About Richard Penson, MBBS
Dr. Penson came from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1997 and is Clinical Director of Medical Gynecologic Oncology. His practice is devoted almost exclusively to gynecologic oncology with the majority of patients having ovarian cancer. Dr. Penson attends on the Bigelow General Medical Service at Mass General, sits on the national Gynecologic Oncology Group (NRG GOG) committees for ovarian cancer, and quality of life research, and the NCCN Ovarian Committee. Dr. Penson serves as the chairman for panels C and F of the Institutional Review Board of Dana-Farber/Mass General Brigham CancerCare.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Gynecologic oncology
- Novel therapeutics
- Psychosocial Oncology
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- French
Locations
Mass General Cancer Center: Hematology Oncology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-4800
Martha's Vineyard Hospital
1 Hospital Rd.
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557
Phone: 508-957-0119
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
57 Prospect St.
Nantucket, MA 02554
Phone: 508-825-8190
Fax: 508-325-8558
Medical Education
- MD, Royal College of Physicians
- MBBS, St Bart's
- Residency, London & Guy's Hospital
- Residency, St. Bartholomew's Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, St Bartholomew's Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Dr. Penson takes a very active role in coordinating the investigation of novel agents and treatment strategies in ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital. Leading or actively participating in the design, conduct and analysis of multiple clinical trials, with approximately 1/4 of his patients treated on therapeutic clinical trials.
Publications
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>110 publications available @ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Exceptional
Excellent experience. Have not had any problems or issues with my visits. Appreciate the level of professionalism,knowledge and caring attitude of all I encountered!
Dr Penson Is always available when I need him.
I wish that they remind us as a patient about what we need to do as far as like tasting, as far as the medication that we take, if we need anything else. Lately, I haven't been asked about it, and I would prefer that they remind us, you know, what we have to do next. Thank you.
I found Dr. Penson to be extremely kind, compassionate and knowledgeable. I felt very comfortable with his care and recommendations.
Informative, professional, respectful
That Dr. Penson is one of the most caring and knowledgeable physicians in the department.
Dr Penson was very up to date on my treatment as this was his first time meeting me. He had talked with [redacted] and had a summary sheet which he referred to and wrote down more comments. I appreciated him doing that. We learned a lot about the tumor and also about ways to help lessen the side effects that I still have. [redacted] This was such ... Read More
professional, knowledgeable and kind
I can only be thankful to the hospital for its commitment. They were very professional with my mom and with me as well. I'm also a patient at the hospital. The entire staff, in general, the nurses, the doctors, the attendants... This is a hospital that I will recommend to everyone. I always say good things about it, they leave nothing to be ... Read More