Mesothelioma Specialist David Sugarbaker Leaving Boston

Mesothelioma pioneer David Sugarbaker, M.D., is taking his surgical and administrative expertise to Texas, where he hopes to create a bigger and even better platform to help patients with asbestos cancer. Sugarbaker told his staff last week at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston that he has become director of the upcoming Texas Lung Institute at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Although Baylor has not officially announced the hiring yet, Sugarbaker has begun implementing his plan to create a Mesothelioma Specialty Center that will be second to none, including his world-renowned practice in Boston. "The goal is to take everything we've done with mesothelioma and apply it on a larger scale now," Sugarbaker told Asbestos.com in an interview Wednesday. "What we build in Texas, there will be nothing else like it in the world." His move will not become official until May 1, but he expects the clinical portion of the new Lung Institute to begin serving patients as early as July. There also will be a Research Institute with talented scientists and laboratories dedicated to finding a cure for mesothelioma. "To me, this was such a great opportunity. A dream job for me," he said. "It's not career-changing. It's just changing to a bigger stadium to work in. My commitment to patients as a caretaker, as a doctor, will be as strong, or stronger, than ever." Bringing a Wealth of Cancer Knowledge to Texas Sugarbaker also will be chief of thoracic surgery, a title he also...
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