuation system, the Global Patient Movement Requirements Center and AMC's 52 Air National Guard medical squadrons.
General Mitchell has been awarded over fifteen military service medals and ribbons including the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Fprce Achievement and Commendation Medals, National Defense Service Medal, and Humanitarian Service Medal.
