Ronald Levy, MD, is a professor of medicine and the chief of the division of oncology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the Robert K. Summy and Helen K. Summy Professor at Stanford as well as the Frank and Else Schilling American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor. Dr. Levy earned his AB at Harvard University, and his MD at Stanford. He conducted his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was a clinical associate in the immunology branch of the National Cancer Institute, and served fellowships in the department of oncology at Stanford and the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, the department of chemical immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Dr. Levy serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Board of Directors of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund, the Conflict of Interest Committee for Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Member Research Council of the American Cancer Society. He is a frequent lecturer and has written more than 250 publications.