Dr. Richard L. Schilsky is the Former EVP and Chief Medical Officer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Schilsky is an international expert in gastrointestinal malignancies and cancer pharmacology, having published more than 400 scientific articles, reviews, and commentaries. He has served on a number of peer review and advisory committees for the NCI including serving as a member and chair of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors and as a member of the Clinical and Translational Research Advisory Committee. He joined the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in 2013 as Chief Medical Officer after a nearly 30-year career at the University of Chicago Medicine, where he served as chief of hematology/ oncology in the Department of Medicine and the deputy director of the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Schilsky is the Principal Investigator of the ASCO Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) study and a former member and chair of the FDA Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee.