Affiliation: University of Iowa

Dr. Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Iowa. He is a board-certified surgical oncologist and scientist focusing on pancreatic cancer and peritoneal surface malignancy. He is also the Director of Biospecimen Procurement and Molecular Epidemiology Resource Core at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Chan obtained his MD and PhD in Biochemistry at McGill University. He completed his General Surgery residency at McGill University and Complex General Surgical Oncology fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital. His past and current research has been focusing on the areas of cancer mouse modeling, infection-associated cancer progression, cancer immunotherapy and biomarker discovery.