Anesthesiologist and longtime clinical staff leader Julia Faller, MD, promoted to CMO
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is announcing its latest slate of physician promotions, including naming Julia Faller, DO, as Chief Medical Officer.
Most recently serving in the role of Chief of Perioperative Services, Dr. Faller joined Roswell Park in 2009 in a faculty role with the Department of Anesthesia, and served as Medical Director, then Chief of Perioperative Services beginning in 2015. She received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and master’s degree from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed anesthesiology training with the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
“Dr. Faller has demonstrated great incisiveness and creativity across many projects and initiatives,” says Roswell Park President, CEO, and M&T Bank Presidential Chair in Leadership Candace S. Johnson, PhD. “Her close and effective collaboration with colleagues from every department and discipline have positioned her to be an outstanding leader and innovator.”
Dr. Faller, who led Roswell Park’s Medical Staff as President from 2019-2022, succeeds surgical oncologist Boris Kuvshinoff II, MD, FACS, who retired following a 22-year tenure with Roswell Park, the last nine as Chief Medical Officer, and now holds the title Professor Emeritus in the Department of Surgical Oncology.
Additionally, four Roswell Park staff physicians – including three newer recruits to the cancer center – have earned the role of chief in their respective clinical departments:
Aleodor “Doru” Andea, MD, MBA, has been named Chief of Dermatopathology and Director of Molecular Dermatopathology. Previously with the University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Dr. Andea served in an academic role as well as Director of its Dermatopathology Fellowship. A subspeciality, dermatopathology studies skin disease at the microscopic and…
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