Arti Hurria

Hurria received several awards during her career, including the Frederick Stenn Memorial Award for Humanism in Medicine and the Paul Calabresi and B J Kennedy Awards for excellence in the field of geriatric oncology. Hyman Muss, who has the Mary Jones Hudson Distinguished Professorship in Geriatric Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, NC, USA, met Hurria in 2004 when she was a fellow attending a clinical trials consortium and was impressed with her ability to usher through a protocol for a way of assessing older patients. Hurria responded with a list that included building a facility “where older adults get evidence-based multidisciplinary care in one location that is sensitive to the needs of older adults”, creating a “mobile geriatric oncology team that travels to all patients who are receiving chemotherapy”, establishing a programme to “provide care for socially isolated older adults at the end of life”, and other initiatives.