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Joseph Carver, MD is a senior medical advisor to ITA Partners.
Carver has been a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003. He also serves as the Senior Administrative Officer of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and is a member of the Division of Cardiology. He will continue to hold both of these positions while serving as the Chief of Staff of the Abramson Cancer Center.
Carver brings extensive administrative experience to the Abramson Cancer Center having served on the Board of Directors of numerous for-profit and non-profit organizations. He has served on the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s Nursing School and recently helped lead the Cancer Cardiovascular Survivors Guidelines Taskforce for the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Carver has authored more than 75 medical papers and monographs, and last year he received the Distinguished Teacher Award in Cardiology from the School of Medicine. His expertise in the treatment of cardiac disease during cancer therapy has won him national recognition.
Prior to his work at Penn, he was a Senior Corporate Medical Director at Aetna U.S. Healthcare where he was responsible for specialty care, disease management, and the National Medical Excellence Unit that coordinated all experimental and transplant care for 20 million members. During that time he was actively involved in having third party payers agree to pay for the routine costs of cancer clinical trials and served as the Co-chairperson of the New Jersey and Michigan Working Groups that led to a voluntary agreement by the insurers in those states to support cancer clinical trial participation.
He is the Founding Editor of the American Journal of Managed Care and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Disease Management and Journal of Interventional Cardiology.
Dr. Carver is a graduate of Temple University (AB) and Hahnemann University (MD) and completed his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. | 