MINESH MEHTA joined Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida as deputy director and chief of radiation oncology.
Mehta comes to Baptist Health from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he served as medical director of the Maryland Proton Treatment Center in Baltimore—the area’s first proton treatment center, which he helped to launch.
Mehta was also the university’s associate director of clinical research in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Prior to his time at Maryland, he held academic, research and administrative leadership positions at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed chairman of the medical school’s Department of Human Oncology and led research studies, technology development and expansion at the University of Wisconsin Cancer Center. He also headed the university’s brain tumor program for more than 15 years. At the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago, Mehta was co-director of the Radiation Oncology Residency Training Program.
The Miami Cancer Institute’s new $430-million proton therapy facility, opening in 2016 and located on the Baptist Hospital of Miami campus, expects to treat its first patient with proton therapy in 2017.
