THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $25 million pledge from philanthropists James and Elizabeth McDonnell for the schools genomics institute. With the gift, the institute will be named The Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Genome Institute.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute named the winners of its 2014 James Hope Award.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and UnitedHealthcare launched a pilot program for a cancer care payment model for head and neck cancers using bundled payments.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute opened in a new hospital building, following a four-phase transition that involved 700 staff and volunteers, spanning three days.
DAVID CURROW was named director of palliative medicine and hospice care at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system.
BORIS KUVSHINOFF II was named chief medical quality officer and interim chief medical officer at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
MARCELO BENTO SOARES was named senior associate dean for research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.
WELDON GAGE was named vice president and chief financial officer of MD Anderson Cancer Center, effective Jan. 12, 2015.
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and Research Foundation launched a $100 million, multi-year fundraising initiative to support patient access to clinical trials as well as immunotherapy research.
THE CROWDCARE FOUNDATION announced the first crowdfunding initiative for myeloma research at the 2014 conference of the American Society of Hematology.
