Daniel Lage, Assistant Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center shared a post on LinkedIn:
“After two wonderful years at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I’m beginning a new chapter.
MSK is the most extraordinary place in the world to practice oncology – the mission, the science, the colleagues. I’m deeply grateful to the GU medical oncology team and to every patient who trusted me there.
Over the past two years, my friend and colleague Clay Ackerly in DC has referred me many of his primary care patients diagnosed with prostate cancer. What struck me wasn’t just the clinical collaboration – it was how powerful it felt to co-manage cancer as a chronic condition across both specialties.
If a patient’s hemoglobin A1c or creatinine were rising, Clay and I would sort out a plan together in minutes. If he wasn’t exercising – despite Level I evidence that exercise improves outcomes in men with prostate cancer on hormonal therapy – Clay would talk to him and get him into an exercise program.
So when Clay and Lucy McBride, MD invited me to join their practice, I knew it was exactly where I wanted to be in this next phase of my career. They’ve built something genuinely rare: a concierge primary care practice defined by intellectual rigor, deep patient relationships, and a belief that medicine should be proactive, personal, and honest.
As cancer becomes more treatable and our population ages against a growing oncology workforce shortage, I believe the future of cancer care requires deeper integration between oncology and primary care – spanning prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and end of life. The way cardiology and endocrinology gradually shared ground with primary care, oncology will follow. And that’s exactly where I want to practice and bring this vision to life.
I’ll be building a primary care practice focused on men’s health and integrated onco-primary care at Ackerly McBride Group, with oncology consultations and treatment to follow. The chance to meet patients earlier, focused on prevention and whole-person health, and to do it alongside the best primary care doctors I know – I couldn’t be more excited.
I’ll be taking a brief sabbatical to travel and spend time with family before settling in DC. Grateful for everything and everyone that brought me here – and ready for what’s next.
Accepting new patients in DC starting in August.”
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