Professor Thomas Lynch's Biography
Thomas Lynch, Jr., M.D.
Director, Yale Cancer Center
Physician-in-Chief Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hopsital
Richard and Jonathan Sackler Professor of Internal Medicine
Dr. Lynch is the Director of the Yale Cancer Center and the Physician-in-Chief at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. He has focused his career on the care and treatment of patients with lung cancer and on bringing novel translational therapies to the clinic to treat lung cancer. Prior to April 2009 he was the Chief of Hematology-Oncology at MGH and an Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School He received his M.D. in 1986 from Yale University and completed his internship and residency at MGH in 1989. Dr. Lynch served as a fellow in medical oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 1989-1991 and joined the staff at MGH in 1993 His academic interest focuses on using novel agents in advanced lung cancer. Recently his work has focused on agents directed against the epidermal growth factor receptor and the potential role that EGFR mutations play in lung cancer biology. Dr. Lynch is a founding board member and Chairman of the Board of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center- a foundation devoted to promoting compassionate health care.
