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| NCIC Clinical Trials Group / Cancer Clinical Trials Faculty Biographies |
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| Janet Dancey, MD, FRCP(C) |
Director |
| Prior to becoming Director of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group on September 1, 2014, Dr. Dancey was Director, Translational Research - Clinical at CTG. She is also Scientific Director of the Canadian Cancer Clinical Trials Network and Director of the High Impact Clinical Trials Program at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Prior to joining the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, Dr. Dancey was Senior Clinical Investigator in the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program at the US National Cancer Institute and then Associate Chief of the Investigational Drug Branch. Dr. Dancey received her MD from the University of Ottawa and completed her residency training in internal medicine and medical oncology at the University of Toronto. In 1994-95, she was a research fellow with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group and continued her fellowship training at the Institut Gustave Roussy in France. Dr. Dancey has special expertise in new anti-cancer drug development, linking drug and biomarker development, and associated clinical trials methodology. She is also Professor in the Department of Oncology at Queen's University. |
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| Lesley Seymour, MD, FCP (SA), FRCP(C), PhD |
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Dr. Seymour completed training in Internal Medicine, Clinical Haematology & Medical Oncology and went on to complete her PhD, focusing on correlative studies and breast cancer. She took the position of Director of Medical Oncology at the Newfoundland Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. In 1996 joined the Investigational New Drug Program at the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, and currently serves as the Director of the Program. Her primary interests are in early drug development and methodology and clinical research in lung cancer. She also holds the position of Professor and Medical Oncologist in the Department of Oncology at Queens University. |
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| Bingshu Chen, MSc, PhD |
| Senior Biostatistician |
| Dr. Chen joined the Canadian Cancer Trials Group as senior biostatistician and faculty member with the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Queen's University in July 2008. Dr. Chen completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, then spent 4 years at the US National Cancer Institute in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, first as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a Research Fellow. He has spent the last year as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University. His research interests are survival analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials and epidemiology. |
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| Keyue Ding, PhD |
| Senior Biostatistician |
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Dr. Ding received his PhD in Statistics in 1999 from the University of Alberta, and subsequently did postdoctoral training in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Rochester. He joined the NCIC Clinical Trials Group and Department of Community Health & Epidemiology at Queen's in 2001. As a Senior Biostatistician at NCIC Clinical Trials Group, his primary responsibilities are the design and analysis of the cancer clinical trials conducted by the Group. Dr. Ding is also interested in sequential analysis; statistical quality control procedures; and, statistical computing. |
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| Annette Hay, MB ChB, MRCP, FRCPath |
| Senior Investigator |
| Dr. Annette Hay is a Hematologist and clinician scientist within the Department of Medicine, cross appointed to the Department of Oncology, and a Senior Investigator with the NCIC Clinical Trials Group. Having completed medical and hematology training in Scotland, Dr. Hay undertook 2 ½ years of fellowship with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, transitioning to a Senior Investigator position in 2014. In this role her responsibilities include development and conduct of clinical trials for patients with hematological malignancies, economic evaluations of cancer interventions, and improving opportunities for adolescents and young adults with cancer to participate in clinical research. Interests also include exploration of more efficient means to conduct clinical trials, whilst upholding patient privacy and safety. |
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| Christopher O'Callaghan, DVM, MSc, PhD |
| Senior Investigator |
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Dr. O'Callaghan received his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Guelph. He became a Senior Investigator with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group in 2001 and oversees the Gastrointestinal and Brain Site Committees and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology. His research interests are diverse and include clinical trials design and methodology and infectious disease epidemiology. In addition to his duties with Queen's University and the Canadian Cancer Trials Group Dr. O'Callaghan is a member of the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC) Surveillance Subcommittee providing expert advice on infectious diseases to Public Health Ontario. |
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| Wendy R. Parulekar, MD, FRCP(C) |
| Senior Investigator |
| Dr. Parulekar is a graduate of the University of Ottawa Medical School where she also completed residency training in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology (1996). This was followed by a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre. Since 1999, she has held a joint clinical/research position at Queen's University. Within the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, she acts as Senior Investigator for national and international studies in melanoma, as well as carcinoma of the breast, head and neck, and genitourinary system. Other interests include issues relating to clinical trial design and conduct, as well as the challenges and opportunities in clinical trials involving developing nations. |
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| Harriet Richardson, BSc, MSc, PhD |
| Senior Investigator |
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Dr. Harriet Richardson received her PhD in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McGill University, where she studied the natural history of HPV infections and cervical neoplasia. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology and joined the Canadian Cancer Trials Group in 2004 where she is the current Senior Investigator for the Quality of Life Committee and provides oversight for the trials with a focus on breast cancer prevention. Her research also involves tissue and blood banking for future biomarker development projects and evaluating quality of life data from clinical trials. Dr. Richardson who bridges the Division of Cancer Clinical Trials (Canadian Cancer Trials Group) and Cancer Care and Epidemiology in the Queen's Cancer Research Institute also conducts etiologic research primarily focused on understanding specific environmental causes of breast cancer and their interaction with genetic and hormonal factors and elucidating intermediate mechanisms in the causal pathway to breast cancer. |
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| Lois Shepherd, MDCM, FRCP(C) |
| Senior Investigator |
| Dr. Shepherd is a Professor in the Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine. She completed her medical school training at McGill and spent three years in England where her interest in hematology developed. She completed her training as a Hematopathologist at the University of Ottawa and came to Kingston in 1987. Dr. Shepherd is currently the Director of the Transfusion Medicine Service & Immunology at Kingston General Hospital. Since 1989, Dr. Shepherd has worked with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group as a Senior Investigator. Her focus has been in Hematology and Breast Cancer as well as the development of the National Tumour/Tissue Repository associated with the CTG and correlative studies in clinical trials. |
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| Dongsheng Tu, BSc, PhD |
| Senior Biostatistician |
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Dr. Tu is a Senior Biostatistician in the Canadian Cancer Trials Group with appointments in both the Departments of Community Health & Epidemiology, and Mathematics & Statistics. He came to Queen's in 1996 from the Therapeutic Products Directorate of Health Canada. His primary responsibilities are the design, management and analysis of the cancer clinical trials. He is also interested in the methodological research on the development and evaluation of statistical procedures for the design and analysis of cancer clinical trials and maintains an interest in the general mathematical theory of statistics. |
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