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New UCHealth oncologist Mark Hancock, MD, has never met a challenge that he didn\u2019t embrace with gusto. From volunteering for Doctors Without Borders in Malawi, Africa before starting his fellowship to moving his wife and four daughters to a suburb outside of Paris, France to work on a logistics business venture with his father-in-law after more than a decade practicing medicine, it seems Hancock always opts for the road less traveled.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s more than simply meeting a challenge that motivates Hancock. He likes to be where the action is. That\u2019s why he first chose to go into oncology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got into the later phases of my internal medicine training, I was doing research with one of the attendings and it became clear that a lot of things were about to change in the treatment of oncology and it looked really cool. I wanted to be a part of that,\u201d recalled Hancock.<\/p>\n

Chance meeting, new challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n

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UCHealth oncologist Mark Hancock, MD, doesn\u2019t like to take the easy way out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hancock\u2019s journey to UCHealth is one that he came across recently by serendipity. \u00a0He had given his notice as the medical director at St. Mary\u2019s Hospital in Grand Junction, where he commuted to from Denver for eight years. He was deciding between a job in Austin, Texas and one in Knoxville, Tenn., when he ran into Tom Purcell, MD, executive medical director of cancer services for University of Colorado Hospital and associate director for clinical services for the University of Colorado Cancer Center.<\/p>\n

Purcell, who was also recently named chief medical officer of the new, soon-to-be-built UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital<\/a>, chatted about career options with Hancock, who mentioned that he\u2019d prefer to stay in Denver. Purcell told him he could help him out with that. And he did.<\/p>\n

Purcell had met Hancock in 2012 during the latter\u2019s time as director of the cancer center at St. Mary\u2019s Hospital. \u201cI was impressed with his ability to deliver high-quality cancer care in the community setting,\u201d said Purcell. \u201cI thought he would be a great fit for our comprehensive care model. I\u2019m excited that he has chosen to practice oncology in one of our affiliated community sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas to Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Lubbock, Texas, Hancock says he wanted to go into medicine from a young age. He was influenced in part by his pediatrician as well as the television show \u201cM*A*S*H.\u201d But the person who inspired Hancock the most was his grandfather, a self-made man who grew up during the Great Depression and ended up building a large manufacturing company based on the technology patents he developed as a dry land farmer in West Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe really made a lot of his life and helped a lot of people on the way. He was always very focused on making the most of a situation and doing the right thing. He was quite a man,\u201d said Hancock.<\/p>\n

After Hancock\u2019s last year of residency at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, he was set to start his fellowship, but decided to volunteer with Doctors Without Borders<\/a> after learning about it from a former patient.<\/p>\n

Despite scant experience, he became the medical director for two refugee camps that served about 80,000 refugees from Mozambique in the Chikwawa district of Malawi in southeast Africa. Since most of the volunteers from Doctors Without Borders (officially known as M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res, or MSF) spoke French, Hancock moved to France for six months prior to his trip to Malawi in order to better communicate with the other MSF volunteers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the meetings were in French and I wanted to be part of it,\u201d Hancock explained.<\/p>\n

In Malawi he treated mostly children, for things like worms, infections, cholera, leprosy and severe malnutrition. \u201cIt gave me a good perspective on what\u2019s important about life and health,\u201d Hancock said of his experience.<\/p>\n

Business sense<\/strong><\/p>\n

He then completed his fellowship and did a brief stint in Montana before landing at the Rocky Mountain Cancer Center in Denver, where he worked for three years before taking on yet another challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the other doctors and I, we were the younger guys, and we felt we needed to spread our wings so we went out and started our own practice,\u201d said Hancock.<\/p>\n

He and the other \u201cyounger guy\u201d managed Mile High Oncology for about six years before selling it to Centura. During a three-year term with Centura to help transition the practice, Hancock earned an executive MBA at the University of Denver to become more marketable when he went back out to look for a job.<\/p>\n

Instead of heading back into medicine, however, Hancock took advantage of an opportunity to live overseas and put what he learned in his MBA program, as well as his French, to good use. He and his wife and four daughters moved to Courgent, a small rural village an hour west of Paris, to help his father-in-law expand a supply chain logistics business into France and Belgium.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought it would be a great idea to take advantage of this little interlude and take the kids to Europe,\u201d said Hancock. They planned to live there two years but a setback with the company after a year changed their plans and they returned to the U.S.<\/p>\n

That led to the opportunity with St. Mary\u2019s that was too good to pass up. It was a \u201ctemporary\u201d job that lasted eight years.<\/p>\n

Mind over matter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not all of Hancock\u2019s challenges were ones he chose. Between his first and second year of medical school, Hancock and his dad were sailing a Hobie Cat sailboat into an inlet on Cedar Creek Lake in East Texas when the mast got too close to power lines. \u201cI was holding onto the front forestay, which is the cable that holds up the mast, and just got fried,\u201d Hancock said. He lost his right hand, the dominant one, and now wears a prosthetic.<\/p>\n

Undeterred, he said, \u201cI learned to become a lefty. It\u2019s not surprising what you can do when you have to.\u201d<\/p>\n

A man who learned to play the guitar as a young man, Hancock has played in a few bands off and on since medical school. One was called the Left-Hand Band (named before he joined) and another was the Rufus Bug Eye Blues Band, based in Grand Junction. Hancock said he\u2019d eventually like to form a band at UCHealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a terrific stress reliever,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s great when I can just disappear away with my guitar and play for hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as his position at the new UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital, he\u2019s not sure of all the details or even his title yet, but he\u2019s looking forward to seeing how it all evolves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the challenge. I like to build up programs and practices. That\u2019s what I did in Grand Junction and what I did at Mile High Oncology. It\u2019s always the fun part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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