National Comprehensive Cancer Network Names Dr. Robert Carlson CEO

Robert Carlson, MD, has been named CEO of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a non-profit alliance of 21 of the world’s leading cancer centers, based in Fort Washington, Pa.

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Dr. Carlson will officially join NCCN Jan. 2, 2013. He comes to NCCN from Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., where he has been a professor of medicine in the Division of Oncology and Stanford Medical Informatics. He is also the medical director of inpatient oncology and hematology at Stanford Cancer Institute, one of NCCN’s member institutions.

Dr. Carlson is board certified in medical oncology and internal medicine.

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