Lisa Kachnic named chair of Columbia Department of Radiation Oncology, chief of Radiation Oncology Service at NY-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Lisa Kachnic was named chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and chief of the radiation oncology service at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center effective Sept. 1. She will also serve as associate director for Cancer Network Strategy in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Kachnic is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She previously served on the radiation oncology faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

A past president and current governor of the American Board of Radiology, Kachnic is the vice chair of the radiation oncology committee and co-chair of the ano-rectal subcommittee for the SWOG Cancer Research Network research base, where she serves as the multi-modality executive officer. Kachnic is also the chair of the NRG Oncology, NCI Community Oncology Research Program’s Cancer Control and Prevention Division, and is involved in NRG Oncology’s GI strategic committee.

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