Task Force

Lawrence D. Wagman, MD, is currently the regional medical director and surgical oncologist for the City of Hope Inland Empire Program. This follows a 10-year hiatus from City of Hope when he served as executive medical director for the Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California (2008-2018). During that time, Dr. Wagman opened an independent surgical oncology practice that focused primarily on hepatopancreaticobiliary (70 percent), gastric, sarcoma, melanoma, and breast cancers.

Previously, during his initial 20-year experience at City of Hope, Dr. Wagman served as the chair of surgery, director of the surgical oncology training program, institutional and national cooperative group principal investigator for many clinical trials, and led a basic science laboratory investigating targetable receptors and liver regeneration.

Dr. Wagman has authored numerous peer-reviewed surgical oncology publications, guest edited Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America twice, and edited Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach.