Dr. Thomas J. Fahey Jr.Dr. Thomas J. Fahey Jr.

Thomas Fahey Jr. M.D. was appointed Senior Vice President for Clinical Program Development of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on February 12, 1996, after serving as Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases for 15 years. In this new position he assumed responsibility for developing and extending international relationships and programs. A graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Fahey completed his training in internal medicine at the Cornell Division at Bellevue Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York in 1964. He was Chief Resident in Medicine at Memorial in 1965. He joined the staff at Memorial in 1966 and since then he has served in a variety of leadership capacities, particulary in the area of outpatient services, which have become increasingly important in cancer care.

As medical Director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Breast Center from 1991-1996, he played a key role in the development of a full service, multidisciplinary, integrated, patient oriented, disease specific ambulatory center for breast cancer in an out-of hospital facility. As Associate Dean of Cornell University Medical College he oversees Memorial Sloan-Kettering's clinical graduate education programs for residents, fellows and medical students, as well as its continuing medical education programs for doctors in practice.

Dr. Fahey is the incumbent of the Anne Burnett Windfor Chair of Clinical Oncology. His clinical interests have been in the area of hormonal manipulation of endocrine related tumors. He has been president of the Damon-Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Foundation and of the New York State Society of Internal medicine. He currently serves as chairman of the board of calvary hospital, a terminal care hospital exclusively devoted to cancer patients in New York City.

Thomas J. Fahey JR., M.D.
Senior Vice President for Clinical Program Development
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
faheyt@mskcc.org

 

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