Ruth M. O'Regan, M.D.

Professional Background

Dr. Ruth O’Regan, M.D., is the Chair of Medicine and Charles A. Dewey Professor at the University of Rochester. She additionally serves as Physician-in-Chief of Strong Memorial Hospital and as Associate Director of Education and Mentoring at the Wilmot Cancer Institute at University of Rochester.

She previously was Division Chief of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care in the Department of Medicine and as Deputy Director at the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH). She served as Chief Scientific officer of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium guiding the research and scientific mission of the consortium and as Vice-Chair of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Board of Directors. Prior to joining the faculty at UWSMPH she was Director of the Glenn Family Breast Cancer Program at the Winship Cancer Institute and as Vice-Chair for Education and Director of the Hematology Oncology Fellowship program in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University. She additionally served as Chief of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Dr. O’Regan earned her Medical Degree from University College, Dublin, Ireland and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and her Hematology/Oncology fellowship at Northwestern University.

Her research program focuses on identifying mechanisms of resistance to breast-cancer therapies and on the development of new therapies with a specific focus on triple negative breast cancer.