C Norman Coleman

The Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, caused severe damage to the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and led to a radioactive leakage. After a stint in medical oncology at NCI, Coleman moved to California where he trained in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco and then, beginning in 1978, in radiation therapy at Stanford University. “Radiation therapy is a small subspecialty and it can be lost in the big world of the NCI”, says Marc Mendonca, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, IN.