Rossi to direct Scripps proton center

Dr. Carl J. Rossi Jr. has joined Scripps Clinic Medical Group as medical director of the Scripps Proton Therapy Center.
Before joining Scripps, Rossi spent the past 20 years as chief of genito-urinary and lymphoma radiation oncology services at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), where he treated more than 9,000 prostate cancer patients with proton therapy.

For the past 19 years, Rossi also served as facility director of Loma Linda University Radiation Medicine in Ridgecrest, Calif. He has been an associate professor of radiation oncology at LLUMC for the past decade.
SCMG will oversee medical services at Scripps Proton Therapy Center, and Scripps Health will provide its clinical management services