THOMAS LYNCH JR., director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, will leave Yale in August to become chairman and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.
Schulam to Serve as Interim Director of Yale Cancer Center as Lynch Plans to Step Down
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