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Otis Webb Brawley
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Known forWork on cancer
AwardsKey to St. Bernard Parish, Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar, Member of the National Academy of Medicine
Scientific career
FieldsOncology and Epidemiology
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

Otis Webb Brawley is an American physician and the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He served as Chief Medical and Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society from July 2007 to November 2018. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology and is a Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine now known as the National Academy of Medicine.

Biography

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Brawley is a graduate of University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case-Western Reserve University, and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. As the chief medical and scientific officer and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society, Brawley is responsible for promoting the goals of cancer prevention, early detection, and quality treatment through cancer research and education. He is Professor of haematology, medical oncology, medicine and epidemiology at Emory University. He is also a medical consultant to the Cable News Network (CNN).[1] From 2001 to 2007, he was medical director of the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, and deputy director for cancer control at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. He has also previously served as a member of the Society's Prostate Cancer Committee, co-chaired the U.S. Surgeon General's Task Force on Cancer Health Disparities, and filled a variety of positions at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), most recently serving as assistant director. Brawley serves on the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has served as a member of the Food and Drug Administration Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee and chaired the NIH Consensus Panel on the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease. Among numerous other awards, he was a Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar and received the Key to St. Bernard Parish for his work in the U.S. Public Health Service in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In 2011, Brawley joined the International Prevention Research Institute as Senior Research Fellow.[2] In 2022, he was listed on STAT's inaugural STATUS List, "the most definitive and consequential accounting of important and impactful leaders in the life sciences."[3][4]

Brawley has published more than 200 scientific articles[5] and he has written a book, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America.[6]

Brawley works to reduce overscreening of medical conditions.[7]

Awards

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Brawley's awards include:

  • 2022 STAT's STATUS List[3]
  • 2019 American Medical Association (AMA) Distinguished Service Award[8]
  • 2019 University of Chicago Alumni Professional Achievement Award[9]
  • 2018 Martin D. Abeloff Award for Excellence in Public Health and Cancer Control, Maryland State Council of Cancer Control[10]
  • 2015 Elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine[11]
  • 2015 Named a Master of the American College of Physicians[12]
  • 2013 Special Recognition Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology[13]
  • 2009 AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Lecture[14]
  • Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology[15]
  • Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology[16]

Books

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Otis Brawley wrote the 2012 book, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America[17]

Publications

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Brawley has more than 30,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 73.[18]

Highly Cited Articles (more than 1000 citations)
  • 2011 with R Siegel, E Ward, A Jemal, Cancer statistics, 2011: the impact of eliminating socioeconomic and racial disparities on premature cancer deaths, in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Vol. 61, nº 4; 212–236.
  • 2012 with MM Center, A Jemal, J Lortet-Tieulent, E Ward, J Ferlay, F Bray, International variation in prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates, in European Urology. Vol. 61, nº 6; 1079–1092.
  • 2015 with KC Oeffinger, ETH Fontham, R Etzioni, A Herzig, JS Michaelson, YCT Shih, LC Walter, TR Church, CR Flowers, SJ LaMonte, AMD Wolf, C DeSantis, J Lortet-Tieulent, K Andrews, D Manassaram-Baptiste, D Saslow, RA Smith, R Wender, Breast cancer screening for women at average risk: 2015 guideline update from the American Cancer Society, in JAMA. Vol. 314, nº 15; 1599–1614.
  • 2012 with PB Bach, JN Mirkin, TK Oliver, CG Azzoli, DA Berry, T Byers, GA Colditz, MK Gould, JR Jett, AL Sabichi, RSmith-Bindman, DE Wood, A Qaseem, FC Detterbeck, Benefits and harms of CT screening for lung cancer: a systematic review, in JAMA. Vol. 307, nº 22; 2418–2429.
  • 2010 with GL Andriole, DG Bostwick, LG Gomella, M Marberger, F Montorsi, CA Pettaway, TL Tammela, C Teloken, DJ Tindall, MC Somerville, TH Wilson, IL Fowler, RS Rittmaster, Effect of dutasteride on the risk of prostate cancer, in New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 362; 1192–1202.

References

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  1. ^ Otis Brawley, Medical Consultant to the CNN
  2. ^ Otis Brawley at iPRI Archived 24 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b "Washington City Paper - Press Releases". Washington City Paper. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  4. ^ "BDP Otis Brawley named by STAT as one of the country's most influential science thought leaders". The Hub. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  5. ^ Otis Brawley's publications in PubMed
  6. ^ "How We Do Harm", Kirkus Reviews, 28 November 2011.
  7. ^ Lenzer, Jeanne (2016). "Otis Brawley—one of the first to question the value of screening". BMJ. 353: i2301. doi:10.1136/bmj.i2301. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 27117310. S2CID 38917899.
  8. ^ "Atlanta physician honored with Distinguished Service Award". American Medical Association. 16 November 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Otis W. Brawley, SB'81, MD'85, to deliver Class Day address during Convocation". University of Chicago News. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  10. ^ "2018 Annual Report - Maryland State Council on Cancer Control" (PDF). Maryland Department of Health. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Otis W. Brawley, M.D. Elected to National Academy of Medicine". American Cancer Society MediaRoom. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Mastership | Awards, Masterships & Competitions | ACP". www.acponline.org. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Otis W. Brawley, MD | CEO Roundtable on Cancer". www.ceoroundtableoncancer.org. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  14. ^ "AACR-MICR Jane Cooke Wright Lectureship | Awards | AACR".
  15. ^ "Otis W. Brawley, MD, MACP, FASCO". ASCO. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Otis Brawley". The Forum at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
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  18. ^ "Otis Brawley". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
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