Dr. Steven Sorscher is Medical Director, Oncology at Biotheranostics, Inc. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School where he also completed his residency in Internal Medicine. He completed his fellowship training in Hematology /Oncology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Over the past 35 years, Dr. Sorscher has held medical oncology community practice positions at the Gundersen Clinic in LaCrosse, WI and the Marshfield Clinic in Wausau, WI. He also held faculty appointments at UCSD, Duke University in Durham, NC, and Washington University in St. Louis. During the past eight years, Dr. Sorscher was a Professor of Medicine in the Oncology Division at the Wake Forest Medical School, in Winston-Salem, NC, followed by one year as the Medical Director, Oncology at Invitae, Corp. Dr. Sorscher has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications and four book chapters covering a wide range of topics including breast cancer and hereditary cancer syndromes.
Although the definition is evolving, truly personalized cancer care might be thought of as having four major pillars: interrogation of the cancer, predictive testing, inherited genes, and patient lifestyle, values and goals.