SITEMAN CANCER CENTER at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis was awarded an “exceptional” rating, the highest possible, by the NCI, based on a rigorous peer review of Siteman's research programs. Siteman is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK announced it will join the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance.
Peter Schulam, professor of urology and chief of Yale’s Department of Urology, will serve as the interim director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief at Smilow. Lynch joined Yale Cancer Center as director in 2009 and assumed the role of inaugural physician-in-chief at Smilow, which opened that year. During his tenure, more than 130 scientists […]
THE CENTRE FOR DRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research announced a call for pre-proposals from Canadian academic investigators focused on early-stage technologies.
TIMOTHY LASH was named leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
KAREN RECKAMP was named medical director for clinical research operations at City of Hope.
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.
THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA will open its Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care July 27, just across from the main hospital. The center is part of the newly named Raymond G. Perelman Campus. The first clinical departments to occupy the new center will be orthopedics, oncology, radiology, and otolaryngology, with other subspecialties to follow.... […]
BRUCE QUINN joined FaegreBD Consulting as a senior director with the firm’s health and biosciences team in Washington, D.C., where he leads the firm’s health markets and reimbursement strategy consulting practice. Quinn is a national leader on Medicare policy, the impact of health reform on innovation and the crafting of successful business strategies within the... […]
CARRIE KITKO joined Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt as associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology/Oncology. Kitko was previously assistant professor of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program in the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan School... […]
