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University of Louisville selects cancer center director
Jason Chesney, MD, PhD, has been selected as the next director of University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center, pending approval by university trustees.
Chesney will serve as acting director until the board votes on his appointment in mid-May. He succeeds Donald Miller, MD, PhD, who served as center director since 1999.
“We had an outstanding pool of candidates from throughout the nation,” Gregory C. Postel, MD, the university’s interim president, said in a press release. “Jason is the right person at the right time for the James Graham Brown Cancer Center. Jason’s full understanding of how interwoven research is to the delivery of innovative patient care will help us remain leaders in pioneering new and better treatments for people who suffer from cancer.”
Chesney — who joined University of Louisville in 2003 — also will serve as associate vice president for health affairs. He will continue to hold the Brinkley endowed chair in lung cancer research.
“At the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, we have the chance to have a major impact on the welfare of our region’s population through an expansion in our clinical enterprise, outreach program, [and] basic and clinical research and education programs,” Chesney said in the release. “I am humbled that I will have the opportunity to see to it that we take advantage of it.”