Vincent T. DeVita Jr., MD

Vincent T. DeVita Jr., MD, is a professor of medicine, epidemiology, and public health at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Cancer Program from 1980 to 1988. In 1988 he joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as physician in chief, and in 1993 he became director of the Yale Cancer Center.

At the NCI, he developed a cure for Hodgkin lymphoma with combination chemotherapy, proving that advanced cancers could be cured by drugs. He is a former president of the American Cancer Society and editor of Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, a textbook of cancer medicine.