# Ruben Mesa

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## TL;DR

Physician who is Executive Director of the NCI-designated Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center in Winston-Salem and President of its cancer service line.

## Summary

Ruben Mesa is Executive Director of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centre in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and President of the Cancer Service Line. The cancer centre's own website introduces him under the heading 'Meet Dr. Ruben Mesa, Our New Cancer Center Director', asking readers to welcome him as the new Executive Director of the NCI-designated centre. The page did not give an appointment date or further biographical detail.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; clinician-scientist; comprehensive-cancer-centre
- Role: Executive Director, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, and President of the Cancer Service Line
- Specialisms: Haematology and oncology; Cancer centre leadership; Academic medicine

## Sources

- Source: Wake Forest Baptist cancer centre page introducing the director: https://www.wakehealth.edu/cancer

## Connected records

- institutions: [Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/wake-forest-cancer/)
- journals: [Cancer medicine](https://onco.cc/journals/cancer-medicine/), [Cancers](https://onco.cc/journals/cancers-mdpi/), [The Lancet Haematology](https://onco.cc/journals/lancet-haematology/)

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