Scientific Advisors
The content of this website was provided by many international
experts, to provide information for patients and to raise awareness of the need for accelerated research in hepatobiliary cancers. CanLiv is grateful to our many colleagues who contributed to this site and who continue to work for the benefit of all hepatobiliary cancer patients:
Ghassan Abou Alfa, M.D.
Internal Medicine, Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Alex Befeler, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
St Louis University, Missouri
Laura A. Dawson, M.D., FRCPC
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Staff Radiation Oncologist, Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Christos Georgiades, M.D., PhD,
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Surgery
Division of Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Jean-Francois Geschwind, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology, Surgery and Oncology
Division of Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Heather Greenlee, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology,
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Judith S. Jacobson, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor of Clinical
Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Tae K. Kim, M.D., FRCPC
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Radiologist, University Health Network
Sunil Krishnan, M.D.
Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology
Director, Gastrointestinal Translational Research
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Mary F. Mulcahy, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Oncology
Northwestern University Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Juan Carlo Roa, M.D. PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Director, Molecular Pathology Laboratory
Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Charles B. Rosen, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, NY
Riad Salem, M.D.
Associate Professor, Interventional Radiology,
Northwestern University Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Abby Siegel, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,
Medical Director of Hepatobiliary Oncology
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Kenneth K. Tanabe, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Surgical Oncology and Director, Liver Surgery Program
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston