Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Dr. Glenn Lesser MD, FACP, is the inaugural Louise McMichael Miracle Professor and Associate Chief in the section on Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery and Public Health Sciences. He completed his undergraduate education at Duke University, received his MD from the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and finished his Internal Medicine residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in 1991. He completed a Fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in 1994 and returned to Wake Forest as the Director of Medical Neuro-Oncology in 1995. Dr. Lesser is the Co-Program leader of the Neuro-Oncology Research Program of the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Director of Medical Neuro-Oncology, and the contact MPI of the Wake Forest NCORP Research Base, one of only two NCI-funded Cancer Center NCORP Research Bases in the country. He is also the re-elected co-chair of the NCI Symptom Management and Quality of Life Steering Committee, the Neuro-Oncology section editor of Current Treatment Options in Oncology and a member of the editorial board of Neuro-Oncology Practice. He is a past recipient of the Wake Forest Byrum Distinguished Faculty Mentor award and he received the 2020 Wake Forest School of Medicine Established Faculty Investigator in Clinical Research award. His clinical and research interests include the development of novel therapeutic agents to treat adult malignant brain tumors and symptom management issues experienced by patients with cancer.
