GW Cancer Center’s new interim leader said the practice will continue to provide cancer research, education and community care amid organizational changes and the departure of top senior leaders and clinical professors over the past year.
The School of Medicine & Health Sciences announced Wednesday that Alison Hall, the school’s senior associate dean for research, has assumed the role of interim director of the Cancer Center after the center’s former director, Julie Bauman, left the University in July. Hall said in a release she will prioritize the center’s research into discovery science, expand its core faculty and leverage partnerships with local and regional medical facilities as the center navigates organizational changes like the Medical Faculty Associates’ recent transition to the Capital Medical Group and its oncology and hematology departments’ transfer to Maryland Oncology Hematology.
Hall said in a University release Wednesday while the Cancer Center has experienced significant organizational changes following the restructuring of MFA’s clinical operations and the establishment of new partnerships with MOH and CMG, the changes also provide opportunities for enhancing the center’s research and clinical goals…