Gary Herbert Lyman MD, MPH, FACP, FRCP, FASCO

Gary H. Lyman, MD, MPH, FACP, FRCP (Edin), FASCO, is Co-Director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, a Full Member of the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and a Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology at the University of Washington.

In addition to serving on the ASCO Board of Directors, Dr. Lyman is a member of the Journal of Oncology Practice’s Editorial Board and Cancer Research Committee, as well as Chair of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee. He also sits on the Breast Cancer Consensus Panel and is Co-Chair of the Breast Cancer Guideline Advisory and Survivorship Guideline Advisory Groups. An ASCO member since 1977, Dr. Lyman has served on the Journal of Clinical Oncology Editorial Board, the Cancer Education Committee, and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Oncology Practice, among other activities.

Dr. Lyman has served as an advisor to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee and has been active in the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (formerly Cancer and Leukemia Group B), the Southwest Oncology Group, and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. He has served on the Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis Panel and the Growth Factors Panel for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and as an editor for numerous academic journals.

Dr. Lyman received his medical degree from the State University of New York (Buffalo) and a Master of Public Health degree in Biostatistics from Harvard University School of Public Health. After completing a medical internship and residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a clinical medical oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard University School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was Chief of Medicine at the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of South Florida and the University of Rochester before assuming his current positions at Duke University.