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Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD serves as director of Clinical/Translational Research, and as director of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program at JCCC. He is a professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and executive vice chair for research for UCLA's Department of Medicine. Slamon also serves as director of the medical advisory board for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, a fund-raising organization that promotes advances in colorectal cancer.

For 12 years, Dr. Slamon and his colleagues conducted the laboratory and clinical research that led to the development of the new breast cancer drug Herceptin, which targets a specific genetic alteration found in about 25 percent of breast cancer patients. To acknowledge Slamon's accomplishments, President Clinton appointed Slamon to the three-member President's Cancer Panel in June 2000.

A 1975 honors graduate of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, Slamon earned his PhD in cell biology that same year. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, becoming chief resident in 1978. One year later, he became a fellow in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UCLA.

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Santa Monica Cancer Care
2020 Santa Monica Blvd.
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Santa Monica, CA 90404
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Santa Monica Parkside Cancer Care
2336 Santa Monica Blvd.
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Medical Board Certifications
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1978
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Medical Oncology, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1981
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Hematology-Oncology, UCLA School of Medicine, 1979-1982
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Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals, 1976-1979
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Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals, 1975-1976
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University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, MD, 1975
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  • Breast
  • Ovarian Cancer

    Ovarian Cancer: Introduction

    Many types of tumors can start growing in the ovaries. Some are benign. This means that they’re not cancer. Benign tumors don’t spread. They can usually be treated by removing one ovary or part of the ovary. Ovarian cancer, however, is a malignant (cancerous) tumor. If a cancerous tumor isn’t treated, it can grow and spread to other parts of your body.
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Awards

Dr. Slamon has won nearly a dozen national research awards honoring his scientific endeavors.

  • Warren Alpert Foundation Scientific Prize and 2007 Gairdner Foundation International Award for his work in the development of Herceptin.
  • Dr. Slamon received the Fifth Aultman Cancer Center Award from Kent State University and the David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award and Lecture at the American Society of Clinical Oncology honoring his work in the development of Herceptin, a molecularly targeted breast cancer therapy.
  • In 2004, the American Cancer Society presented Slamon with the Medal of Honor, the top award bestowed by the organization.
  • In 2003, Slamon received the Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research, an international award given by the Kirk A. and Dorothy P. Landon Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research.
  • In 2001, Slamon was awarded the Wadsworth Center's Brown-Hazen Award for Excellence in the Basic Sciences, and in 2002, he received the Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas.
  • In 2000, Slamon was awarded the Translational Medicine Award by the USCD-Salk Institute as well as the Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology Millennium Award for significant achievement and leadership in breast cancer research.
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