Local News in Brief : Irvine : Cancer Researcher Gets New Post at UC Irvine

Cancer researcher Dr. Philip DiSaia has been named to a new position at UC Irvine, associate vice chancellor of health sciences.

DiSaia, a gynecologist, will report to Dr. Edward Quilligan, dean of UCI’s College of Medicine and vice chancellor of health sciences. He will handle patient care issues at the medical center and will be responsible for strategic planning, marketing and fund raising at the center and the UCI College of Medicine, campus officials said.

DiSaia started his new job this week.

In his new role, DiSaia will also direct the school’s clinical practice, the UCI Medical Group.

DiSaia will continue as chairman of the medical school’s obstetrics and gynecology department and will remain as director of the UCI Cancer Center until a search for that position is completed.

A resident of North Tustin, DiSaia received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. His internship and residency was at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. He served a two-year fellowship in gynecological oncology at the University of Texas at Houston’s M.D. Anderson Hospital Tumor Institute.

DiSaia has done research in immunology.