Biography

Marc E. Lippman, MD, was named the Kathleen and Stanley Glaser Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, and was named Chairman of the Department of Medicine in May 2007. Previously, Dr. Lippman was the John G. Searle Professor and Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr Lippman has served as Head of the Medical Breast Cancer Section, Medicine Branch, at the National Institutes of Health and was a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute. A native of New York, Dr. Lippman received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and medical school degree at Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was elected to AOA. He completed his residency on the Osler Medical Service, John Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland and a Fellowship in Endocrinology at Yale Medical School. Dr. Lippman is widely known for his research in breast cancer. Throughout his career he has received numerous awards, including the First American Cancer Society Lectureship and Prize at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting in Orlando, Florida in May 1993; the American Association for Cancer Research Rosenthal Award; and the Brinker Award for Basic Science of the Komen Foundation. Dr. Lippman also owns several patents. Dr. Lippman is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Society of Biological Chemists, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is also a member of the board of directors of Ascenta Therapeutics Inc., and Seattle Genetics. As a researcher, Dr. Lippman has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles. In addition, he has authored many books and contributed many chapters based on his breast cancer research, including a textbook on breast disease. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous publications, including Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, for which he serves as editor-in-chief. He has previously been editor-in-chief of Endocrine-Related Cancer.

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