Chair, Ahn Cancer Institute
CurrentDr. Bartlett leads Allegheny Health Network’s Cancer Institute, which completed a significant growth strategy in May 2020 with the opening of an $80 million Academic Center on the Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) campus. The academic center will be complimented by the launch of a new state-of-the-art cancer genomics lab and precision medicine and immunotherapy program at the hospital.The network’s investment in the cancer program also includes five regional comprehensive cancer centers in Monroeville, Butler County, and Beaver County, Erie and Hempfield Township. The expansion, supported by Highmark Health’s $300 million commitment to the program, has greatly enhanced and expanded AHN’s leading cancer-treatment capabilities across western Pennsylvania.Dr. Bartlett leads AHN’s unique partnership with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, which has greatly enhanced and streamlined patient access to new therapies being explored in cancer clinical trials as well as to consultations and second opinions from Hopkins’ team of leading cancer specialists.He also oversees a multidisciplinary team of more than 200 physicians and 500 advanced-practice oncology professionals. Clinicians within the Institute annually deliver more than 150,000 cancer treatments to more than 11,000 patients at 24 clinical sites across western Pennsylvania. Over the last two years, the Institute has hired more than 200 additional caregivers, including physicians, nurses and others, to manage increasing patient volumes, and to staff the network’s newly opened cancer facilities and expanded clinics. His role will also include overseeing the Network’s robust clinical trials and laboratory research programs in oncology.
