Kenneth Offit
Kenneth Offit is Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service and the Robert and Kate Niehaus Chair in Inherited Cancer Genomics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Offit is a medical oncologist with clinical and laboratory experience in cancer genetics. His research focuses on defining genetic factors that cause an increased susceptibility to cancer. Offit鈥檚 research team identified the most common mutation associated with an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer among individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. With colleagues at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he also published the first prospective series describing the outcome of preventive ovarian surgery and screening in women at hereditary risk for breast and ovarian cancer.
Offit earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He has received American Society of Clinical Oncology鈥揂merican Cancer Society Award and the Basser Global Prize.