New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has tapped Che-Kai Tsao, MD, to serve as system chief of solid tumor oncology and medical director of the Lake Success, N.Y.-based RJ Zuckerberg Cancer Center.
Dr. Tsao will also serve as director of the system’s medical oncology prostate cancer program, according to an Aug. 4 LinkedIn post from Richard Barakat, MD, physician-in-chief and executive director of the Northwell Cancer Institute.
Dr. Tsao has previously served as medical director of New York City-based Mount Sinai Queens’ quality committee and physician liaison for the Mount Sinai Cancer Network, as well as medical director of the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Institute’s Ruttenberg Treatment Center and prostate oncology program.
Northwell Health also recently appointed Samir Taneja, MD, as the system chair of urology and chair of the Smith Institute for Urology, with whom Dr. Tsao will work closely, the post said.
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