Ray Lynch, executive director of Huntsman Cancer Hospital, oversees operations of the state-of-the-art, 50-bed facility, including programmatic planning and physician relationships. Huntsman Cancer Hospital is the patient-treatment component of Huntsman Cancer Institute, the only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated clinical cancer center in the Intermountain West. It houses all cancer care services for the University of Utah Hospital, including operating rooms, radiation therapy facilities, multidisciplinary clinics, imaging services, and an endoscopy center.

From 1989 to 2002, Lynch was vice president and chief operating officer of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC), an NCI-designated cancer research and treatment organization in San Antonio, Texas.

Lynch, a CPA, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri and an MBA from Baylor University.