Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has named Seth Karp, MD, and Gavin Dunn, MD, PhD, to leadership positions.
Dr. Karp was appointed chair of surgery and Dr. Dunn was appointed neurosurgeon-in-chief, according to an Oct. 9 news release from Dana-Farber.
Dr. Karp serves as chair of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He previously served as chair of the section of surgical sciences and system surgeon-in-chief at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center; the H. William Scott Jr. Chair in Surgery and professor of surgery, biomedical ethics and society, and anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; and director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center.
Dr. Dunn is the inaugural chair of a new department of neurosurgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. He previously served as director of the Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital.
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