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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 and clinicians joined the institutions, new-patient volume grew from 3,500 to 9,000 through key affiliations, and participation in therapeutic clinical trials grew by 325 percent.

The center also renewed its NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center Grant, and joined the NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Schulam joined in 2012 as inaugural chief of the Department of Urology at Yale-New Haven Hospital and chair of the department at Yale School of Medicine, where he has established a multidisciplinary team in urologic oncology. He has implemented a program for MRI-fusion guided biopsy of prostate cancer and leads a research program focused on prostate cancer imaging. In addition, he co-founded the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology.

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