Proton therapy center chain ProCure Treatment Centers Inc. named Dr. Eugen B. Hug its new chief medical officer on Tuesday.
Hug, 51, will oversee medical operations at ProCure's centers. The privately held, for-profit company, headquartered in New York City, has a four-room center in Oklahoma City and another in Warrenville, a suburb of Chicago.
A New Jersey center is expected to open next year. Others centers in Washington State, Florida and Michigan are in development.
Before joining ProCure, Hug served as director of the Center for Proton Therapy at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switerzland's largest science and engineering researcher center, in Villigen. Since the mid-1980s, the PSI has treated eye cancers with protons. In the 1996, it installed a new facility to treat deep-seated tumors with protons. And in 2007, the center began treating patients with a new compact cyclotron.
Hug also served as professor and chair of proton-radiotherapy at the University of Zurich, ProCure said.
He has held staff positions with Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory in Boston and Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif. And he has published more than 140 abstracts and papers.
"We are very pleased to bring a physician with Dr. Hug's exceptional credentials and experience to ProCure," said Hadley Ford, the company's CEO, in a statement.
