Otis Webb Brawley MD, MACP, FASCO

Otis W. Brawley, MD, FACP, is a chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society. He serves as a professor of hematology, oncology, medicine, and epidemiology at Emory University. Over a career that has encompassed clinical practice, research, and public policy, Dr. Brawley has championed the American Cancer Society’s initiatives in tobacco cessation, nutrition, early detection of cancer, and whole-patient care, as well as efforts to eliminate disparities in access to quality cancer care.

Dr. Brawley is a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women. He has previously served as co-chair of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Task Force on Cancer Health Disparities and assistant director of the National Cancer Institute, among other appointments. He was presented with the Key to St. Bernard Parish for his work in the U.S. Public Health Service in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He is the author of How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, published in 2012. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. ASCO is pleased to recognize Dr. Brawley’s outstanding dedication to the fields of cancer prevention and control, health disparities, and public health.