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David S. Rosenthal, M.D., Past President, American Cancer Society, is Director of Harvard University Health Services and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rosenthal also serves as a senior physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. He is the Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene at Harvard University.

A graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Rosenthal received his degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts in 1963. After an internship and residency with Tufts Medical Service, Boston City Hospital, Dr. Rosenthal was named senior assistant resident at Beth Israel Hospital.

At the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Rosenthal directed the Clinical Division of Hematology from 1978 - 1990.

Since 1990, Dr. Rosenthal has been the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Harvard University Health Service, coordinating the care and management of 35,000 members of the Harvard University community, in a group practice, financed through prepayment. The University Health Services focuses considerable attention on the patient/physician relationship, individualized services, and researches better ways to measure the quality of the care delivered.

Dr. Rosenthal has been extensively involved as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society. He is past president and a current representative of the New England Division Board of Directors. Dr. Rosenthal was Chairperson of the Massachusetts Coalition for a Healthy Future/ Tobacco Free Mass.

In June of 2000, Dr. Rosenthal was named medical director of the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Rosenthal said the mission of the center, named after the civil rights activist who succumbed to cancer, is to integrate complementary therapies with conventional cancer treatments. In 2004-2005 he was President of the Society for Integrative Oncology. Dr. Rosenthal served as the Secretary Treasurer for Tufts Medical Alumni Association (TMAA) in 2008, the Vice President of TMAA in 2009, and became President in 2010.