New Faces and New Jobs

Date: June 1, 2004

After an intensive national search, Robert A. Brodsky, M.D., was selected to head the Division of Hematology in the Department of Medicine. Brodsky will continue to work closely with the Kimmel Cancer Center and plans to expand the already strong relationship between the Division of Hematology and the Cancer Center’s medical oncology and hematologic malignancies programs.

Charles Rudin, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Kimmel Cancer Center as an associate professor of oncology in the Division of Medical Oncology. Rudin was recently recruited from the University of Chicago after a national search. He will lead the lung cancer therapeutics program.

Kathy Carducci, M.S., R.N., O.C.N., has been appointed as cancer information specialist, a newly created position for the Kimmel Cancer Center. Carducci will work closely with the New Patient Referral Office to develop and implement systems to provide information to physicians, nurses, patients, family members and the general public about cancer clinical trials.

Kristin Weber, M.D., has joined the faculty as an associate professor of orthopedic surgery and oncology and chief of the Division of Orthopedic Oncology. She comes here from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.