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Robert A. Winn, MD Director, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center; “An Update on the Fight Against Cancer”

As director of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Robert A. Winn, M.D., is leading the nation in establishing a 21st-century model for optimizing cancer health care outcomes and spearheading interdisciplinary approaches to cancer disparities research. He is the fourth director of Massey since its 1975 National Cancer Institute designation, Winn oversees a center comprised of nearly 150 scientists and clinical investigators.

Previously he was director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center from 2015-2019 and associate vice chancellor at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System from 2013-2019. Prior to his work in Chicago, he spent 13 years at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and School of Medicine in a variety of leadership roles.

Winn holds a B.A. from Notre Dame and an M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.  He has authored or co-authored more than 80 published manuscripts in peer-reviewed academic journals.