Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Southern California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jacob Thomas, MD is an assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Keck Medical Center of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is currently serving as the Service Chief of Medical Oncology at LAC+USC Medical Center, the Chair of the Phase I Committee, and is a voting member of the Clinical Investigations Committee (CIC) at USC. He is an active clinical investigator and has a passion for novel drug development for patients with advanced solid tumor malignancies, with a focus on patients with head and neck cancer. He is the site principal investigator (PI) for numerous early phase therapeutic clinical trials at USC. He has published on drug development and presented findings at many national conferences. He was awarded a grant from the NIH to conduct a phase 2 trial of a novel drug combination in head and neck cancer that will accrue patients nationally through the ETCTN. He is also working to improve accrual of racial and ethnic minority groups to clinical trials in order to provide increased access to novel therapeutics to all patients.
