Dr. Dennis J.Slamon

Top medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer.

About

Dr. Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD is a groundbreaking medical oncologist and physician-scientist at UCLA Health, where he serves as Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Director of Clinical/Translational Research at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Executive Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine. He earned his MD and PhD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, followed by residency and fellowship training at UCLA. Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology, Dr. Slamon has devoted his career to advancing targeted therapies for breast cancer and currently provides both in-person and telehealth consultations for patients across the spectrum of solid tumor malignancies.

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Research papers · PubMed

171

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Background

Education

Medical school: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Residency: Internal Medicine at University of Chicago Hospitals

Fellowship: Hematology-Oncology, UCLA School of Medicine

Board certification: Medical Oncology · Internal Medicine

Awards

Warren Alpert Foundation Scientific Prize and 2007 Gairdner Foundation International Award for his work in the development of Herceptin.

Dennis J. Slamon received the Fifth Aultman Cancer Center Award from Kent State University and the David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award and Lecture at the American Society of Clinical Oncology honoring his work in the development of Herceptin, a molecularly targeted breast cancer therapy.

The American Cancer Society presented Slamon with the Medal of Honor, the top award bestowed by the organization.

Dennis J. Slamon received the Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research, an international award given by the Kirk A. and Dorothy P. Landon Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research.

Dennis J. Slamon was awarded the Wadsworth Center's Brown-Hazen Award for Excellence in the Basic Sciences, and in 2002, he received the Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas.

Dennis J. Slamon was awarded the Translational Medicine Award by the USCD-Salk Institute as well as the Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology Millennium Award for significant achievement and leadership in breast cancer research.

Memberships and affiliations

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

NCCN Breast Cancer Guidelines Panel

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)