Dr. Larry Norton
Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Hospital with responsibility for Breast Cancer Programs
Medical Director, Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Larry Norton, M.D is Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Hospital with responsibility for Breast Cancer Programs; Medical Director, Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Since its inception in 1993, Dr. Norton has served as chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He is Past President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and past Chair of the ASCO Foundation. Dr. Norton was a Presidential Appointee to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the NCI (1998-2004.) He is the first incumbent of the Norna S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology at MSKCC and recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's highest scientific award, The 2004 David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award.
After receiving his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, he trained in Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then served as a Clinical Associate and Investigator at the NCI prior to joining the faculty of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York from 1977-1988. He is currently Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Norton has served on or chaired numerous committees of governmental and professional organizations, including the NCI's Cancer Clinical Investigations Review Committee, its Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource (Registry), and the Consensus Development Conference on Treatment of Early Stage Breast Cancer (1990). He has also served on several committees of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Norton is on the editorial board of several medical publications, and is an active clinical and laboratory investigator. He is the co-author of the Norton-Simon Model, which has broadly influenced cancer treatment and research for over twenty-five years.
Dr. Norton has received numerous honorary visiting professorships including the Belsky-Moranis Memorial Lectureship, New York University Medical Center; the Shoshana Biran Visiting Professorship, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; the Vivian Saykaly Visiting Professorship, McGill University and Universite de Montreal 2003; and the Paul Carbone Visiting Professorship, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
He has also been honored by many organizations including Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, the American-Italian Foundation for Cancer Research, the Don Shula Foundation, NABCO, Cancer Care, Share (NY), and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
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