Patricio Polanco, Surgeon-in-Chief at Atrium Health Levine Cancer, Division Chief of Surgical Oncology, and inaugural Richard White Jr. Endowed Professor of Surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Excited to share that I will be joining Atrium Health and Advocate Health as Division Chief of Surgical Oncology, inaugural Richard White Jr. Endowed Professor of Surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Surgeon-in-Chief, Atrium Health Levine Cancer in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I will also have the privilege to serve in the Scientific Committee of IRCAD North America.
Thankful to Brent Matthews, Ruben Mesa and Eugene Woods for their trust and support.
I welcome the challenges and opportunities ahead: to build at scale, expand access to complex cancer care, and integrate surgery, innovation, technology, and research across a multistate system.
Eternally grateful for the mentors, colleagues, and trainees who shaped this journey.
Atrium-Advocate Health by the numbers:
- #3 largest nonprofit health system in the US
- 172K teammates, 35K+ physicians
- 42K nurses
- 6M patients/year
- >70 hospitals, 1K+ points of care
- $36B revenue, $6B+ community benefit
Atrium Health Levine Cancer by the numbers:
- Largest cancer program in the Carolinas, bringing together Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute and Atrium Health Wake Forest NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
- 30 sites (Charlotte + Winston-Salem)
- 35K new cancer patients/year
- 3,400 teammates | 400+ providers
- 500+ cancer clinical trials
Wake Forest School of Medicine Charlotte Campus + IRCAD North America:
- First 4-year medical school in Charlotte, NC
- Anchor of the $1.5B ‘Pearl’ innovation district in Charlotte
- 800K+ sq ft academic + research campus
- IRCAD-NA part of IRCAD worldwide, one of the largest and most advanced RandD and simulation/experiential training networks in the world.”
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