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Gary K. Schwartz
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Gary K. Schwartz Chief, Melanoma and Sarcoma Service
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I am a board-certified medical oncologist and internist and Chief of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Melanoma and Sarcoma Service. I am also a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. In addition, I direct the Laboratory of New Drug Development, which focuses on the identification of new targeted agents for cancer therapy especially in the treatment of sarcoma and melanoma. However, these agents are not disease specific and hold promise in the treatment of all solid tumor malignancies. These laboratories studies allow for a bridge between the laboratory and the clinic, and many of the drugs that originated in the lab are now being evaluated in clinical trials. My research studies have been supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer, the Department of Defense for Breast Cancer Research, the Byrne Foundation, the Food and Drug Administration, and the generous philanthropic support of MSKCC patients and their families.
I participate in the efforts of a number of professional organizations including Cancer and Leukemia Group B, American Association of Cancer Research, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and Radiotherapy Oncology Group. For several years I have worked closely with the National Institutes of Health and served on a number of NIH review committees. Over the course of my career I have received many awards including the MSKCC Burdha Award for Colon Cancer Research, Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Research, Jeannik M. Littlefield - AACR Award in Metastatic Colon Cancer, the New York State Teaching Award in the Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program, as well as many teaching awards from MSKCC. I have also been awarded a prestigious K12 award from the NCI for the training of the next generation of physician-scientists in cancer therapy.
I have served on a number of journal editorial boards including that of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Clinical Cancer Research and I am currently an Associate Editor of Clinical Cancer Research. I am author of more than 100 papers and 17 book chapters.
Appointments for New Patients
646-497-9053
Phone
212-639-8324
Education
MD, Albany Medical College of Union University (New York)
Residencies
North Shore University Hospital
Fellowships
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Board Certifications
Internal Medicine; Medical Oncology
Clinical Expertise
Novel Drug Therapies; Gastroesophageal, Pancreas and Colon Cancer; Sarcomas
Department & Service
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