Georg Bjarnason

Dr. Georg A. Bjarnason received his MD degree from the University of Iceland in 1979. He moved to Canada in 1983, completing Internal Medicine training at Queen’s University followed by Medical Oncology and Clinical Pharmacology training at the University of Toronto. He has been a Medical Oncologist at Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre since 1990 and is currently Associate Professor at The University of Toronto, Senior Scientist in The Cancer Research Program at Sunnybrook and the inaugural recipient of The Anna-Liisa Farquharson Chair in Renal Cell Cancer Research. His basic research has focused on the impact of circadian rhythms in human biology and cancer medicine. His clinical work /research has focused on patients with Kidney Cancer for over 25 years. He has published over 180 papers and 7 book chapters.