Joseph Califano, MD, has been named director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.
Dr. Califano, an otolaryngologist, currently serves as physician-in-chief at Moores, according to a Nov. 14 news release from the health system. He also serves as director of the Hanna and Mark Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center and co-leader of the Structural and Functional Genomics Program.
Prior to joining UC San Diego Health in 2015, Dr. Califano was a professor in the otolaryngology department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.