Bio / CV
Howard (Jack) West, MD
Vice President, Clinical Development
Summit Therapeutics
Menlo Park, CA
Dr. West is a thoracic oncology specialist serving as Vice President of Clinical Development (Lung Cancer) for Summit Therapeutics in Menlo Park, CA.
Dr. West received an MPhil in Experimental Biology from Cambridge University on a Fulbright Scholarship and a medical degree (magna cum laude) from Harvard Medical School, where Dr. West also conducted research as a Howard Hughes Medical Student Fellow. His postdoctoral training included an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA, followed by a fellowship in medical oncology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
After serving for over 16 years as Medical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, he moved to the City of Hope as an Associate Professor in Medical Oncology and Vice President of Network Strategy for AccessHope, providing remote cancer subspecialist consult services to patients around the US.
He has authored dozens of papers and chairs several CME programs and symposia internationally on thoracic oncology, novel educational approaches, and social media in cancer care. He is the Founder & former President of Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE) and served as Web Editor for JAMA Oncology, a regular correspondent for Medscape, and contributing author and section editor in Lung Cancer for UpToDate before joining Summit Therapeutics.