Allan Tsung, MD, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Tsung will assume his new role June 27th. He succeeds Reid Adams, MD, Claude A. Jessup Professor of Surgery, who has served in this role since 2019 while also assuming the permanent leadership role of Chief Medical Officer for the UVA Medical Center in August of 2021. 

Allan Tsung comes to UVA from The Ohio State University College of Medicine, where he serves as Professor and Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery. He is also Director of the Microscopy Shared Facility and Co-Director of the Gastrointestinal Clinical Trials portfolio at the Ohio State James Comprehensive Cancer Center.