In June 2021, clinician and researcher, Joseph A. Sparano, MD, joined The Tisch Cancer Institute as Deputy Director, where he will continue to lead clinical trials and improve treatments for breast cancer and cancers associated with HIV infection, as he has done throughout his distinguished 33-year career. Dr. Sparano was also named Chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology for the Mount Sinai Health System, and the Ezra Greenspan MD Professor in Clinical Cancer Therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.