Robert Daly, MD, MBA
Thoracic Oncologist
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About Me
- Assistant Attending Physician
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in caring for people with lung cancer. I am also a health services researcher who is interested in innovative cancer care systems that provide high quality, affordable, and sustainable care.
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My graduate education at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, where my work focused on improving care delivery in a resource-poor setting, gave me an appreciation for improving complex healthcare systems. I also performed research at Massachusetts General Hospital that focused on ways for leaders to make hospitals safer and graduated with honors for this work.
My research has evolved to study aspects of cancer care delivery including disparities in cancer care, the overuse of aggressive treatments at the end of life, and interventions to improve the quality of care delivery. I was selected as one of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s inaugural health policy fellows; in this role I am working to identify and prioritize policy areas for intervention to improve the value of cancer care.
One of my patients’ top concerns is balancing treatment with quality of life. My goal for them and their caregivers is to feel like their concerns and personal goals have been heard, recognized, and incorporated into their personalized care plan.
A thoracic oncologist is a cancer doctor with special training in thoracic (thor-A-sik) cancers. These are cancers that have to do with the chest, including lung, tracheal (windpipe), and thymic (thymus) cancers.
My Specialties
- Lung Cancer
- Cancer Health Policy
- Cancer Care Delivery
- Symptom Management
Education
- MD, Harvard Medical School
Residencies
- Internal Medicine - New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Awards and Honors
- Dean's Award, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School
- American Society of Clinical Oncology Health Policy Fellowship (2016)
- Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Award (2015, 2016)
Fellowships
- Hematology/Oncology - University of Chicago Medicine
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
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Daly B, Olopade OI. Race, ethnicity, and the diagnosis of breast cancer. JAMA. 2015 Jan 13;313(2):141-2.
Daly B, Olopade OI. A perfect storm: How tumor biology, genomics, and health care delivery patterns collide to create a racial survival disparity in breast cancer and proposed interventions for change. CA Cancer J Clin. 2015 May-Jun;65(3):221-38.
Visit PubMed for a full listing of Dr. Daly’s journal articles. Pubmed is an online index of research papers and other articles from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.
Robert Daly discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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Roche
Equity
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Varian Medical Systems
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