UC Davis' Comprehensive Cancer Center's 2023/2024 Distinguished Speakers in Oncology series features the following speakers. Scholars, staff, and faculty and community members are invited to register for the full series or for individual speakers.
Distinguished Speakers in Oncology are presented monthly on Tuesdays from noon to 1:00PM. All presentations are delivered in-person--at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center's Goodnight Auditorium--and online via Zoom unless otherwise noted. Lunch is provided for registered in-person attendees.
October 31, 2023
- Mark Gilbert, MD - Chief, Neuro-Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
November 28, 2023 (online only)
- Christopher Peters, FRCS (General Surgeon), PhD - Clinical Senior Lecturer, Consultant Upper GI and General Surgeon, Imperial College London
February 9, 2024 (online only) - Cancelled
- Robert Ferris, MD, PhD - Director, Hillman Cancer Center, Associate Vice Chancellor for Cancer Research, Co-Chair of the National Cancer Institute Head and Neck Steering Committee, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
February 27, 2024
- Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD - Regents Professor, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Research Member, Cancer Biology Program, Associate Director for Basic Sciences, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
March 26, 2024
- JoAnn Trejo, PhD, MBA - Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Assistant Vice Chancellor Health Sciences Faculty Affairs, Director, San Diego IRACDA Scholars Program, University of California, San Diego
April 30, 2024
- Michael Birrer, PhD, MD - Vice Chancellor and Director, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas
May 21, 2024
- Cigal Kadoch, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Institute Member and Epigenomics Program Co-Director, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
June 25, 2024
- Amy Cummings, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
