Larry Shulman

Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, MACP, FASCO, is professor of Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, deputy director for Clinical Services at the Abramson Cancer Center. In this capacity, he helps to lead the Cancer Quality program and strategic development of Cancer Services across the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He is the immediate past-chair of the Commission on Cancer and serves on the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academy. He is the former chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality of Care Committee and the Commission on Cancer’s Quality Integration Committee. He is the director of the Center for Global Cancer Medicine at the Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Senior Oncology Advisor to the non-profit organization Partners In Health (PIH). The PIH mission includes the establishment of national cancer treatment programs with the Ministries of Health in Rwanda and Haiti, programs for which he plays a seminal leadership role. He sits on the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Council for Rwanda’s University for Global Health Equity. In addition, he helps to lead the development of the national oncology program in Botswana through the Botswana-UPenn Partnership. He is a former member of ASCO’s International Affairs Committee and their Task Force on Global Oncology as an Academic Career. He led the World Health Organization’s review and revision of their Essential Medicines for Cancer from 2014-2017. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and trained in Hematology and Oncology at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.