Background
DeVita, Vincent Theodore was born on March 7, 1935 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Vincent Theodore and Isabel DeV.
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Vincent Theodore DeVita
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Bachelor of Science, College William and Mary, 1957; Doctor of Medicine, George Washington University, 1961; Doctor of Science (honorary), New York Medical College, 1987; Doctor of Science (honorary), Georgetown University, 1989.
Career
Intern, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, 1961-1962;
resident in medicine, George Washington University Medical Service District of Columbia General Hospital, 1962-1963;
clinical associate Laboratory Chemical Pharmacology,, National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1963-1965;
senior resident in medicine, Yale New Haven Medical Center, 1965-1966;
senior investigator solid tumor service, medicine branch, National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health, 1966-1968;
head solid tumor service, medicine branch, National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health, 1968-1971;
chief medical branch, National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health, 1971-1974;
director division cancer treatment, National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health, 1974-1980;
clinical director institute, National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health, 1975-1980;
director, National Cancer Institute, National Cancer Program, National Institutes of Health, 1980-1988;
physician-in-chief, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, 1988-1991;
attending physician, member, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, 1988-1993;
Benno C. Schmidt chair clinical oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, 1988-1993;
professor medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1989-1993;
director, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, since 1993;
professor medicine, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, since 1993;
attending physician, Yale-New Haven Hospital, since 1993;
professor epidemiology public health, director of Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, since 1994. Associate professor medicine George Washington University Medical School, 1971-1975, professor medicine, 1975-1989. Visiting physician Rockefeller U. Hospital, 1989-1993.
Mem.expert advisory panel World Health Organization, 1976-1993. Member Lasker Award Jury, since 1974. Chairman Committee French-American Agreement on Cancer Treatment Research, 1976.
Visiting professor Stanford University Medical School, 1972. 1st annual Clowes lecturer Roswell Park Memorial Institute Buffalo, 1973. Member science committee 4th International Congresson Anti-Cancer Chemotherapy, 1991-1992, 5th International Congress on Anti-Cancer Chemotherapy, also member international advisory board, since 1993.
Member science advisory board Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program State of California, since 1991, Hollings Cancer Center, since 1991. Member of advisory board Stop Cancer, since 1991. Mem.sci. committee Italian-American Foundation For Cancer Research, since 1991.
Member clinical advisory board Hybridon, Inc., since 1993. Board directors Imclone Systems Inc., OncotechInc., Oncos Inc.
Achievements
Membership
Member awards assembly General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, 1981-1985, advisory council, since 1984. Member Armand Hammer Cancer Award Committee, since 1983. Served with United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1955-1961.
Fellow American College of Physicians, New York Academy of Medicine. Member American Medical Association, American Society Clinical Oncology (chairman program committee 1972, director 1973-1976, president 1977-1978), American Cancer Society, American Society Hematology, American Association Cancer Research (director 1976-1979), American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, Society Surgical Oncology, Smith-Reed-Russel Medical Society, International Council for Coordinating Cancer Research (president American board 1989-1992), Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Connections
Married Mary Kay Bush, August 3, 1957. Children: Teddy (deceased), Elizabeth.
