Speakers
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Dr Eric ChenDr. Eric Chen is a medical oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Center. He specializes in the systemic treatment of GI cancers. He participates in many clinical trials of new agents and treatment strategies in GI cancers.
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Dr Sharlene GillDr. Sharlene Gill is a Professor of Medicine at the University of GI malignancies at BC Cancer – Vancouver. She received a Bachelors of Science in Pharmacy and an MD from the University of British Columbia in 1996 followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Dr. Gill subsequently completed a fellowship in Gl Oncology at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) and a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2017, she completed an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina. She is actively engaged in education and research, with over 120 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters to her credit. Dr. Gill serves as the Chair of the CCTG GI Site Committee and Chair of the UBC Department of Medicine Mentoring Committee. She is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Oncology and is the President of the Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists.
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Dr. Ronald Burkes - Moderator
Dr. Ron Burkes is Professor of Medicine at The University of Toronto and staff medical oncologist at Mount Sinai Hospital/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/University Health Network in Toronto. He was on the medical oncology training committee for the University of Toronto for 23 years and the program director for the medical oncology training program from 1996 to 2005 during which time he introduced the academic half day, the longitudinal clinic experience, the annual medical oncology research day and the staff medical oncology outstanding teaching awards. He was also the director of the Clinical Teaching Unit at the PMCC from 1999 to 2005 and established the teaching curriculum for the internal medicine residents rotating through the PMCC. He is now the Medical Oncology Mentorship Facilitator for the Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto.
He has won numerous teaching awards including Departmental and University wide awards on 18 occasions, the Anderson Award in Program Development and the Hasselback Teaching Award at PMCC. He has presented at many local, provincial, national and international meetings.
His research interests include lung and GI malignancies with a primary interest in lung, colorectal and gastric cancers. He has numerous publications including 126 peer reviewed, 154 non-peer reviewed and 2 book chapters.
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Shaniah Leduc
Shaniah Leduc is an oncology consultant that focuses on strategic development of programs in precision oncology. As a consultant she brings 28 years of clinical nurse and research experience combined with commercial oncology experience to science-based academic programs, industry, not-for-profit organizations and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) to support precision oncology initiatives available in Canada. Shaniah is also co-founder of OncoHelix, a Canadian-based molecular diagnostics laboratory services company that provides comprehensive genomic profiling to researchers, public health care authorities, industry sponsors and direct-pay parties.