Jeffrey Peppercorn

Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD, MPH is a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Supportive Care and Survivorship Program. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include bioethics and policy issues related to cancer care. He is also engaged in clinical and health services research aimed at improving care delivery and outcomes for cancer survivors. He chairs the Ethics committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology and has served as Chair of the Ethics committee of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and on the NCCN guidelines panel for cancer survivors. His research has been funded by the NIH, American Cancer Society, Greenwall Foundation for Bioethics, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and ASCO and he has published over 125 papers related to oncology and bioethics. He has served as an advisor to the Healthwell Foundation for many years and currently serves as the Scientific and Ethics Advisor to the foundation.