Clifford A. Hudis

Dr. Hudis is the CEO of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Previously he served for nearly two decades as the Chief of the Breast Medicine Service and Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City where he was also a Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He was co-chair of the Breast Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (formerly Cancer and Leukemia Group), Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the President of ASCO during its 50th anniversary year, 2013-2014.

For almost 30 years Dr. Hudis worked to develop more effective treatment and prevention for breast cancer. His early work focused on translating the kinetic predictions of the Norton-Simon model into more effective dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy programs. For the past decade he has studied the interplay of inflammation, obesity, and cancer and his group described low grade, chronic white adipose inflammation in most overweight and obese women. His group has made similar observations in other malignancies and risk groups and have used these insights to inform intervention studies and public policy initiatives at an international level.

Now, at ASCO, he is the CEO of the largest professional society in the world for cancer physicians and oversees a staff of nearly 500 distributed across ASCO itself, ASCO’s big data project (CancerLinQ) and ASCO’s philanthropic foundation, (Conquer Cancer). He has recently led the organization as it developed a comprehensive strategic plan and identified key priorities and opportunities for the next five years.