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Article: President of troubled Dana-Farber steps down
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1995
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Christopher T. Walsh resigned abruptly yesterday as president of
the beleaguered Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in the latest twist in
a seven-month saga of institutional turmoil.
Since last spring, Walsh and his management team have struggled to
deal with the revelation that two Dana-Farber breast cancer patients
received massive overdoses of chemotherapy last November. The
overdoses, which resulted in the death of Globe health columnist
Betsy A. Lehman and serious heart damage in a second, unidentified
patient, opened a door on clinical and administrative failings that
the institute has openly acknowledged.
Walsh's successor to lead Dana-Farber is expected to be Dr. David
G. Nathan, the ...