William Dale, MD, PhD, is the Arthur M. Coppola Family Chair in supportive care medicine. He
completed his medical and graduate school training at the University of Chicago and his residency in internal medicine and fellowship training in geriatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a board-certified geriatrician and palliative medicine physician with a doctorate in health policy.
Dr. Dale has devoted his career to the care of older adults with cancer. In 2006, he established the Specialized Oncology Care & Research in the Elderly (SOCARE) Clinic at the University of Chicago, which offers interdisciplinary, individualized, and integrated treatment to optimize quality of life for older cancer patients.
He has over 100 publications on medical decision-making, behavioral economics, quality of life, and frailty evaluation in older adults, primarily those with cancer. He has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, the John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Foundation of Informed Medical Decision-Making, among others. He is a co-investigator for the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a national survey and biomeasure collection on the health, well-being, and social life of over 3,000 older adults.