When Naoto T. Ueno left MD Anderson to become director of the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, he took one of the most challenging jobs in oncology.
Medicare has started to pay for navigation for guiding patients through the maze of health care services in settings where treatment involves multiple specialties.
The decision by the American Society of Clinical Oncology to venture into the business of Big Data was inspired by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a law focused on “putting America back to work,” Clifford A. Hudis, ASCO’s CEO said to The Cancer Letter.
Vinay Prasad, a social media phenom and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, recently stunned his colleagues by stating that doctors at Vanderbilt University acted in a “despicable” manner when they offered a double lung transplant to a lung cancer patient. “The doctors at Vanderbilt are despicable in my... […]
As a data scientist and software engineer, Razik Yousfi builds artificial intelligence models in health care. He started doing this 15 years ago, long before advanced chatbots catapulted AI into the layman’s consciousness.
John Carpten, when he was named director of the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in April, took over a massive, newly formed national oncology network—the first of its kind.
A year ago, Renee Wegrzyn signed up for a very cool job. As the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, she was to prove that the nontraditional, $2.5 billion experiment will yield the kind of high impact its high-risk investment model promises. Since Wegrzyn joined the agency in October 2022, ARPA-H has […]
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center received NCI’s Comprehensive designation just 10 whip-fast years after the center received its initial Cancer Center designation.
The American Association for Cancer Research has established the AACR Cancer Centers Alliance to foster collaboration between cancer centers.
Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center can now add the word “Comprehensive” to its logo.
