At the Harvard Medical School Skarin works in the Medical Oncology and Solid Tumor Oncology departments and focuses on thoracic cancer. His Medical Degree is from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he graduated in 1961. After graduation he continued his training in internal medicine at the Millard Fillmore Teaching Hospital located in Buffalo. Dr. Skarin then completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at Boston City Hospital. From there he joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in 1970. While there he was a clinical director of the Hematology Laboratory from 1970 to 1998 and Medical Director from 1975 to 2006.