# Clifford A. Hudis

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## TL;DR

Clifford Hudis is a breast oncologist who has run ASCO since 2016.

## Summary

Clifford Hudis is Chief Executive Officer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), a role he has held since 2016, and was formerly Chief of the Breast Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. A breast oncologist, he served as ASCO president in 2013 to 2014 and now oversees the society's meetings, journals, guidelines and CancerLinQ. His papers include a New England Journal of Medicine review of trastuzumab's mechanism of action and clinical use and the STEEP proposal for standardised efficacy end point definitions in adjuvant breast cancer trials. His work spans HR-positive and HER2-positive breast cancer, professional society leadership and health policy.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Role: Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Specialisms: Breast cancer; Professional society leadership; Health policy

## Sources

- ASCO leadership: https://www.asco.org/about-asco/asco-leadership
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Hudis%20CA%5BAuthor%5D
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Clifford%20A.%20Hudis

## Connected records

- cancers: [HER2-positive breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-her2-positive/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/)
- institutions: [American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/asco/), [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/mskcc/)

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