Craig Thompson, MD, President and CEO of MSK, makes the list of one of the Top 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders of 2016. The advances in cancer treatment and research has brought Dr. Thompson and MSK to the forefront of medical research and leadership. According to Thompson, “We’re really at a pivotal time when we can deliver on all the basic research and translational research from the past 25 years” leading to targeted treatments for individual tumors. “This isn’t science fiction. We’re doing it every day.”

Becker’s Hospital Review asked Craig to discuss their 7 questions about hospital leadership and management.

Craig Thompson was also the keynote speaker at the March 31st Lasker Lessons in Leadership Lecture in Bethesda, MD. He discussed the leadership strategies and the difference between leadership and management.

View the lecture here: Lasker Lessons in Leadership: Leadership in Medicine/Public Health

Joan Massagué, PhD, Director, Sloan Kettering Institute, was recently recognized as part of the 2016 class of Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy. He joins José Baselga, MD, PhD, Physician in Chief and Chief Medical Officer of Memorial Hospital, who was inducted in 2014 to the AACR Academy. 

Researchers at MSK and WCMC suggest that having the right balance of gut microbia affects the immune system in such a way that it reduces the amount of brain damage after a stroke. The Eric Pamer Lab along with the lab of Josef Anrather, use a mouse model to demonstrate that altering the intestinal flora changed the immune system, which subsequently impacted how the brain responded to stroke.