Mr. Stone leads City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S., which provided care to more than 168,000 patients in 2025 across California, Georgia, Illinois and Arizona through a workforce of nearly 14,000 employees, including more than 700 physicians and 1,900 scientists and researchers. An independent biomedical, treatment and academic center, City of Hope focuses on basic and clinical research in cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and other chronic, life-threatening diseases. City of Hope holds the highest possible rating from the National Cancer Institute, placing it among the top tier of the nation’s 57 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers. Mr. Stone has championed policy initiatives such as the California Cancer Care Equity Act, which expanded access to genomic testing, precision medicine and clinical trials for 15 million Medi-Cal patients, and has grown the organization’s department of supportive care medicine into one of the largest programs of its kind in the country. In the past year, he launched a national clinical trials model enabling rapid, simultaneous trial openings across multiple states and oversaw the opening of Orange County’s only cancer specialty hospital.
