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Peter Paul Yu named physician-in-chief at Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute

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PETER PAUL YU was named physician-in-chief of the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute. Yu, a medical oncologist and hematologist, comes to Hartford HealthCare from Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, where he has worked since 1989. Since 2008, he has served as the organization’s director of cancer research. In 2015, Yu served as president of the...

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