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UT Southwestern names cancer center director
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Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, has been appointed director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Arteaga — whose appointment takes effect Sept. 1 — has been on the faculty at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center since 1989. He most recently has served as director of the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies and the breast cancer program, associate director for translational and clinical research, and professor of medicine and cancer biology.
“Dr. Arteaga brings a wealth of experience to this leadership role that will help further integrate UT Southwestern’s advances in multidisciplinary cancer care and clinical/translational investigation across departmental boundaries,” J. Gregory Fitz, MD, executive vice president for academic affairs, and provost and dean of UT Southwestern Medical School, said in a press release. “Such integration is fundamental to our commitment to our patients to advance the treatment and prevention of cancer through innovative therapies, leading-edge clinical trials and the latest technology.”
Arteaga, a medical oncologist who specializes in breast cancer, also will serve as associate dean for the oncology program at UT Southwestern Medical School. He will hold the Lisa K. Simmons distinguished chair in comprehensive oncology at UT Southwestern.
“I was attracted by the large cancer community served by UT Southwestern, the commitment of the institution to the growth of cancer medicine, as well as the superb quality of research at the institution, which has been a basic science powerhouse for decades,” Arteaga said in the release. “My vision is for UT Southwestern to become one of the top institutions for conducting translational cancer medicine in the country, as well as to ease the burden of cancer at UT Southwestern’s Simmons’ catchment area through exceptional patient care, transdisciplinary research, discovery, education, partnership and collaboration.”