- On March 5, the Broadway Buzz reported that a new play by Halley Feiffer will premiere at the off-Broadway MCC Theatre at the Lucille Lortel Theatrein August 2016. Its title is a mouthful: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City.
- Nobel laureate, outgoing director of the National Cancer Institute, and former MSK President, Dr. Harold Varmus, will be returning to NYC’s Upper East Side to take a position at Weill Cornell Medical College as the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine. He will also join the New York Genome Center as a Senior Associate Core Member.
- In his March 11 State of the County Address, Nassau County Executive, Edward Mangano, announced plans for a new MSK outpatient treatment facility to be built on Long Island, and projected to open in 2018.
- In early March, the Associates Committee of the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, hosted their annual Bunny Hop, a child-focused fundraiser which this year featured about 50 giant carrots among the kid-friendly décor and entertainment.
- In a March 11 company news release, it was announced that MSK’s Urgent Care Center will soon be adopting the Advantages patient flow system to help improve the patient experience. This Versus system has already been successfully implemented at a couple of MSK’s outpatient treatment facilities.