Mass General Brigham aims to become the global leader in cancer — and the new appointments are a “vital next step” in that process, according to an April 3 news release shared with Becker’s.
The effort was led by David F. M. Brown, MD, president of the system’s academic medical centers; Giles Boland, MD, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and its physicians organization; Marcela del Carmen, MD, president of Massachusetts General Hospital and its physicians organization; and O’Neil Britton, MD, the system’s chief integration officer. Department chairs and hospital administrators also collaborated on the endowments.
The following 21 physicians — listed below their organizations and alongside their fields of expertise — were named endowed chairs.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital:
Ayal Aizer, MD — radiation oncology
Tracy Balboni, MD — radiation oncology
Thomas Clancy, MD — surgery/surgical oncology
Jason Hornick, MD, PhD — pathology
Nicole Leboeuf, MD — dermatology
Mark Preston, MD — urology
Stuart Schnitt, MD — pathology
Jonathan Schoenfeld, MD — radiation oncology
Lynette Sholl, MD — pathology
Sean Stowell, MD, PhD — pathology
Jiping Wang, MD, PhD — surgery/surgical oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital:
Bryan Choi, MD, PhD — neurosurgery
Theodore Hong, MD — radiation oncology
Camille Kotton, MD — medicine/infectious disease
Santiago Lozano-Calderon, MD, PhD — orthopedics
Tomas Neilan, MD — cardiology
Rocco Ricciardi, MD — surgery/colorectal
Helen Shih, MD — radiation oncology
Aliyah Sohani, MD — pathology
Michelle Specht, MD — surgery/breast
Jennifer Temel, MD — medical oncology
