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Biographical Sketch -- Joseph V. Simone, MD
Dr. Simone is president of Simone Consulting, clinical director emeritus of the Huntsman Cancer Institute and the professor emeritus of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University in Chicago in 1960. He completed his training in Chicago with a residency in medicine at Presbyterian-St.Luke's Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Simone spent most of his medical career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, where he joined the staff in 1967. In his years there, he was engaged in clinical research efforts to improve therapy for children with cancer; he played a leadership role in the development of curative treatments for childhood leukemia and lymphoma. In 1983, Dr. Simone was named director of St. Jude, at which time he turned his efforts to the administrative leadership of research and the hospital. During Dr. Simone's tenure, St. Jude experienced both a scientific renewal and major growth in its physical facilities.
From 1992 to 1996 he served as physician-in-chief of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City where he developed several programs aimed at addressing the seismic changes in health care. These included a cancer disease management system and a regional clinical cancer network.
Dr. Simone has served as medical director and chairman of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and as a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1996 to 2002. He was appointed a member the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine since 1997 and served as its chairman until 2005. He serves on the external advisory committees of 10 NCI-designated cancer centers. He is past chairman of both the Cancer Clinical Investigators Review Committee and the Cancer Center Review Committee of the National Cancer Institute. He is a former president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes and former vice chairman of the Pediatric Oncology Group.
Among his awards and honors, Dr. Simone was elected to the Association of American Physicians. The American Association for Cancer Research awarded him the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award. The American Society of Clinical Oncology awarded him the Distinguished Service Award for Scientific Excellence in 2002, the Public Service Award in 2006, and the ASCO-American Cancer Society Award for efforts in cancer control in 2010. He has received four awards of excellence in writing for his regular column in Oncology Times.
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