Alan Solomon, MD

Dr. Solomon attended Bucknell University and Duke University School of Medicine. He did his post-graduate residency training in internal medicine, hematology, at Mt. Sinai and Montefiore Hospitals in New York City, and oncology and in clinical and basic research at the National Institutes of Health under a USPHS Special Fellowship at the Rockefeller University. Dr. Solomon is currently Professor of Medicine and Head, Human Immunology and Cancer Program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine-Knoxville.

Dr. Solomon was the recipient of a USPHS Career Development Award and research grants from the American Cancer Society, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and in 1992 was named American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor.

He has authored over 200 scientific publications and was a former member and chairman of the National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Cancer Program Project Review Committee and was a member of its Board of Scientific Counselors. Dr. Solomon serves on the University of Tennessee’s Board of Visitors for the College of Nursing and Department of Religious Studies. He has also been an active participant on community boards, including the Knoxville Museum of Art and the Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.