STAT April 15, 2024
Anne Klibanski on the Dana-Farber split
Mass General Brigham didn’t foresee the breakup with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. But there won’t be any texts begging Dana-Farber to come back. The nonprofit hospital system is getting over it, Mass General Brigham CEO Anne Klibanski told me last week.
Here’s how she responded when I told her it seemed like there was no love lost: “There are clinical and research care teams that have worked together for decades. These are very powerful clinical relationships. The announcement came out from the Farber. This was a Farber business decision to build their own medical oncology hospital. That was their announcement. The people, the relationships, the care — that’s gone on for decades. So all the...