Malcolm Moore will leave his post as president of the B.C. Cancer Agency next month, well before the end of his sole term in office.
Moore’s decision to leave was “based on personal or family needs,” Carl Roy, president and CEO of the Provincial Health Services Authority, told staff at the cancer agency in a notice sent out Tuesday morning. The cancer agency did not meet a request for an interview with Moore, nor did it respond to specific questions about his resignation. The provincial health ministry did not meet a request for comment.
Before Moore stepped into the job, scientists and clinicians had cited concerns about poor staff morale at the agency, long patient wait times and inadequate government funding. Asked at the time about those controversies, Moore said he was interested in whether the problems were real and whether there were reasonable solutions. He said he thought conditions were ripe for the agency to move forward.