Biography

Dr Kenneth Offit received his MD and MPH in 1982 from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He received training in medical oncology and cancer genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), where he is Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service. Dr Offit is a professor of medicine and public health at Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University, vice chairman of the MSKCC program in Cancer Prevention and Population Research and vice chairman for academic affairs in the MSKCC Department of Medicine. In 1996, his research group first described and characterized the most common genetic mutation associated with breast and ovarian cancer in Ashkenazi Jews. His group was also the first to prospectively measure the impact of preventive ovarian surgery in individuals carrying mutations. Dr Offit has received awards for his textbook Clinical Cancer Genetic and has received a career research recognition award from the American Cancer Society.

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