Background
Lotze, Michael Thomas was born on July 11, 1952 in Altadena, California, United States. Son of Thomas Hilary and Joanne Bernice (Bellas) Lotze.
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Michael Thomas Lotze
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Bachelor, Northwestern University, 1973; Doctor of Medicine with honours, Northwestern University, 1974.
Career
Junior fellow in Surgery, M.D. Anderson Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas, 1975;
intern, resident, Stong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, 1975-1976;
assistant resident in surgery, Stong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, 1976-1977;
fellow surgery branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1978-1980;
senior and chief resident surgery, instructor, U. Rochester, New York, 1980-1982;
assistant professor surgery, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland., 1983-1988;
associate professor surgery, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, 1988-1990;
professor surgery, molecular genetics and biochemistry, chief section surgical oncology U. Pittsburgh, since 1990;
co-director human gene therapy program, Pittsburgh Genetics Institute, since 1991;
co-director division biological therapeutics, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, since 1992. Member numerous groups involved in research on melanoma and other cancers including: coordinator National Institutes of Health Melanoma Working Group, 1985-1987, Review Board United Cancer Council, Inc., Rochester, 1985-1987, chairman special study section Experimental Immunology National Institutes of Health, 1990, member planning committee National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Melanoma, 1991, member search committee Chair U. Pittsburgh Medical Center director radiation oncology, 1992, Mellon Dickson Prize committee U. Pitt. School Medicine, 1993-1995.
Visiting professor Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1987, Academy Sinica/Veteran's General Hosp, Tapei, Taiwan, 1993. Co-organizer Keystone Symposium on Cellular Innunity and the Immunotherapy of Cancer, Park City, Utah, 1990, Keystone Symposium onMelanoma and Biology of the Neural Crest, Taos, N. Mexico, 1992. on Cellular Immunity and the Immunotherapy of CancerII, Taos, 1993. Organizer 2d International Congress on Biological Response Modifiers, San Diego, 1993.
Achievements
Membership
Medical Officer, National Health Svc. Corps, 1977-1978. Fellow American College Surgeons. Member American Medical Association, American Association Cancer Research (program committee 1991), American Association Immunology (program committee 1990, 92), American Society Clinical Oncology, Association Academy Surgery, Cell Transplant Society, Clinical Immunological Society (program committee 1993), Society for Analytical Cytology, Society for Surgical Oncology (program committee 1992, 93, clinical affairs committee 1991-1993), Society University Surgeons, Society for Biologic Therapy (program committee 1991-1993), World Association Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery.
Connections
Married Joan Harvey, June25, 1977. Children: Thomas, Anna, Michael, Jenette.
