DETROIT: Bepler named CEO at Karmanos Cancer Institute

Karmanos Cancer Institute, February 1, 2010

Gerold Bepler, MD, has been named president/CEO of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. Bepler will also serve as principal investigator of Karmanos' National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant; associate dean, Cancer Programs, Wayne State University School of Medicine; director, Cancer Institute, WSU School of Medicine; and chair of the soon-to-be-created Department of Oncology of the WSU School of Medicine. Bepler most recently was director of the Comprehensive Lung Cancer Research Center; department chair of Thoracic Oncology; and program leader of the Lung Cancer Program at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. He also served as professor of Medicine and Oncology at the University of South Florida.