Faculty

BC Cancer - Vancouver has over 40 subspecialized medical oncologists with academic appointments at the University of British Columbia and additional privileges at Vancouver General Hospital.

Medical staff

Each medical oncologist has some combination of patient care, clinical research (including our drug development program Phase I), teaching and administration responsibilities.

Medical Staff

Medical Oncologists:

Brandon Bernard
Nicole Chau
Kim Chi - Chief Medical Officer, BC Cancer
Stephen Chia - UBC Division Head
Janine Davies
Yvette Drew
Bernie Eigl
Jamie Feng
Alina Gerrie
Karamjit Gill
Sharlene Gill
Cheryl Ho - Program Director (fellows)
Emily Jackson
Daniel Khalaf
Christian Kollmannsberger - Professional Practice Leader, BC Cancer
Janessa Laskin
Nathalie LeVasseur
Howard Lim
Caroline Lohrisch
Jonathan Loree
Caroline Mariano
Corinne Maurice Dror
Barbara Melosky
Corey Metcalf
Zahi Mitri
Lucia Nappi
Gary Pansegrau
Vincent Poon
Dan Renouf - Executive Medical Director, BC Cancer - Vancouver
Kerry Savage
Laurie Sehn
Christine Simmons - Program Director (residents)
Tamara Shenkier
Alannah Smrke
Maryam Soleimani
Sophie Sun
Rebecca Harrison
Anna Tinker
Christopher Venner
Diego Villa
Ying Wang
Alison Weppler

Dermatologists:

Jan Dutz
Vincent Ho
Harvey Lui
Youwen Zhou

Pain & Symptom Management and Palliative Care

Pippa Hawley - Palliative Medicine Subspecialist, Internal Medicine Specialist
Julia Ridley - Palliative Medicine Subspecialist, Family Medicine
Haseena Majeed
Siobhan Ma
Emily Harrison
Dilshaan Panjwani

General Practitioners in Oncology (Clinical Associates):

David Calverley
Sherry Chan
Azadeh Arjmandi
Mary Georgillas
Alzate Gomez
Jessica Leung
Peter Pavlovich
Aaron Pelman
Colin Siu
Cristina AlzateGomez
Linda Xuan Wang
Anthony Chan
Satpal Dhillon

Neuro-oncologist:

Rebecca Harrison
Manik Chahal

Training committee

Residency Training Program Committee

Dr Christine Simmons is the Program Director of the Medical Oncology Training Program of BC. The program director chairs the residency training program committee meetings which includes representatives from other BC Cancer centres. The committee meets quarterly.

Program Committee Members:

Christine Simmons - Vancouver Centre
David Scott - Vancouver Ce
Diego Villa - Vancouver Centre
Stephen Chia - Vancouver Centre
Caroline Lohrisch - Vancouver Centre
Alina Gerrie - Vancouver Centre
Alannah Smrke - Vancouver Centre
Vincent Poon - Vancouver Centre
Peter Pavlovich - Vancouver Centre
Sherry Chan - Vancouver Centre
Suzana Gilmour - Abbotsford Centre
Krista Noonan - Fraser Valley Centre
Jeffrey Sulpher - Centre for the Southern Interior
Doran Ksienski - Vancouver Island Centre

Affiliations

In addition to full-time staff, BC Cancer has a large consulting staff. Our academic and clinical activities are closely linked with the Division of Radiation Oncology (and their training program), the Department of Medicine (particularly the Division of Hematology), the Department of Surgery (including Gyneoncology), the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Department of Diagnostic Imaging.

The 800 bed Vancouver General Hospital is adjacent to BC Cancer, Vancouver Centre, and is one of the central clinical teaching hospitals for UBC.

BC Cancer's Research Centre houses over 13 broad research areas and is located across the street from the Vancouver Centre.

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