Shilpen Patel, MD, FACRO FASTRO
Dr. Shilpen Patel is a radiation oncologist who is a medical director at Genentech where he initially focused on breast cancer and immuno-oncology as now serving as the principal health equity inclusive research medical director. He also has an affiliate appointment as an associate professor in the UW Department of Global Health as well as an affiliate appointment in the Division of Public Health at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In addition, he continues to see patients in the Sutter Health System in the Bay Area.
He has been actively involved in nonprofit organizations including the American Medical Association (serving as chair of the young physician Section from 2 and as chair of the LGBTQ advisory Committee), being a board member with Equal Rights Washington where he served as chair from 2009-2011, served on the National LGBTQ Task Force (Co- Chair from 2013-2015 and Chair of the National Action Council 2017-2020), Phi Chi Medical Foundation (Chairman of the Executive Trustees), and served as Co-Chair of the board of Generations Aging with Pride. While on faculty at the University of Washington he served as the faculty advisor to Qmed and as the director of the LGBTQ Health Care Pathway.
He has over 70 peer reviewed publications and book chapters and has multiple awards to his name including being the youngest person to ever been given the FASTRO designation.