Lynn Mara Schuchter, M.D.
Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Professor of Clinical Oncology
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Internal Advisory Board Member, University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Internal Advisory Board Member , Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center (PAIR)
Director, Tara Miller Melanoma Center, Abramson Cancer Center
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Division of Hematology Oncology
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
3rd Floor, South Pavilion
Office #3-300
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
3rd Floor, South Pavilion
Office #3-300
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-3011
Education:
B.S.
University of Michigan, 1978.
M.D.
Chicago Medical School, 1982.
Permanent linkB.S.
University of Michigan, 1978.
M.D.
Chicago Medical School, 1982.
Selected Publications
Sargen MR, Barnhill RL, Elder DE, Swetter SM, Prieto VG, Ko JS, Bahrami A, Gerami P, Karunamurthy A, Pappo AS, Schuchter LM, LeBoit PE, Yeh I, Kirkwood JM, Jen M, Dunkel IJ, Durham MM, Christison-Lagay ER, Austin MT, Aldrink JH, Mehrhoff C, Hawryluk EB, Chu EY, Busam KJ, Sondak V, Messina J, Puig S, Colebatch AJ, Coughlin CC, Berrebi KG, Laetsch TW, Mitchell SG, Seynnaeve B.J : Evaluation and Surgical Management of Pediatric Cutaneous Melanoma and Atypical Spitz and Non-Spitz Melanocytic Tumors (Melanocytomas): A Report From Children's Oncology Group. Clin Oncol. October 2024.Ma KL, Mitchell TC, Dougher M, Sharon CE, Tortorello GN, Elder DE, Morgan EE, Gimotty PA, Huang AC, Amaravadi RK, Schuchter LM, Flowers A, Miura JT, Karakousis GC, Xu X.: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in necrotic tumors after melanoma neoadjuvant anti-PD1 therapy correlate with pathological response and recurrence-free survival. Clin Cancer Res September 2024.
Wang K, Coutifaris P, Brocks D, Wang G, Azar T, Solis S, Nandi A, Anderson S, Han N, Manne S, Kiner E, Sachar C, Lucas M, George S, Yan PK, Kier MW, Laughlin AI, Kothari S, Giles J, Mathew D, Ghinnagow R, Alanio C, Flowers A, Xu W, Tenney DJ, Xu X, Amaravadi RK, Karakousis GC, Schuchter LM, Buggert M, Oldridge D, Minn AJ, Blank C, Weber JS, Mitchell TC, Farwell MD, Herati RS, Huang AC: Combination anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 therapy generates waves of clonal responses that include progenitor-exhausted CD8+ T cells. Cancer Cell August 2024.
Sharon CE, Tortorello GN, Ma KL, Huang AC, Xu X, Giles LR, McGettigan S, Kreider K, Schuchter LM, Mathew AJ, Amaravadi RK, Gimotty PA, Miura JT, Karakousis GC, Mitchell TC: Corrigendum to 'Long-term outcomes to neoadjuvant pembrolizumab based on pathological response for patients with resectable stage III/IV cutaneous melanoma': [Annals of Oncology 34 (2023) 806-812] Ann Oncol August 2024.
Takvorian SU, Gabriel P, Wileyto EP, Blumenthal D, Tejada S, Clifton ABW, Asch DA, Buttenheim AM, Rendle KA, Shelton RC, Chaiyachati KH, Fayanju OM, Ware S, Schuchter LM, Kumar P, Salam T, Lieberman A, Ragusano D, Bauer AM, Scott CA, Shulman LN, Schnoll R, Beidas RS, Bekelman JE, Parikh RB: Clinician- and Patient-Directed Communication Strategies for Patients With Cancer at High Mortality Risk: A Cluster Randomized Trial. JAMA Network Open July 2024.
Anderson TM, Chang BH, Huang AC, Xu X, Yoon D, Shang CG, Mick R, Schubert E, McGettigan S, Kreider K, Xu W, Wherry EJ, Schuchter LM, Amaravadi RK, Mitchell TC, Farwell MD: FDG PET/CT Imaging 1 Week after a Single Dose of Pembrolizumab Predicts Treatment Response in Patients with Advanced Melanoma. Clin Cancer Res May 2024.
Ravi B Parikh, Emily Schriver, William J Ferrell, Jonathan Wakim, Joelle Williamson, Neda Khan, Michael Kopinsky, Mohan Balachandran, Peter E Gabriel, Lynn M Schuchter, Mitesh S Patel, Lawrence N Shulman, Christopher R Manz : Remote Patient-Reported Outcomes and Activity Monitoring to Improve Patient-Clinician Communication Regarding Symptoms and Functional Status: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JCO Oncol Pract October 2023.
Zhong W, Lu Y, Han X, Yang J, Qin Z, Zhang W, Yu Z, Wu B, Liu S, Xu W, Zheng C, Schuchter LM, Karakousis GC, Mitchell TC, Amaravadi R, Flowers AJ, Gimotty PA, Xiao M, Mills G, Herlyn M, Dong H, Mitchell MJ, Kim J, Xu X, Guo W: Upregulation of exosome secretion from tumor-associated macrophages plays a key role in the suppression of anti-tumor immunity. Cell Rep. October 2023.
Sarah A Weiss, Mario Sznol, Montaser Shaheen, Miguel-Angel Berciano-Guerrero, Eva Muñoz-Couselo, Delvys Rodríguez-Abreu, Valentina Boni, Lynn M Schuchter, Maria Gonzalez Cao, Ana Arance Fernandez, Wei Wei, Apar Kishor Ganti, Ralph J Hauke, Alfonso Berrocal, Nicholas O Iannotti, Frank J Hsu, Harriet M Kluge: A Phase II Trial of the CD40 Agonist Sotigalimab (APX005M) in Combination with Nivolumab in Subjects with Metastatic Melanoma with Disease Progression on Anti-PD-1. Clin Cancer Res August 2023.
Lingling Ou, Shujing Liu, Huaishan Wang, Yeye Guo, Lei Guan, Longbin Shen, Ruhui Luo, David E Elder, Alexander C Huang, Giorgos Karakousis, John Miura, Tara Mitchell, Lynn Schuchter, Ravi Amaravadi, Ahron Flowers, Haiwei Mou, Fan Yi, Wei Guo, Jina Ko, Qing Chen, Bin Tian, Meenhard Herlyn, Xiaowei Xu : Patient-derived melanoma organoid models facilitate the assessment of immunotherapies. EBioMedicine June 2023.