JOHN “DREW” RIDGE was elected president of the medical staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center – Temple Health. Ridge serves as chief of Head and Neck Surgery and Louis Della Penna Family Chair in Head and Neck Oncology.
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE will collaborate with Biocept Inc. to develop minimally invasive blood-based tests using Biocept's circulating tumor cell and circulating tumor DNA molecular diagnostic assay platforms to detect mutations in the estrogen receptor gene ESR1.
THE GUSTAVE ROUSSY Institute of Oncology is looking to recruit young doctors, pharmacists and engineers in France, Europe and the rest of the world, offering three-year research contracts to work with the institute's researchers toward the presentation of a doctoral thesis in sciences.
TERRILL JORDAN was named president and CEO of Regional Cancer Care Associates, effective Jan. 1, 2016.
DANIEL SIMON was named president of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, effective Jan. 1, 2016.
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ-GALINDO joined St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to head the International Outreach Program.
MIA LEVY was named director of Cancer Health Information and Strategy at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Levy is the Ingram Assistant Professor of Cancer Research and director of Cancer Clinical Informatics at the center.
ROBERT HAUSER was named vice president of clinical analytics at Cancer Treatment Centers of America Medicine & Science.
JENNIFER NAM CHOI was named chief of the Division of OncoDermatology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and associate professor in the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Choi will also join the melanoma team at Northwestern Medicine.
THE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE ANTI-FRAUD ASSOCIATION today presented its Investigation of the Year Award to a team of federal agencies together with a private health insurer for their collaborative work on the case of United States of America v. Farid Fata, MD.
