Durham, N.C.-based Duke University School of Medicine has named Georgia Beasley, MD, chief of the division of surgical oncology in its department of surgery.
Dr. Beasley has served as section chief of melanoma surgery at Duke since 2022 and as co-director of the Duke Cancer Institute’s melanoma and advanced skin cancers disease group since 2019, according to a Nov. 11 news release.
She succeeds Dan Blazer III, MD, who began serving as interim chief in September 2025 after Peter Allen, MD, stepped down as chief to become chair of the department of surgery.
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