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JULY
18, 2003 | The American Cancer Society
will honor the founder of one of the first
biotechnology companies to emerge from the
University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences (UAMS) tonight for helping
restore the appearance of hundreds of
people disfigured by cancer.
L. Daniel Eaton, B.C.O., I.M.F.T., founder
of ContourMed and an assistant clinical
professor in the Department of Surgery of
the UAMS College of Medicine, will accept
a Legends Award for research from the
American Cancer Society this weekend.
Eaton is the inventor of the patented
ContourMed lightweight, custom breast
prosthesis. ContourMed is one of the first
companies to emerge from UAMS BioVentures,
a research and development program that
helps launch biotechnology companies in
Arkansas
.
Eaton
is a member of the National Examining
Board of Ocularists, the American Society
of Ocularists, and the Institutional
Animal Use and Care Committee at UAMS, and
is a principal for the National
Collaborative Melanoma Study. He is a
member of the American Association of
Medical Sculptors, the International
Academy of Oculofacial Prosthetologists,
the Society of Illustrators, the
Institute
of
Maxillofacial
Technologies
,
the American Alloplastic Association and
Pi Kappa Alpha.
Eaton
earned a master’s degree in medical
illustration with a minor in human gross
anatomy from the University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine. He earned his
undergraduate degree from
Arizona
State
University
.
Eaton has obtained more than 250 hours of
post-graduate training in gross anatomy,
oculofacial prosthetology, elastomer
chemistry and maxillofacial
osseointegration.
The society also will honor the following
“legends”: Dennis Jungmeyer, Josephine
Raye Rogers, Josetta Wilkins, Freda Heard,
and the Arkansas Prostate Cancer
Foundation.
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