Dr. Cassileth is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair and Chief of the Integrative Medicine department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)in New York City. She has an extensive medical leadership career and is a foremost authority on evidence-based complementary therapies in oncology. She is a staunch opponent to "cancer quackery" Her work includes 180 publications in the medical literature, 46 medical textbook chapters, 11 authored books, and 12 publications for physicians, patients and families. She was a founding member of the Advisory Council to the U.S. National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, now the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She is Founding President of the Society for Integrative Oncology and has given multiple invited lectures around the world. Since joining MSKCC in 1999, Dr. Cassileth has established prototypic research, education and clinical programs in Integrative Medicine.