Christine M. Lovly, Member Board of Directors at the American Association for Cancer Research and Division Chief of Thoracic Medical Oncology at City of Hope shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I am excited to share a new chapter – As of January 1, 2026, I have had the honor of joining the City of Hope family to serve as the Division Chief for Thoracic Medical Oncology, becoming part of a growing national system that includes an extensive network of clinical care locations across southern California as well as in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL and Phoenix, AZ. City of Hope’s affiliated group of organizations also includes TGen – Part of City of Hope and AccessHope.
I am thrilled to join this extraordinary community and to contribute to City of Hope’s mission to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer through cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art diagnostics, expanded access, and, most importantly, compassionate care. Guided by visionary leadership – including President of City of Hope National Medical Center and Chief Physician Executive Marcel van den Brink, CSO and Cancer Center Director John Carpten, and Vice Physician-in-Chief and System Director of the Clinical Trials Office Ed Kim – and alongside an exceptional team of lung cancer clinicians and researchers, I look forward to expanding access to outstanding lung cancer care across the City of Hope catchment area. With approximately 86 million people living within 90 minutes of a City of Hope site, the opportunity to make a meaningful impact is profound.
I am particularly excited to engage the City of Hope national clinical trials model, spearheaded by Ed Kim, to extend the reach of innovative therapies to patients across diverse communities. I also look forward to partnering with Jeff Trent and the talented teams at TGen to bring multi-omic technologies further into the clinic and to accelerate discovery efforts that will continue to advance lung cancer care.
I am deeply grateful to my colleagues and friends at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the incredible ~20 years I spent in Nashville, from the time I finished medical school through this most recent chapter. I am especially thankful to the patients and families who entrusted me with their care and shared some of life’s most vulnerable moments with me.
I hold all of them in my heart as I look forward to now expanding my community at City of Hope and within southern California. No matter where we are, we share a common purpose: to deliver compassionate care and drive innovative research that brings meaningful and lasting progress in our collective fight against cancer.”
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