Selwyn Vickers

Selwyn Vickers, MD, is President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is an internationally recognized pancreatic cancer surgeon and researcher, and pioneer in health disparities research.

Dr. Vickers came to Sloan Kettering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was a faculty member earlier in his career before leaving to become the Jay Phillips Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He returned to Birmingham to become Senior Vice President of Medicine and Dean of the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, one of the largest public academic medical centers in the United States, before rising to the position of CEO of the UAB Health System.

He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. He has served on the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Board of Trustees and the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees. Additionally, he has served as President of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the Southern Surgical Association. Dr. Vickers is the immediate Past President of the American Surgical Association.

Dr. Vickers earned baccalaureate and medical degrees and completed his surgical training, including a chief residency and surgical oncology fellowship, at Johns Hopkins University. He completed two postgraduate research fellowships with the National Institutes of Health and international surgical training at John Radcliffe Hospital of Oxford University, England.