David Hohn, MD, former president and CEO of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, died Oct. 30. He was 84.
Dr. Hohn led Roswell Park from 1997 to 2007 after serving as vice president for patient care at Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, according to a Nov. 4 news release from Roswell Park.
During his tenure, Roswell Park added more than 160 senior faculty members, clinicians and scientists, completed a $250 million campus redesign and built the $74 million Center for Genetics & Pharmacology. Dr. Hohn also led the cancer center’s transition from a division of the New York State Department of Health to an independent public benefit corporation in 1999.
After retiring in 2007, Dr. Hohn was named president emeritus and helped launch a cellular therapy manufacturing facility at Roswell Park in 2010.
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