Karmanos Announces Bepler as CEO
After a 10-month nationwide search, Gerold Bepler, MD, PhD, has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. A thoracic oncologist, Dr. Bepler began his new position February 1.
In addition to his chief administrative duties, Dr. Bepler will also serve as principal investigator of Karmanos’ National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant; associate dean, Cancer Programs, Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSU SOM); director, Cancer Institute, WSU School of Medicine; and chair of the soon to be created Department of Oncology of the WSU School of Medicine.
Dr. Bepler most recently was director of the Comprehensive Lung Cancer Research Center; department chair of Thoracic Oncology; and program leader of the Lung Cancer Program at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. He also served as professor of Medicine and Oncology at the University of South Florida.
More