Sioux Falls, SD
Dr. Loren Tschetter currently serves as Chair of the Sanford IRB and has extensive audit experience with NCCTG, ECOG, NSABP and the Coalition of Cooperative Cancer Groups. Dr. Tschetter served on many national research-based committees, with the ultimate goal of providing patients access to state-of-the-art cancer care at the local level.
Dr. Tschetter received his MD from the University of Kansas Medical School, and completed his internship at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas before beginning a fellowship in internal medicine and hematology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Tschetter was a founding member of the North Central Cancer Treatment Group in 1977. As a founder of the Sioux Community Cancer Consortium in 1983, Dr. Tschetter is responsible for bringing two National Cancer Institute programs to Sanford Health: the Community Clinical Oncology Program, concentrating upon clinical trials and the National Cancer Institute's Community Cancer Centers Program, focusing on developing advanced cancer care programs in community cancer centers. He also helped establish an Institutional Review Board to ensure patient consent was given prior to participating in the trials, and that the trials were ethical and conducted according to national regulations.
In 2012, Dr. Tschetter received the National Cancer Institutes 2012 Harry Hynes Award, established to recognize and acknowledge outstanding commitment by community investigators to clinical research.