Bruce A. Chabner

Background

Chabner, Bruce A. was born on June 3, 1940 in Shelbyville, Illinois, United States.

Education

Bachelor summa cum laude, Yale College, 1961; Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard University, 1965.

Career

Intern, junior resident, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1965-1967; senior resident, Yale-New Haven (Connecticut) Medical Center, 1969-1970; research associate department medicine and pharmacology, Yale University, New Haven senior staff fellow, senior investigator laboratory clinical pharmacology and solid tumor service, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1971-1972; senior surgeon division cancer treatment, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1972-1975; head biochemistry pharmacology section, laboratory clinical pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1973-1975; chief clinical pharmacology branch, clinical oncology program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1976-1980; associate director clinical oncology program, division cancer treatment, deputy clinical director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1980-1982; director division cancer treatment, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1982. Member of committee revision United States Pharmacopeia, chairman subcommittee on hematologic and neoplastic disease therapy, 1974-1979. Member study section experimental therapeutics, National Institutes of Health, 1974-1979.

Member molecular biology advisory board National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, 1977. With United States/France Agreement in Clinical Trials and Treatment Research, 1977-1980. With United States/Italy AGreement in Clinical Cancer Research, since 1980.

Program chairman Conference on Folate and Antifolate Polyglutamates AirlieHo., Warrenton, Virginia, 1981. Associate member committee medical oncology American Board Internal Medicine, 1981-1983, chairman, 1981-1987, member parent board, 1985-1987. Pfizer lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology U. Vermont, 1980, Yale University, 1981, BrownU., 1987.

Visiting professor U. Capetown, South Africa, 1981. Terry Fox Memorial lecturer Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, 1982. Program chairman Keystone (Colorado)/University of California at Los Angeles Conference Rational Design of Cancer Treatment, 1982.

Member protocol review committee European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, since 1982. William Dameschek Memorial lecturer Tufts U., 1985. Program chairman conference new biology Institute Medicine NAS, 1988, member roundtable for development drugs and vaccines against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, since 1988.

Centennial visiting professor medicine, U. Toronto, 1989. William N. Creasy visiting professor in Clinical Pharmacology, University of Southern California, 1989. GertrudeVictorson Ratner Memorial lecturer, Evanston Hospital, 1989.

Achievements

• Bruce A. Chabner has been listed as a noteworthy Oncologist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

With United States Public Health Service, since 1972. Member American College of Physicians (medical knowledge self-assessment program committee since 1980), American Association Cancer Research (program committee 1979-1981), American Society Clinical Oncology (program committee 1982, David A. Karnofsky Memorial lecturer 1985), American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Hematology, Association American Physicians, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married; 2 children.