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Stephen Hahn
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Hahn in 2019
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| 24th Commissioner of Food and Drugs | |
| In office December 17, 2019 – January 20, 2021 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Brett Giroir (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Janet Woodcock (acting) Robert Califf |
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| Born | January 22, 1960 |
| Education | Rice University (BA) Temple University (MD) |
Stephen Michael Hahn (born January 22, 1960) is an American physician who served as the commissioner of food and drugs from 2019 to 2021. Before becoming commissioner, he was an oncologist serving as chief medical executive of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2021, he became chief medical officer at Flagship Pioneering, the venture capital firm that launched Moderna.
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Education
Hahn received a BA in Biology from Rice University in 1980, and an MD from Temple University in 1984. After graduating from medical school, Hahn completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine where he eventually served as chief resident before embarking on a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Career
After completing his fellowship, Hahn worked as a radiation oncologist in Santa Rosa, California. He was then recruited by his mentor, Eli J. Glatstein to complete a separate residency in radiation oncology at the NIH between 1991 and 1994, where he eventually attained the rank of commander in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps between 1989 and 1995. During the period of 1993–1999, he served as chief of NCI's Prostate Cancer Clinic in the Clinical Pharmacology Branch.
In 1996, Hahn joined the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine as a radiation and medical oncologist as well as a researcher funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As eventual Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Penn and Principal Investigator of National Cancer Institute grants, Hahn led the expansion of the Department's research base. In 2013, he was awarded status as a fellow in the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). He then held the Department of Radiation Oncology's fourth endowed Henry Pancoast Professorship as Department Chair until 2014.[1] During that time, Hahn assisted with the Department's scandal involving brachytherapy at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Philadelphia, which was staffed with University of Pennsylvania faculty, all while securing increased research funding during a transition period in 2007-08 into the new Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine Robert's Proton Center, which remains the largest proton therapy center associated with a university teaching hospital in the world. Hahn remains Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, and Radiation Oncology.
In 2015, Hahn became the chair of radiation oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he oversaw the Departments of Clinical Radiation Oncology, Radiation Physics, and Radiation Biology. In 2018, Hahn was appointed as the Chief Medical Executive of MD Anderson Cancer Center. During this period as an active clinician, Hahn specialized in treating thoracic, sarcomatous, and genitourinary cancers, as well as the use of photodynamic therapy for the treatment of pre-invasive and invasive malignancies.
Memberships
Hahn is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society for Radiation Oncology, Radiation Research Society, American Society of Photobiology, American Association for Cancer Research, and the University of Pennsylvania's John Morgan Society.
Personal life
Hahn has been married for more than 30 years and has four children.
