Oncology

William Dahut, MD, has been named chief scientific officer for the American Cancer Society. He will start May 16. 

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital named J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD, scientific director and executive vice president, it said in an email to Becker's April 18.

Atlanta-based Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University opened the first immediate cancer care center in Georgia on April 18, it said in an email to Becker's.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center named Eileen Danaher Hacker, PhD, the chair of its nursing department, it said in an email to Becker's April 15. 

Ochsner Cancer Center in Baton Rouge, La., is planning on continuing its $10 million expansion, it said April 13. 

Here are four cancer-related partnerships formed or expanded since April 1, starting with the most recent:

Penn Medicine has appointed Robert Vonderheide, MD, to a second five-year term as director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit recently opened the Karmanos Cancer Institute at the Toledo Clinic Cancer Center in Maumee, Ohio, it said in an email to Becker's April 12.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System and Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare on April 12 said they have received approval to build the state's first proton beam therapy center. 

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute named Ian Matthew-Clayton vice president and chief inclusion, diversity and equity officer, effective April 25.