Clifford Hudis, MD, Chairman
BCRF Scientific Advisory Committee
Clifford Hudis, MD, is Chief of the Breast Cancer Medicine Service and Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
A 1983 graduate of the Medical College of Pennsylvania (a combined 6 year BA/MD program with Lehigh University), Dr. Hudis joined the MSKCC faculty in 1991, where he is co-Leader of the Breast Disease Management Team. He has recently been elected President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for the 2013 academic year. He serves also as a member of the Board of Directors (as Treasurer) of ASCO and is co-Chair of the Breast Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (formerly the Cancer and Leukemia Group B). In addition, he is a member of the Steering Committees of the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium and The North American Breast Cancer Group, and a member of National Cancer Institute's Breast Cancer Correlative Science Committee.
Dr. Hudis's research includes the development of a wide range of novel drugs and the study of relevant correlative science endpoints in breast cancer. With his collaborators both at MSKCC and beyond he has focused his BCRF-supported research on understanding the mechanisms that link diet, obesity, inflammation, and breast cancer risk and outcomes. In 2007, Dr. Hudis was appointed as Chairman of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Scientific Advisory Committee.
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