Posted: August 2018
Julie R. Brahmer, MD, MSc, director of thoracic oncology program and professor of oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, has been recognized as 2018 Oncologist of The Year by Continental Who’s Who, a business publisher. Dr. Brahmer directs the Kimmel Cancer Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus and is co-principal investigator on Johns Hopkins’ National Clinical Trials Network. During the course of her career, Dr. Brahmer has attained expertise in the clinical investigation of lung cancer, and mesothelioma, and is considered one of the world’s leading experts on immunotherapy. An IASLC Board member, Dr. Brahmer is also founding board member for the National Lung Cancer Partnership, and she is on the Medical Advisory Board of the Lung Cancer Research Fund and LUNGevity.