Samir S. Taneja was selected to lead Northwell Health’s urology service line. He was appointed senior vice president, Northwell’s system chair of urology, and chair of the Smith Institute for Urology at Northwell Health.
When our hematological malignancy testing pilot project began in Eldoret, Kenya, there seemed to be a mismatch in relation to progress in healthcare. The region, like much of sub-Saharan Africa, had been focusing on combatting infectious diseases such as HIV and malaria—which was much-needed—yet cancer care was under-resourced.
