Biography - Eric P. Winer, MD

Eric Winer, MD, is the director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Network. An internationally renowned expert in breast cancer, he has collaborated on innumerable clinical trials that have changed the face of the disease. His work is both broad and deep, and it has touched almost all aspects of breast cancer. Dr. Winer has long been an advocate of building teams consisting of scientists and clinicians to accelerate progress in cancer research and care.

In addition to his work caring for patients, Dr. Winer is the Alfred Gilman Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine. On a national scale, he is president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. For over a decade, he served as chief scientific advisor and chair of the scientific advisory board for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. For the past six years he has co-led the National Cancer Institute breast cancer steering committee.

Dr. Winer has published over 350 research articles and received numerous awards for his breast cancer research. He has served as the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health-funded SPORE in breast cancer for the last 10 years. “As a clinical trialist, I have conducted Phase I, II, and III studies with the goal of improving the treatment of women with breast cancer by defining more effective and less toxic approaches,” he says. 

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