Larry Norton, MD, Chairman
BCRF Executive Board of Scientific Advisors
Larry Norton is Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Hospital with responsibility for Breast Cancer Programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Since its inception in 1993, Dr. Norton has served as scientific director and chairman of the Executive Board of Scientific Advisors of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Dr. Norton 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.
Dr. Norton has served on or chaired numerous committees of governmental and professional organizations, including the Breast Committee of the Cancer & Leukemia Group B, 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 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 thirty years.
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