Stephen D. Nimer MD

Stephen D. Nimer, M.D., one of the world’s premier leukemia and stem cell transplant researchers and clinicians, has been named the new director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Nimer, the Alfred P. Sloan Chair in Cancer Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will assume the key Miller School and UHealth-University of Miami Health System post this spring, bringing 30 years of pioneering research and clinical experience and an unquenchable passion for improving the lives of patients with cancer, and their families.

“The focus will not be solely on taking care of the cancer, it will be on taking care of the patient,” said Nimer, whose patient-centered philosophy has won him as much acclaim as his clinical and laboratory accomplishments. “That means trying to understand as fully as possible each patient’s cancer – the biology driving the cancer, and the impact of the cancer on the patient’s life – in order to develop a personalized therapeutic approach suited to each individual.”