Gregory C. Kane, M.D., MACP
Dr. Kane is the Jane and Leonard Korman Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, a position he has held since 2011. For fourteen years, he served as Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and he previously served as Interim Division Director of Pulmonary/Critical Care from 2008 through 2010.
A national leader in the fields of Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care, and Medical Education, Dr. Kane has served the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) on the Critical Care Test and Policy Committee (1996-2006), and the ABIM Hospitalist Medicine Test Committee helping develop the very first examination for recertification in Hospital Medicine. He was elected to a three-year term on the Council of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) in 2006 and has served as the Association's President from 2013-2014. He has also served as Treasurer of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, the leading organization of academic physicians nationally representing Chairs of Medicine, Program Directors, Clerkship Directors, Sub-specialty Professors, and Administrators within Departments of Medicine. Dr. Kane is a former Governor and a current lifetime Master of the American College of Physicians, representing Pennsylvania. In 2019, he was elected Treasurer of the ACP for three terms as a volunteer leader of the American College of Physicians, the largest single-specialty medical society in the US.
Dr. Kane has authored more than 105 original articles, which have appeared in Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, CHEST, JAMA, BMC Cancer, Respiratory Medicine, Clinical Lung Cancer and the American Journal of Medicine. His published work spans a broad diversity of clinical and medical education topics, including lung cancer, lung cancer screening, pulmonary embolism, asthma, social determinants of the health physician workforce, and graduate medical education policy. His landmark book entitled: Lung Cancer Screening- A Population Approach has been praised as outlining the path to transform lung cancer screening to serve all populations using a community-based strategy. Dr. Kane's teaching expertise has been recognized through the receipt of numerous teaching awards, including the Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 1997, Dr. Kane was honored with the presentation of his portrait by the senior class at Jefferson Medical College. In 2011, he was recognized nationally by receiving the Parker J. Palmer "Courage to Teach" award from the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. He was the invited speaker for incoming students of SKMC at the White Coat Ceremony in 2010. In 2021 and 2022, he was selected to present the clinician’s perspective to the incoming students at SKMC, a remarkable honor. Twice, he was invited to speak to graduating SKMC students at Class Day in 1998 and 2017; this year he was asked to lead the graduates in the recitation of the Hippocratic Oath at Graduation 2024- Jefferson’s 200th year.
Dr. Kane has served as Course Director and/or Co-Director for Jefferson’s Annual Lung Cancer Symposium, hosting more than 200 physicians and healthcare professionals each year in Philadelphia since 2016. He has lectured across 18 states and Canada and has been a Visiting Professor in China and Japan.
At Jefferson, he has led the largest academic Department since assuming the role of interim chair in 2011. Dr. Kane is most proud of the talented residents and fellows who have chosen Jefferson’s post-graduate training programs and the amazing faculty in the Department of Medicine who provide outstanding patient care, high-level teaching, community-based program innovations, and innovative research.