Prominent medical center CEO resigns amid conflict of interest claims

TAMPA — Globally known cancer physician and health care executive Dr. Alan List has resigned as CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center. His departure is one of several related to what the prominent facility, in a statement, calls “violations of conflict of interest rules through their work in China.”

Moffitt Cancer Center Director Thomas Sellers and four additional researchers also resigned, the release adds. Moffitt board chairman Timothy Adams will assume overall operational responsibilities while a national CEO search is underway.