Research Summary
My research focus is on the development of novel therapies for patients, as well as the assessment of novel imaging markers of prognosis and response to therapy. As program leader for the Neuro-Oncology Program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, my role is to provide the overall direction of the program and facilitate the interaction of the basic science and translational research programs with the clinical team to bring novel findings from the lab to the patient. I am the lead and contact PI for a P01 focused on integrating advances in physiologic and metabolic imaging with tissue biomarkers in order to optimize the management of patients with molecular subtypes of glioma. I am the overall Clinical Leader for the UCSF Brain SPORE grant as well as the Clinical Core Director and Co-PI of a SPORE project that addresses the evaluation of steady and dynamic metabolic imaging in glioblastoma.
Research Funding
September 20, 2002 - August 31, 2023 - Brain Tumor SPORE Grant, Co-Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: P50CA097257
July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2013 - Noninvasive Metabolic Signatures to Improve Management of Molecular Subtypes of Glioma, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: P01CA118816
March 25, 1994 - December 31, 2009 - NABTC Member Intitution Grant (UCSF Project Leader), Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: U01CA062422
December 1, 1974 - September 29, 2006 - General Clinical Research Center, Co-Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NCRR, Sponsor Award ID: M01RR000079
Education
University of British Columbia, 1981
University of British Columbia, MD, 1985, Medicine
Pasqua Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Internship, 1985-1986
Plains Health Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan, Residency, 1986-1987
Toronto General Hospital, U of Toronto, Ontario, Residency, 1987-1989
Princess Margaret Hospital, U of Toronto, Ontario, Residency, 1989-1991
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Canada, FRCPS, 1990, Internal Medicine
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Canada, FRCPS, 1991, Medical Oncology