2025 Rachel Pearline Award
The ASGCR Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the 2025 Rachel Pearline Award recipient is Asem H. Mansour, M.D., Chief Executive Officer and Director General of the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC), Amman, Jordan.
Dr. Mansour is a board-certified Diagnostic Radiologist with a sub-specialization in Neuroradiology and previously chaired the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at KHCC. Dr. Mansour is the Executive Chairman of the Jordan Breast Cancer Program (2006–present), a Board Member of the Union for International Cancer Control (2024–2026), and a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems. Under his leadership, KHCC attained Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and became an Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Programs (AHAARP) accredited academic institution in 2019. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and co-authored two eBooks in Frontiers in Medicine. He is also the author of Cancer at Zero Distance: When Cells Betray the Body (2025) and Two Years of Solitude (2021). Dr. Mansour earned his MD from Vitebsk Medical Institute in Belarus, Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) from the Royal College of Radiologists (UK), Master of Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University (US), and MSc in International Public Health from Liverpool John Moores University (UK). He is a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) through the American Association for Physician Leadership. In 2024, Dr. Mansour was awarded the Kuwait Prize in recognition of his exceptional contributions to Cancer Care.
Dr. Mansour will be giving the Rachel Pearline Award Keynote Address on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 10:50-11:20AM during the 13th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research.
The Rachel Pearline Award honors Rachel Pearline, MD, MPH. Dr. Pearline was a revered oncology fellow who received the award named in her memory in 2016 following her death at the age of 38, in November 2015, from gastric cancer. While in medical school, she completed rotations in South Africa, Haiti, Romania, and rural China where she learned to speak Mandarin fluently. For her work, she received a prestigious Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship and Tulane University’s award for “Outstanding International Relationships.” Dr. Pearline was virtuously committed to global cancer control and provided quality care to her patients. She viewed the practice of medicine as a privilege, always striving to serve her patients better.
Previous Rachel Pearline Award Winners
2024 Benda Kithaka, Founder and Executive Director, KILELE Health, Nairobi, Kenya
2023 Yin Ling Woo, MA, MRCOG, PhD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Malaysia
2022 C. S. Pramesh, MD, Director, Tata Memorial Hospital, Professor and Head of Thoracic Surgery, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India
2021 Karla Alfaro, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Basic Health International, San Salvador, El Salvador
2020 Frederick Chite Asirwa, MD, Consultant Physician, Medical Oncologist & Hematologist, CEO, International Cancer Institute (ICI), Eldoret, Kenya
2018 You-lin Qiao, MD, PhD, professor and Director for Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Beijing, China.
2017 Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD, Executive Vice President and Chair of the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine and Director of the International Outreach Program
2016 Rachel Pearline, MD, MPH, Diplomate of Medical Oncology