deputy director of the Yale Cancer Center
Dr. Edward Chu, a faculty member at the Yale Cancer Center since 1996, has been named the center's deputy director.
Chu, whose appointment was effective Jan. 1, succeeds Dr. José Costa, who was the center's deputy director for 10 years.
"I am extremely proud to appoint Ed Chu to the position of deputy director at Yale Cancer Center," said Dr. Richard Edelson, the center's director. "Ed's leadership and continued commitment to the success of the center have shined over the last several years as he led our team of medical oncologists through a period of extensive expansion and change. His experience and dedication will be a tremendous asset as Yale Cancer Center continues to grow and enters a new phase of expansion with the opening of the new clinical facility in 2009."
Chu is professor of medicine and pharmacology at the Yale School of Medicine and chief of medical oncology at the Yale Cancer Center. In his new role, Chu will continue to lead the Section of Medical Oncology and will also direct the clinical research initiatives for the center.
He is the author of the "Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual," which provides a comprehensive review of all major cancer drugs and drug treatment regimens currently used in daily clinical practice by medical oncologists and health care professionals. The manual, now in its seventh edition, is recognized as a leading publication in the cancer field. Chu is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Colorectal Cancer, and is chair of the International Colorectal Congress, an international meeting held yearly that brings together leaders in oncology from the United States, Europe and Asia and focuses on the latest developments in the management and treatment of colorectal cancer.
"While it is exciting to have the opportunity to promote Ed Chu into a new position of leadership, I am tremendously grateful for José Costa's decade of devotion to Yale Cancer Center," Edelson added.
In addition to his current appointments as professor of pathology and internal medicine, vice chair of the Department of Pathology at the School of Medicine, and director of anatomic pathology in the department, Costa will remain an active member of the Yale Cancer Center.
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