Dr. June M. McKoy is a nationally known expert in Geriatrics and Geriatric Oncology research. Her clinical work and her research investigations prioritize treatment, tailor care, and focus on improving equitable health outcomes for older adults living with cancer.

Dr. McKoy is the former program director for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship and she co-directed the now defunct Geriatric Oncology fellowship program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

She brings more than 15 years of experience as a Board Certified academic geriatrician, a health services and clinical cancer researcher, a health policy expert, and a mentor and sponsor to students at all stages of the Medicine journey. Dr McKoy founded the Senior Oncology Outcomes Advocacy and Research (SOAR) Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center to provide comprehensive cancer care for older adults. 

Her NIH funded primary research foci are in the areas of cancer survivorship, cancer pharmacoeconomics, comparative effectiveness analyses, HIV and cancer, cancer disparities, and adverse cancer drug reactions in older individuals.

Dr. McKoy's work has been consistently funded through the NIH: an administrative supplement on the Lurie Cancer Center's P30 center grant, a KOI from the NCI, a UO1, and a NCI ARRA supplement on the KO1. She has also been a co-investigator on three R21s, three R01s, two RO3s, a U54, and a P30 Pepper Center Core grant.

Dr. McKoy has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals.