Background
Cady, Blake was born on December 27, 1930 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of John Parmalee and Elizabeth (Blake) Cady.
Cady, Blake was born on December 27, 1930 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of John Parmalee and Elizabeth (Blake) Cady.
AB, Amherst College, 1953; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1957.
Intern Tufts Surgical Svc., Boston City Hospital, 1957-1958;
resident Tufts Surgical Society, Boston City Hospital, 1958-1959;
resident Harvard Surgical Svc., Boston City Hospital, 1961-1965;
United States Public Health Service clinic cancer trainee, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York City, 1965-1967;
fellow in surgery, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1965-1967;
fellow, Sloan-Kettering Institute, 1965-1967;
staff surgeon, Lahey Medical Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, 1967-1981;
member surgical staff, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, since 1967;
member surgical staff, New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, 1975-1981;
member surgical staff, Brooks Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1975-1981;
chief surgical oncology, New England Deaconess, Boston, since 1982. Surgical liaison Dana Farber Cancer Center, Boston, since 1982. Consultant surgery Uganda Cancer Institute, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa, 1971.
Associate clinical professor surgery Harvard Medical School, 1975-1982, associate professor, 1982-1991, professor since 1991, member main admissions committee, 1982-1992, chairman subcommittee II admissions committee, 1982-1991. Chairman smoking policy com.New England Deaconess Hospital,1984-, chairman cancer committee, since 1982, chairman tissue committee, 1978-1981, director smoking policy committee, since 1984, Executive Committee Deaconess surgical service, since 1982.
Board of directors Massachusetts division American Cancer Society, 1974, president, 1991-1993, national board directors, since 1993, president, chairman tobacco policy committee, 1991-1993. Chairman, Board Of Directors Massachusetts chapter Group Against Smoking Pollution, since 1984. Board directors capital fundraising committee Planned Parenthood League Massachusetts, 1984-1985.
Board directors STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco), since 1990. Chairman Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Future, 1991-1993, Tobacco Control Oversight Council Massachusetts. President James Ewing Foundation, 1988.
Lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Navy, 1959-1961. Member American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons (Massachusetts chapter, special representative to regional cancer control com.subcom., regional cancer control committee), American Surgical Association, Society Surgical Oncology (program chairman national meetings 1980, 81, chairman research committee 1980-1982, secretary 1984-1986, vice president since 1986, president-elect 1987-1988, president 1988, Chairman.exec. committee 1989-1990), Society Head and Neck Surgeons (program committee 1980), American Association Endocrine Surgeons (vice president 1982, local arrangements chairman 1988, executive county 1986-1990, secretary/treasurer since 1991), New England Cancer Society (treasurer 1976-1983, secretary 1983-1987, president 1991), New England Surgical Society (recorder 1989, president since 1995), Massachusetts Medical Society, Society for Surgery of Alimentary Tract, Boston Surgical Society (president 1993), Halstead Society.
Married Elizabeth Wilder, January 6, 1960. Children: Brian, Suzanne, Pamela.
