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Ronald Burkes

Medical Oncology
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ron.burkes@sinaihealth.ca

(416) 586 5117

Location
Sinai Health System - Mount Sinai

Ronald Louis Burkes
December, 2007

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Director, Medical Oncology Training Program, University of Toronto, March/96 - Sept/05
Director, Clinical Teaching Unit, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network, July/99 - March/05
Staff Medical Oncologist, Mount Sinai Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital/ University
Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July I, 1985 - present
Acting Head, Division of Hematology/Oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital - 1994 to 1997

Education:

  • Medical School - U of Toronto, 1974 -78
  • Internal Medicine Residency - U of Toronto, 1978 - 81
  • Medical Oncology Residency: Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto 1981 - 83
  • Research Fellowship - U of Southern California, 1983 - 85

Degrees:

  • M.D. - University of Toronto, June 1978
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Sept. 1981
  • FRCP(C) – June 1982

Awards:

  • Outstanding Teaching Awards (Departmental and University) - 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
  • Anderson Award in Program Development from the Wightman-Berris Academy - June, 2000
  • Hasselback Teaching Award, Princess Margaret Hospital - 2002

Research:

  • Member, Toronto Lymphoma Site Group (until Feb/01)
  • Member, NCIC Clinical Trials Group (Lung and G.I. Site groups)
  • Involved in numerous Phase I, II and III Clinical Trials with primary
  • Interest in Lung and G.I. malignancies

Publications:

  • 58 peer reviewed
  • 108 non-peer reviewed
  • 2 book chapters

Presentations:

  • Numerous local, provincial, national and international

Ron Burkes is Professor of Medicine at The University of Toronto and staff medical
oncologist at Mount Sinai Hospital/Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health
Network in Toronto. He was the program director for the medical oncology training
program at the University of Toronto from 1996 to 2005 and director of the Clinical
Teaching Unit at PMH from 1999 to 2005. He has won numerous teaching awards
including departmental and university wide awards on 10 occasions, the Anderson
Award in Program Development and the Hasselback Teaching Award at PMH. He has
presented at many local, provincial, national and international meetings.

His research interests include lung and GI malignancies and he has numerous
publications including 58 peer reviewed, 108 non-peer reviewed and 2 book chapters.