Calvert Health System in Prince Frederick, Md., named Theodore Tsangaris, MD, program director for the cancer center and CMO.
Dr. Tsangaris, who assumed the role Sept. 9, previously served as chief of breast surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College and surgical director of Jefferson Breast Care Center, both located in Philadelphia. He has 30 years of clinical expertise in oncology.
He has also served as director of the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center and chief of breast surgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
Dr. Tsangaris has co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed research articles and is an author of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice's "Guidelines in Oncology: Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis."
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