Richard T. Penson

Dr. Penson is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Clinical Director of Medical Gynecologic Medical Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Penson came from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, in 1997 and his practice is devoted almost exclusively to Gynecologic Oncology, although he attends on the Bigelow General Medical Service at Mass General and does general oncology on Martha’s Vineyard. Dr. Penson served in multiple leadership positions and sits on the national NRG (Gynecologic Oncology Group) committees for ovarian cancer and quality of life research, and the NCCN Ovarian Committee. Dr. Penson is one of the chairs of the Institutional Review Board of Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, and teaches Harvard medical students on the Practice of Medicine course.