Robert Mayer

Dr. Mayer is faculty vice president for Academic Affairs at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, senior physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Stephen B. Kay Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School where he is also faculty associate dean for Admissions. He directed the Institute's Medical Oncology Fellowship Program for 36 years, overseeing the training of several hundred oncologists. Dr. Mayer's research interests focus on gastrointestinal cancer, a subject about which he has published extensively. Dr. Mayer established the Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is the past chair of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, a cooperative group sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Mayer has served as an associate editor for the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Oncology, is a former member of the Executive Committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), receiving ASCO’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2019. Dr. Mayer is a graduate of Williams College and the Harvard Medical School.

Clinical Interests

• Biliary Tract Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer
• Gastrointestinal Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer

Education

Medical School

• Harvard Medical School/ BWH, 1969

Residency

• Mount Sinai Hospital, 1971

Board Certifications

• Hematology

Internal Medicine

• Medical Oncology

Fellowships

• National Cancer Institute, 1974
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 1976