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Alex Khariton

Alex Khariton

Chief Operating Officer at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Jefferson Health

Mr. Khariton is the COO of SKCCC and an Adjunct Professor at the Jefferson College of Health Professions. He has been with Jefferson since 2012.

Mr. Khariton’s responsibilities include but are not limited to developing and implementing service line strategy for Jefferson Health, in addition to financial and operational oversite of all enterprise oncology services at the NCI-designated comprehensive SKCCC. This includes the integration of existing services across the enterprise and development of new patient services, as well as management of physician practice and hospital operations for the Medical, Radiation and Surgical Oncology Departments, research operations and the clinical trial office.

Mr. Khariton Chairs the Radiation Safety Committee for the institution and serves as the hospital representative for the PA State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Additionally, Mr. Khariton serves as a member of the Patient Support Advisory Council for the American Cancer Society (ACS), member of the Code Utilization and Application Committee for the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), formal board member of the Society of Radiation Oncology Administrators, and participated in the ASCO/COA Certification Pilot Team. He earned his MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University and is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business Leadership Development Program.

Thomas Jefferson University (TJU)/Jefferson Health (JH) is a comprehensive health sciences university providing experiential post-graduate, graduate, and undergraduate education in medicine, allied health sciences and professions, architecture, business, design, fashion, engineering, and textiles with a combined faculty of over 3,400 and enrollment of over 7,800 students across 13 health professions colleges.

Jefferson’s health delivery system among the top 15 not-for-profit health systems in the U.S. with 32 hospitals and more than 700 sites of care, which will increase patient access to high-quality and affordable care, clinical research and health plan offerings while addressing health inequities for urban and rural communities in Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey.

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