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Susan Domchek

Susan M. Domchek, MD
Executive Director, Basser Center for BRCA
Director, Mariann and Robert MacDonald Cancer Risk Evaluation Center
Susan Domchek is the Basser Professor in Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. She serves as Executive Director of the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center and Director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Cancer Risk Evaluation Center. Her work focuses on the genetic evaluation and medical management of individuals with inherited risk factors for cancer. Dr. Domchek is particularly interested in developing new cancer therapies, such as PARP inhibitors, for patients with genetic risk factors. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Domchek is also a significant contributor to the oncology literature. She has authored/co-authored more than 400 articles appearing in scholarly journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of Clinical Oncology, among others.