New York City-based Bristol-Myers Squibb Company appointed Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., MD, executive vice president and chief scientific officer, effective March 16, 2017.
Here are four things to know:
1. Dr. Lynch served as chairman and CEO of Boston-based Massachusetts General Physicians Organization since July 2015.
2. He also serves on Bristol-Myers Squibb's board of directors, but he will step down, effective March 15, 2017.
3. Previously, he served as director of New Haven, Conn.-based Yale Cancer Center and was the Richard and Jonathan Sackler Professor of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.
4. He succeeds Francis Cuss, MD, who is retiring.