Larry Norton, M.D.
Larry Norton, M.D. is deputy physician-in-chief and director of Breast Cancer Programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Since its inception in 1993, Dr. Norton has served as chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He is Past President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and Past Chair of the ASCO Foundation. Dr. Norton was a Presidential Appointee to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the NCI (1998-2004). He is the first incumbent of the Norma S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology at MSKCC and recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2004 David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award.
After receiving his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, he trained in Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then served as a Clinical Associate and Investigator at the NCI prior to joining the faculty of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York from 1977 to 1988. He is currently Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Norton has served on or chaired numerous committees of governmental and professional organizations, including the NCI's Cancer Clinical Investigations Review Committee, its Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource (Registry) and the Consensus Development Conference on Treatment of Early Stage Breast Cancer (1990). He has also served on several committees of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Norton is on the editorial board of several medical publications, and is an active clinical and laboratory investigator. He is the co-author of the Norton-Simon Model, which has broadly influenced cancer treatment and research for over 25 years.
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