Vice President for Cancer Services and Cancer Center Director

• Vice President for Cancer Services and Cancer Center Director

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Vice President for Cancer Services and Cancer Center Director

October 28, 2024

Stony Brook Medicine seeks a highly collaborative and visionary physician leader to serve as its next Vice President for Cancer Services and Kavita and Lalit Bahl Endowed Cancer Center Director (Director). This position will also serve as Vice Dean for Cancer for the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. This position is an extraordinary opportunity for a physician executive to lead the cancer program into the future and towards NCI designation. This leader will advance multidisciplinary cancer clinical care, and lead cutting-edge basic, translational, and clinical research, as well as community outreach and engagement. The Director will also oversee education and the provision of the highest quality clinical care to the local and regional community.

Stony Brook Cancer Center (SBCC) is Suffolk County’s cancer care leader with more than 3,000 new patients and 70,000 outpatient visits annually. The Cancer Center includes over 450 FTEs and the current NIH funding of SBCC members exceeds $30 million. The SBCC mission is to reduce the suffering from cancer by providing world-class multidisciplinary care close to home, conducting innovative research, educating patients and healthcare professionals and partnering with the community to reach underserved populations.

The Renaissance School of Medicine is a public medical school and part of Stony Brook University, a designated flagship institution of the State University of New York system and one of 62 members of the Association of American Universities – the by invitation-only organization of the best research universities in North America. The School of Medicine is one of five health sciences schools within the overarching Stony Brook Medicine organization, which is also home to 628-bed Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, and multiple outpatient care sites.

The Director of the SBCC will shape the future of Cancer Medicine at Stony Brook Medicine through visionary leadership. The leader will enhance research through team-based science, clinical trials, and advancing the Center's extramural funding. The Director will have a history of successful leadership experience within a leading cancer program. This leader will have a proven record of building integrated and successful multidisciplinary disease-based programs and leading a broad research portfolio. Applicants must hold an MD or MD/PhD (or equivalent degree), have current board certification within an oncology discipline and have or be eligible to obtain a New York medical license. The Director will possess academic accomplishments that merit appointment at the rank of Professor or higher at the Renaissance School of Medicine.

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