Richard G. Pestell, MB, BS, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP, MBA — Director, Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson University

Richard G. Pestell, M.D., Ph.D. is an oncologist and endocrinologist who currently serves as the Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center, Chairman of the Department of Cancer Biology and Associate Dean of Cancer Programs at Jefferson Medical College, and Vice President of Oncology Services at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A native of Perth, Western Australia, Pestell received his M.B.B.S. in 1981 from the University of Western Australia, and his M.D. and Ph.D. in 1991 and 1997, respectively, from the University of Melbourne.[4] He was a postdoctoral clinical and research fellow in medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a postdoctoral research fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School, respectively, from 1991 to 1993.

Following his postdoctoral research, Pestell was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, Pestell left Chicago to become an associate professor, and later professor, in the Department of Medicine and Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, New York. Pestell would later serve as Chair of the Division of Endocrine-Dependent Tumor Biology at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center from 2000 to 2002.
In 2002, Dr. Pestell was named Director of the Lombardi Cancer Center at the Georgetown University Medical Center. During this tenure, Pestell also served as Associate Vice President of the Georgetown University Medical Center, and the Francis L. and Charlotte Gragnani Chair of the Department of Oncology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.[1] While serving as Director of the Lombardi Cancer Center, Pestell led the successful effort for renewal of its National Cancer Institute designation,[6] and founded the Capital Breast Care Center with Andrea Jung of the Avon Foundation.[7] In 2005, Pestell was named President of the USA branch of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research, and held that position until 2010. Pestell additionally served as the founding Director for the Delaware Valley Institute for Clinical and Translational Science from 2008 to 2010.

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