Jeffrey Vacirca, MD, FACP has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2024. Since 2008, Dr. Vacirca has served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of New York Cancer & Blood Specialists, a cancer care center specializing in hematology/oncology and medical oncology. Since 2011, he has served as President and Co-Founder of National Translational Research Group, a group focusing on non-clinical research, and, from 2012 to 2023, he served as a Medical Director and Strategic Advisor for the International Oncology Network specialty group at Amerisource Bergen, a pharmaceutical products company. Since 2018, he has served as the Medical Director of the Oncology Network Development at Mount Sinai Health Network and as an associate clinical professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. He served as Medical Director for the Long Island Association for AIDS Care from 2008 to 2024. Dr. Vacirca also serves on the boards of directors of privately held companies Annexus Health, OneOncology (where he was a co-founder) and PatientPoint.
Dr. Vacirca served as a director of Assertio Holdings, a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company, from July 2023 to November 2024, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company, from November 2018 to its July 2023 acquisition by Assertio, and BeyondSpring Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, from December 2020 to April 2022. Dr. Vacirca is the past president of the Community Oncology Alliance and continues to be a member of their executive committee. Dr. Vacirca also served on our Scientific Advisory Board from 2014 to 2020. He has also been part of early funding for various companies including Cedar, Thyme Care, and Sherpa Health.
Dr. Vacirca co-founded Odonate Therapeutics, a publicly held pharmaceutical company in 2016 and served as a director until September 2019. Dr. Vacirca is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York Cancer Foundation, which provides financial assistance to patients undergoing treatment for cancer.
Dr. Vacirca received a B.A. degree in human biology from the University at Albany and an M.D. degree from St. George’s University.