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Andrew Bottomley

Andrew Bottomley is a British psychologist and researcher who led the EORTC Quality of Life Department in Brussels for over two decades, setting standards for quality-of-life measurement in cancer trials.

Bruce E. Hillner

Bruce E. Hillner is an American physician-researcher in oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University, known for cost-effectiveness analysis of cancer care and the 2011 NEJM article "Bending the Cost Curve in Cancer Care."

Cary P. Gross

Cary P. Gross is a general internal medicine physician and cancer outcomes researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he founded and directs the COPPER Center.

Charles L. Shapiro

Charles L. Shapiro is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and cancer survivorship, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2014.

Christopher M. Booth

Christopher M. Booth is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinician-scientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, who led the CHALLENGE trial of exercise after colon cancer chemotherapy.

Dawn L. Hershman

Dawn L. Hershman, also published as Dawn Hershman, is an American medical oncologist at Columbia University who studies breast cancer treatment and why patients stop taking cancer therapies.

Deborah Schrag

Deborah Schrag, also known as Deb Schrag, is an American gastrointestinal medical oncologist who became Chair of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2021.

Éduardo Bruera

Éduardo Bruera, born in Argentina in 1955, is a medical oncologist who has led palliative medicine at MD Anderson since 1999 and created the widely used Edmonton Symptom Assessment System.

Ethan Basch

Ethan M. Basch is an American medical oncologist at the University of North Carolina whose research showed electronic symptom monitoring during cancer treatment improves quality of life and survival.

George P. Browman

George P. Browman is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical epidemiologist known for head and neck cancer research and for founding Cancer Care Ontario's Program in Evidence-Based Care.

Gunnar Steineck

Gunnar Steineck was a Swedish physician and professor of clinical cancer epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Gothenburg, known for patient-reported outcome research among cancer survivors.

Harold P. Freeman

Harold P. Freeman was an American surgical oncologist who pioneered patient navigation for poor and uninsured cancer patients, founding the first navigator program in Harlem in 1990.

Hyman B. Muss

Hyman B. Muss is an American medical oncologist specializing in geriatric oncology and breast cancer, who led the first chemotherapy trial in older patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Jane C. Weeks

Jane C. Weeks, also known as Jane Weeks, was an American oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who pioneered cancer outcomes research before her death in 2013.

Jean E. Johnson

Jean E. Johnson, full name Jean Elaine Irwin Johnson (1925–2022), was an American nurse scientist at the University of Rochester known for self-regulation theory in patient education.

Jeanne S. Mandelblatt

Jeanne S. Mandelblatt is an American geriatrician and professor of oncology at Georgetown University, founder of its Institute for Cancer and Aging Research and leader of CISNET breast cancer modeling.

Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt

Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt is an American gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where he leads colorectal cancer research and national phase 3 clinical trials.

Jennifer S. Temel

Jennifer S. Temel is an American oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital known for her 2010 trial showing early palliative care improved survival in lung cancer.

Lee W. Jones

Lee W. Jones is a Canadian-born exercise oncology researcher who quantified how chemotherapy degrades fitness and ran randomized trials of prescribed exercise therapy at Duke and Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Pamela J. Goodwin

Pamela J. Goodwin (Pamela Jean Goodwin) is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, known for research on breast cancer outcomes.

Patricia A. Ganz

Patricia A. Ganz is an American medical oncologist at UCLA, known as a pioneer in cancer quality-of-life measurement and survivorship care, directing cancer prevention research there since 1993.

Sophie D. Fosså

Sophie D. Fosså (born 1941) is a Norwegian oncologist and professor emerita at Oslo University Hospital known for prostate and testicular cancer research and late-effects studies.

Thomas J. Smith

Thomas J. Smith is an American medical oncologist and palliative care physician, professor at Johns Hopkins since 2011, known for cancer cost research and ASCO's first palliative care guidelines.