Lifespan Names David Wazer Director of Cancer Center
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
David Wazer, M.D. has been appointed director of the Lifespan Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC).
In this role, Wazer will oversee cancer services across Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital to deepen Lifespan's capabilities in cancer care, broaden its research, and ensure the highest standards of care and support for patients and families.
“We are truly fortunate to have Dr. Wazer leading our cancer services. He is deeply committed to providing our patients lifesaving cancer treatment within a world-class program. Dr. Wazer is not only internationally renowned for his clinical and research expertise, but he has demonstrated extraordinary leadership,” said Lifespan president and chief executive officer Timothy J. Babineau, M.D.
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Wazer is an internationally recognized expert in radiation oncology and has served as interim director of the CCC since November 2014. In that time, Wazer has been integral to advancing a proposed partnership between Lifespan and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. That partnership is another approach to ensuring access to the best possible care for patients through every phase of their cancer treatment and recovery.
Wazer has published over 250 scientific articles and authored several books.
In addition, he is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Clinical Oncology and serves as associate editor of the journals Brachytherapy, Frontiers in Oncology and Breast Diseases: a Yearbook Quarterly.
Wazer will continue in his role as radiation oncologist-in-chief as Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital. He also serves as professor and chairman of the department of radiation oncology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) is Rhode Island’s largest center dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of all cancers and blood disorders, to cutting-edge research and clinical trials; and to the survival and follow-up care of all patients. The CCC brings together world-renowned physicians, specialists and researchers from Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital, forming a multidisciplinary team whose level of knowledge and experience are unparalleled in Rhode Island.
About Lifespan
Lifespan is a five-partner not-for-profit health system based in Providence, R.I. that serves residents from across southern New England. Formed in 1994, Lifespan includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s Hospital; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children.
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