Chief Medical Officer, Radiation Oncologist
New York Proton Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Charles B. Simone II, MD, FACRO is Research Professor and Chief Medical Officer of the New York Proton Center. He is also a Full Member in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is an internationally recognized expert in proton therapy to treat thoracic malignancies and reirradiation, and in developing innovative clinical trial strategies in thoracic oncology. He was previously Chief of the Thoracic Oncology Service at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Penn Mesothelioma and Pleural Program, and Director of Clinical Research and Operations in Radiation Oncology at Penn. He then became Medical Director of Maryland Proton Treatment Center. At Maryland, he was also Chair of the Clinical Research Committee for their Comprehensive Cancer Center, proton therapy Fellowship Director, and Director of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy. He completed his undergraduate and medical training at UPenn and radiation oncology residency at the NCI/NIH, where he was chief resident.
Dr. Simone is an NIH, National Science Foundation, and DOD funded investigator who has published >495 peer-reviewed scientific articles/chapters, given >390 scientific lectures to national/international audiences, and is the national Principal Investigator or Co-Chair of 8 NIH-funded cooperative group trials (5 NRG Oncology, 1 SWOG, 1 ECOG-ACRIN, 1 PCG). He is a three-time winner of the Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology Educator of the Year Award.
Dr. Simone is the Proton Collaborative Group (PCG) Board of Directors President. He Chairs: PCG Lung Committee; NRG Oncology Particle Therapy Work Group; American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Lung Resource Panel Committee; ASTRO Blue Ribbon Lung Panel; American Radium Society Appropriate Use Criteria Thoracic Committee; several Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group Subcommittee; American College of Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting Abstracts Committee; and NCI/Radiosurgery Society GRID-Lattice-Microbeam-Flash Radiotherapy Clinical Working Group. He is Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Palliative Medicine.