U-Z

Brad Urquhart

PhD. Associate Dean, Basic Medical Sciences Undergraduate Education, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. Associate Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Studying the mechanisms responsible for variation of response to medications in kidney disease.

Ted Vandenberg

MD; Oncology (Medical), SW Regional Cancer Program Systemic Therapy Lead; Member, Breast Cancer Disease Site Team MCC executive; Co-Chair Translational Breast Cancer Research Group; Clinical care; Clinical trials

Research Interests / Specializations: Translational research; Breast cancer; Treatment for metastatic breast cancer; Tumor biomarkers

Mark Vincent

Medical Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program. Professor of Oncology, Western University. Chairman and Member of Thoracic Multidisciplinary Team. Member of GI Multidisciplinary Team.

Research Interests / Specializations: Translational Research - Reversal of drug resistance.

Aaron Ward

PhD; Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics, BioMedical Engineering, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University. Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Novel methods of image registration; GU/Prostate, lung, CNS cancer, image-guided diagnosis and therapy: Translational research.

Stephen Welch

MD, FRCPC; Medical Director, Baines Cancer Clinical Research Unit; Chair, Division of Medical Oncology. Director, Baker Center for Pancreatic Cancer. Clinical Lead, Verspeeten Clinical Genome Centre. Medical Director, Canadian Cancer Trials Group. Medical Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre. Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical care of GI and GYN malignancies, clinical trials, investigational new drugs, personalized medicine, cancer genomics, pharmacogenomics, translational research.

Eric Winquist

MD. MSc. Oncology (Medical), Professor, Departments of Oncology, Surgery (Urology) and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery

Research Interests / Specializations: GU and Head & Neck cancer; Investigational new drug development; Translational research; Biomarkers.

Eugene Wong

PhD; Medical Biophysics, Oncology (Radiation), Physics & Astronomy,Medical Physicist

Research Interests / Specializations: Optimization of radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy; Translational research; GI cancer; Metastasis - detection and characterization; Cancer imaging, DCE-CT

John Yoo

MD. FRCSC. FACS. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Dean - Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. Professor, Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University. President - Canadian Association of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology. Executive Council Member - Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

Research Interests / Specializations: Head and Neck Cancer with emphasis in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. Reconstructive Surgery of the Head and Neck. Reconstruction of the Paralyzed Face.

Jawaid Younus

MD; Oncology (Medical). Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical care, translational research, breast cancer, clinical education tools, electronic device apps, Complementary Medicine and Supportive Care.

Edward Yu

Retired - MD. PhD. FRCPC. Radiation Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program. Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical Care: Thoraric and Breast Cancer. Research: Metastasis.

Greg Zaric

PhD; Professor, Ivey Business School; Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

Research Interests / Specializations: Health economics, pharmacoeconomics, cost effectiveness analysis, decision-analytics models, health care operations management, management science analytics. Editor-in-Chief of Health Care Management Science and a member of the Ontario Steering Committee for Cancer Drugs.

Qi Zhang

MBBS. PhD. FRCPC. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University. Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute. Pathologist, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical: neuropathology (surgical and autopsy) and anatomical pathology (GI tract). Research: epilepsy related neuropathological finding brain metastasis from systemic malignancy and neurodegenerative disease.

Xiao Zhen Zhou

MD. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Pin1 inhibitors to turn immunologically cold tumors hot for eradicating cancers

Terry Zwiep

MD. MSc. FRCSC. Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical and Research Interests: benign and malignant colorectal disease, quality improvement with a focus on pre-operative optimization.