Stanley R. Hamilton

Stanley R. Hamilton, MD, FCAP, AGAF, is a digestive system and molecular pathologist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the City of Hope National Medical Center since 2000. A native of Indiana, Dr. Hamilton received his medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine, followed by internship and residency in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hosptial in Baltimore and a fellowship at St. Mark’s Hospital in London. He remained at Johns Hopkins as a faculty member until he was recruited to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1998 as Professor and Head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is internationally known as an expert in gastrointestinal pathology with focus on colorectal cancer. Stanley R. Hamilton, M.D., is one of the premier pathologists of his generation and a nationally known leader who built the pathology and laboratory medicine department at MD Anderson Cancer Center into a world class facility. He now brings more than four decades of expertise to City of Hope as chair of the Department of Pathology. A native of Indiana, Dr. Hamilton received his medical degree at Indiana University, continued his training at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, then helped grow the Hopkins pathology department for the next 20 years before moving on to MD Anderson in 1998. Along the way he became nationally known as an expert in gastro-intestinal/colon cancer pathology. Dr. Hamilton is excited to join the City of Hope family, which he describes as “great people, all dedicated to the mission. It's a wonderful environment.” He plans to leverage the digital transformation now taking place in his field, bringing state-of-the-art pathology services to every patient at every City of Hope community practice site, while improving and enhancing the biomarker data used in clinical trials, and further integrating digital pathology into the overall informatics of the institution.