Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Paul Meyers is Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He trained in pediatrics at the Mount Sinai Hospital. He trained in pediatric hematology/oncology at the Cornell University Medical College and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Since 1979 he has been member of the faculty at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. His research has focused on treatments for sarcomas of children and young adults. He served as the vice chair and chair of the Bone Sarcoma Strategy Group for the Children’s Oncology Group from 1991-2001. He served as principal investigator on national clinical trials in osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma conducted by the pediatric cooperative groups. He has been a member of the Pediatric Board of the National Cancer Institute Physician Data Query since 2001. He served on Subcommittee H of the National Cancer Institute from 2009-2009. He served as president of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society in 2008.