On Jan. 21, 2009, the Knight Cancer Institute announced the recruitment of lung oncology expert Alan Sandler, M.D., chief of hematology/medical oncology to the Institute’s staff.

Sandler was previously medical director of thoracic oncology at Vanderbilt University.

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