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Guilherme H. C. Cantuaria, M.D., Ph.D. Appointed Medical Director

of National Cancer Institute (NCI) Program at Northside Hospital

 

Northside Hospital is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Guilherme Cantuaria as Medical Director and Principal Investigator for the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP). In April of last year, Northside Hospital was among 14 new sites chosen by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to join a national network of community cancer centers offering expanded research opportunities and state-of-the-art cancer care. Northside was the only new hospital added in the Southeastern United States.

 

“Being chosen by the NCI to be a part of this national network is a true testament to the reputation and strengths of our Program in the Southeast, and in the United States,” said Bob Quattrocchi, President and CEO of Northside Hospital. “For more than a decade, Northside’s Cancer Care Program has been leading the way in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of women’s oncology, leukemia and other blood diseases, prostate cancer and others.”

 

The NCCCP Medical Directorship and Principal Investigator role is a vital component to the NCCCP Program. Cantuaria will have oversight of cancer program activities, including clinical management, community outreach and disparities, clinical trials, information technology, biospecimen initiatives, quality of patient care, and survivorship and palliative care. As a board certified gynecologic oncologist with over ten years of experience in the specialty, Cantauria has held a variety of leadership positions and served as a Principal Investigator for Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG).

 

“I am excited and honored to have been chosen by the Hospital for this most important role,” said Cantuaria. “Northside Hospital’s Cancer Care Program already has an excellent reputation among the community, with physicians and in the healthcare industry as a whole. The Hospital’s participation in the NCCCP network, affords the hospital, physicians and patients greater access to leading-edge cancer care services (from prevention, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship).”

 

Distinguishing features of Northside’s Cancer Care Program include:

 

 

The NCCCP Program studies ways for more patients to have access to the latest, evidence-based care close to where they live. For a variety of reasons, many cancer patients cannot commute to major academic medical centers for treatment. In fact, 85 percent of patients are diagnosed, and receive at least their first course of treatment, at a community hospital.

 

NCCCP Centers are addressing ways to reduce healthcare disparities, improve access to clinical trials, improve overall quality of care, promote an infrastructure to collect high-quality biospecimens such as blood and tissue samples for research, and link with national computer networks that support research. The Centers also work to improve survivorship, palliative care services, and patient advocacy.

 

For more information regarding NCCCP,

Participating NCCCP Physicians

Northside's Cancer Care Program.

A complete list of all sites in the network, visit ncccp.cancer.gov.